Word: woven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woven chase, God and Gabriel had more than these companions. A jovial company of gentlemen, urging great horses and blowing on golden horns, were riding, running, through a wilderness of flowers. Their meek quarry fled through the brilliant fields; behind him, silent and happy, the pursuit increased and came more quickly; a wind stiffened in their flags and made the starry flowers bend across the grass. The white hounds leaned upon their leashes and the bowmen bent their bows. Crouching in a garden at last, the prisoned unicorn gazed upon his followers. They levelled spears amid a thousand flowers...
...Loose-woven fibres matted against mudbanks to keep them from slipping...
...rows of stitching, each stitch about one-fourteenth of an inch long. Weaving ("under and over") has been dispensed with, which means less capital, fewer workers, big savings. All-wool unfinished broadcloth and blankets have been made and according to optimistic reports cannot be differentiated from their loom-woven relatives. The finer fabrics, requiring more rows of shorter stitches to the inch, are still a problem. Toot-Light. Changing the signals automatically at regular time intervals at the intersection of a main highway and a less heavily traveled road would congest the highway for the sake of a possibly empty...
...Love and the Ladies," Mrs. Abbott has refused to mix black or even brown among the paints on her palette. The six short stories which make up the volume are woven of the golden mist of day dreams, and the silken threads of a playful imagination. The characters are frankly of the sort that never were on land nor sea but only in the mind of one who is willing at least occasionally to think of how pleasant things might...
Dennis Clough in the role of the Compte Vriaac shows that he knew what a very indifferent Count would do to a Marquise who jilted him. It is about these two that the story is woven. Eighteen years before the opening of the play, the Marquise left Vriaac with an infant daughter, for no other 0reason except that the Count had never asked her to marry him. Three years previous she did a similar thing to his best friend, only this time it was a son. The Count Vriaac and his friend, ignorant that their children were brother and sister...