And the baby in the crib knew quite as much about it as the toddler in the linsey-woolsey dress, and the toddler knew as much about death as we do today.
Little Robert wore a red linsey-woolsey dress, and was a restless, active youngster with a big head, a round face and a pug-nose.
In the senior year the influence of President Woolsey and Professor Porter was strong for good.
Stand against these taken by President Woolsey and Leonard Bacon.
My summer was given up partly to recreation mingled with duties of various sorts, including an address in honor of President Woolsey at the Alumni dinner at Yale and another at the laying of the corner stone of Syracuse University.
Yet it amazes me to remember that during a considerable portion of our senior year no less a man than Woolsey gave instruction in history by hearing men recite the words of a text-book;--and that text-book the Rev.
Even those of President Woolsey were not inspiring; he seemed paralyzed by the system of which he formed a part.
But the militia, among whom he was a great favorite, rallied around him, andWoolsey and his men were set at defiance.
Does the stranger wear a linsey-woolsey gown, a tartan plaid, and a white cap, and peddle ribbons and laces to the country lasses, eh?
President Woolsey showed true power when he controlled his indignation and let an offending student go free.
More than forty years ago President Woolsey of Yale conceded that the book of Jonah was probably an apologue.
All wore linsey-woolsey dresses, of which four or five yards of cloth were an ample pattern for a single garment, as they had no use for any superfluous polonaises in those times.
The boys were dressed in buckskin breeches and linsey-woolsey shirts, and the girls in homespun gowns of most economical patterns.
It was a woman in a linsey-woolsey dress, corn sun-bonnet, and a huge cane.
He was dressed in a linsey-woolsey frock, with buckskin breeches which were much too short for him.
Captain Woolsey finding that I was on board of the boat, had the kindness to invite me on board the frigate.
Captain Woolsey gave us a boat with twelve oars, under the command of a midshipman, to carry us to Fort Monroe.
Some manufactures are carried on, including linsey-woolsey stuffs and edge tools.
You see I was in my linsey-woolsey frock, not dressed for company.
Remember, my boy, that your father is away with the horse these two days to fetch back a piece of linsey-woolsey cloth and some flour from Boston for me.
The girls wore linsey-woolsey dresses, and the boys tow suits that consisted of two pieces, which in Winter were further added to by hat and boots.
Outside the clothespress, on a peg, hangs a linsey-woolsey every-day gown that shows marks of wear.
Admiral Woolsey took his hand, which was grasped with such violence that it was painful to endure, but he spake no more.
On the third day of the prediction, he invited Admiral Woolsey and another friend to dine with him, at his country seat.
Woolsey made great parade of his preparations to send everything, guns included, back across the portage from the river, to North Bay.
On May 27 Woolsey despatched an officer in a fast pulling boat to reconnoitre the coast, while he himself went with the requisite force to the falls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woolsey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
