Word: interwoven
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hundred yards of costly silk hangings woven at the celebrated establishment of Cheney Bros., for his new mansion in New York. The hand embroidery on this beautiful material cost nearly four thousand dollars. The silk draperies made by the same concern expressly for him are delicately interwoven with threads of pure gold and cost fifty dollars per yard...
...body, except on my feet; occasionally hurled with prodigious velocity into the ceiling, and again cleaving great furrows in the floor; sometimes riding the bicycle, sometimes the bicycle riding me; and once, after a brief but interesting struggle, I found myself, by a succession of wonderful convolutions, so intricately interwoven with the spokes and hub and rubber tire of the front wheel that I seemed to be a natural and necessary part of its construction; while the hind wheel had thrown itself jauntily into the air, and, with its rapid revolutions, was playing sweet &AEolian melodies against the margin...