The people of Ireland produced worsted and woollen yarn at a cheaper rate than we could, owing to their poor being able to work on lower terms than those of England.
I should like to be a soldier or a sailor, because I am not brave, but I do feel as if I was fit for something greater than tying up flowers or puzzling through worsted work.
With which conclusion the chuckling old warrior permitted Charlie to wheedle him off into the drawing-room, whither they entered to find the ladies, as usual, absorbed in worsted work and sunk in solemn silence.
The vicar saw him go with puzzled brows and a quick look at his wife, whose head was bent close over her worsted work.
On his feet he wears sabots and coarse worsted socks, covering only the heels and the instep.
His coarse worsted stockings were twisted anyhow in his ill-shaped shoes.
So far they were alike, but the worsted belts of some were scarlet, of others crimson, and of others striped.
This he accomplished by means of the feather of a duck which Frank shot the day before, and a tag from his scarlet worsted belt; and, when finished, it had more the appearance of some hideous reptile than a gay fly.
I suppose, concealed hereabouts, yet I am not apprehensive, that you will be worsted by them.
As it was her custom never to call without bearing tribute in the form of fruit or preserves, she placed a jar of red currant jelly into a little basket, and started for her walk, holding it tightly in her black worsted gloves.
The red worsted mitten came off in his grasp, and he stood eyeing it ruefully while he waited for her answer.
Worsted in this struggle, which was concluded in 1462, Albert made an alliance with his former enemy, George Podebrad, king of Bohemia, a step which caused Pope Paul II.
The trade in worsted and woollen yarns, which formerly furnished employment to a large section of the population, has now completely declined, partly owing to the introduction of Irish worsted.
Well, I'll have a couple of pairs of worsted gloves; no fingers in them, only a thumb.
Let the colored worsted tufts, which must take the place of hair, be bright-red, and the strands of round beads on each side of the necklace of various colors (Fig.
Scrape it flat on one side and slightly rounded on the other, notch the stick at each end, wind the centre with red worsted and paint the bow in bright hues (Fig.
Belt the gown in with scarlet worsted and load the squaw down with strands of colored beads; then seat her on the grass (Fig.
General Sheridan had, with his usual gallantry and confidence, renewed the contest, but had been worsted in his first encounter with the Secretary, and then gave up the struggle.
A cope of black worsted with priest, deacon, and subdeacon, with all their apparel.
A cope of red worsted with flowers, and his vestment of the same, and a deacon of red damask, lacking an albe.
Enticed into the plain, the enemy were generally worsted by the royal troops, but among the recesses of their native rocks the mountaineers had always the advantage.
A pair ofworsted mittens as a present for me, and what is more, I have got them on this moment-look!
If that were true, you would not be wearing that common suit, that rough waistcoat, those worsted stockings, those thick shoes, that ancient wig.
That imbecile of a pit claps hands to the echo, and never sees that we are a mere worsted ball of daintinesses ('Tis true the ball grows a trifle big, but what does it matter?
He could not brook appearing to be worsted in argument, even when, to show the force and dexterity of his talents, he had taken the wrong side.
Tudie was a good deal engrossed with her first large piece of worsted work.
To secure a steady feed various contrivances are adopted, the most common being a wick of cotton or worsted used as a siphon.
In the case of individual bearings, such as those of railway vehicles, a pad of cotton, worsted and horse hair is kept saturated with the lubricant and pressed against the under side of the journal.
She plies her needles, and she plies them well, And Lucy never spends an idle hour; On market days their mits and socks they sell, And thus their balls of worsted turn to flour.
