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...Wells meaning is not that history has ceased to exist, but that it has grown too large. Its picturesqueness and its glamour have been taken over to the province of the novelist. Both are essential just as the warp and the woof in the weaving of a carpet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WARP AND THE WOOF | 6/13/1922 | See Source »

...found by all to be exceedingly useful. How often does one wish that he had saved the report of some court decision, scholar's address a statesman's speech, a mayor's message, divorce statistics, new facts and illustrations! How often these things would work into the warp and woof of a student's task if he could only lay his hand upon them at the proper moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 3/3/1885 | See Source »

...elder woof so rudely torn away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EHEU! EHEU! | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

This is the woof-thread of Pephredo's fate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THREE GRAY SISTERS. | 3/13/1874 | See Source »

...Warp and woof, into cloth of gold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGONY: | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

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