How To Use Distaff In A Sentence
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Seventhly, let the young and strong Jews and Jewesses be given the flail, the axe, the hoe, the spade, the distaff, and spindle and let them earn their bread by the sweat of their noses as in enjoined upon Adam’s children …
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Yours truly was the lone distaff wielder on the Review team.
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“that he should leave to men the exercise of arms, and return to his proper station among the maidens of the palace, where a distaff should be again placed in the hand of the eunuch.”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The distaff was a larger, stouter stick, around one end of which the material to be spun was wound in a loose ball.
Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
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Well, at least they've brought back Daniel Jackson, pleasing the distaff fans.
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A distaff is a rod on which wool is wound before being spun into thread.
The Battle of Salamis
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They shared their gaze for a moment longer and then Gwenddien managed to look away, returning once again to the distaff.
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In a token attempt at fairness Frank spoke to distaff staff and the Hill's always-burgeoning florist community to find out where the boys are.
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Here one comes upon the rooms marked with the so-called "distaff" pattern, supposed to indicate that they were the women's quarters.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two
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Now, the old woman sat no more at the door with her distaff -- the lank beggar no longer asked charity in courtier-like phrase; nor on holidays did the peasantry thread with slow grace the mazes of the dance.
III.6
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At first glance, it feels like a distaff version of the same revenge saga, but gradually it reveals itself as even more baroque than its immediate predecessor.
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As yet, she's too much your standard feisty, gutsy, lateral-thinking distaff detective to be viable independently.
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They did not even have spinning wheels in those days, so a spinner took a handful of wool on the end of a stick called a distaff, which she held in her left hand.
Hebrew Life and Times
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While Hollendorfer is relatively unknown in terms of the Kentucky Derby, his work with top-distaffer Hystericalady in recent years is proof-positive that he's not out of his league with an upper-echelon horse.
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Snyder said that although she wasn't familiar with the word distaff, the name Ladies 'Classic made her think it was a race with all-female jockeys.
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He has consigned her to the Keeneland November breeding stock sale but said he would not decide her fate until after the Distaff.
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The distaff decision was delivered to Brenda Raganot.
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He was the great-grandson of John of Gaunt, the third son of Edward III, himself the great-great-grandson of King John, who was descendent from William I on the distaff side via his grandmother Matilda.
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Now that the studios cater to ever younger audiences with ever younger stars in ever goofier vehicles, actors (especially the distaff members of the profession) are considered over the hill at thirty-five.
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A furious effort is under way to develop pills, pumps, patches and gels: distaff versions of the enormously profitable Viagra.
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However, the prospect of an army of females not only having tea in his home, but also planning to stay indefinitely, finally breaks down his resolve and he joins the distaff ranks.
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She is associated with a bridge, a subterranean aqueduct and a magic distaff, one of the symbols of Athene.
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She waited and waited until it felt as if her nerves were being pulled taut as spun wool and whirled dizzily on the distaff.
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Fillies and mares will benefit the most from the increased racing opportunities with seven new races restricted to the distaff division.
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In the distaff category, the Romanian girls won the first three tournaments.
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Instead of opting to cross-enter Devil May Care in both races as had been discussed, it is now Derby or bust for the filly who will attempt to become just the fourth distaffer to wear the roses.
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Then she brought forth a sack of carded wool, and three distaffs, and brought this all over to where we sat.
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As well, the greater efficiency of the spinning wheel probably led to lower piecework rates for all spinning, whether with distaff or wheel, despite the fact that wheel-spun yarn was not always the suitable material.
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One would not expect a letter in the press pointing out the lawsuits about Obama's birthplace to invite retorts by the hyphenated hyperbolist constitutional scholar and his distaff cheerleader.
Undefined
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She is associated with a bridge, a subterranean aqueduct and a magic distaff, one of the symbols of Athene.
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Above the main-mast was a top-mast or topgallant-mast, called the distaff; the yards were hoisted up much as in the present day, and were secured by parrels or hoops to the mast.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
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She has a dairy, and distaffs, for lac, linum, et lanam, and is become a very Sabine.
Selected English Letters
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An eighth looks on the cards, to judge from the talented team of distaffers that will carry the stud's silks.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's just that Tim Davis, Scott Peterman, Dan Torop and Mark Wyse, although as adept as their distaff colleagues, have less in common.
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Often she walked to town with her distaff in her hand, spinning as she went; and sometimes she came back with a small jar of wine balanced on her head, in the fashion of the peasant girls.
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Gnarled and veined like branches of an old olive tree, her hands rested in her lap wrapped around distaff and spindle, paused for the moment from spinning wool from the basket at her feet.
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Stone looked terrific in Western duds playing something of a distaff version of a Clint Eastwood-like gunfighter.
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It’s unfortunate that W waited until his administration was collapsing around him to choose bunker-mates from what used to be called the distaff side.
Nina Burleigh: Hanging with his Home-ettes
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These femdrams are becoming a distaff subgenre.
Times, Sunday Times
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She picked up the distaff and idly worked on spinning the threads once again, as if tartly trying to find an excuse not to look at him.
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This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counterchanged, with: “i, semper melius eris,” — a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in the days when the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on
A Start in Life
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Nor do we get any insight into what drives his distaff nemesis, aside from a wholly generic motivation, and a fuzzy one at that.
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He won Breeders 'Cup races on both of them, as well as a Breeders' Cup on another distaffer, Sacahuista.
Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
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'As well might you bid Madam Toad to spin flax without her distaff.'
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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In the absence of anything more appealing just now, concocting distaff versions of some of the sport's more illustrious bouts from the past is reckoned to be good business.
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The foot on the cradle, the hand on the distaff, a sign of good housewife.
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The daughter of Glacial (by the Boussac-bred Pardal (FR)) became a legend in Scandinavia, ranking as as the finest distaffer ever to race in the region.
Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
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While I'm dishing out the demerits, lest you think it was all distaff damage, know that my father went through a rather extraordinary ice-cream phase.
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The distaff by Barbauld's account is not restricted to women, nor is it a degradation to be employed by men.
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Hercules served Omphale, put on an apron, took a distaff and spun; Thraso the soldier was so submissive to
Anatomy of Melancholy
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And considering that the Guthrie's new complex on the river will present more opportunities to do new work, we can, without undue optimism, expect to see an increase in distaff dramatists in the Guthrie's future.
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As well might you bid Madam Toad to spin flax without her distaff.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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Often the prepared wool was put on a distaff to make it easier to spin.
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While we have land to labor, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench or twirling a distaff.
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The tamer and subduer of monsters and tyrants, Hercules (vanquished by the snares of loue), did not he handle the distaffe in stead of his mightie mace?
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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This sudden burst of sensitivity for the station's distaff set strikes some observers as a bit rich.
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Well, surely that sensible widow was in on whatever distaff discussions went on overhead.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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Alcides made his club a distaff, And spun to please fair Omphale.
The Talisman
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Zenyatta wasn't the only distaffer to pluck the heartstrings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The spindle and the distaff are here mentioned as her honour, while the ornaments of the daughters of Zion are reckoned up to their reproach,
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Still controlling the agitated spool with her left hand, she detaches the end of yarn with the same hand from the spool, and by means of a patent knotter harnessed around her palm she joins together the two loosened ends, one from the little distaff and one from this large spool, so that the two objects are set whirling in unison and the spool receives all the yarn from the distaff.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls
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Or maybe they go for comedy and make Barbie a distaff Don Quixote who sails through life thinking everything is as perfect as her smile (à la the post-modern masterpiece known as The Brady Bunch Movie)?
The Barbie movie: Plastic fantastic or dollpocalypse now? | EW.com
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But the neuroscientists believe they have an answer to this scientific riddle, uncovering a distaff preference for red, hidden atop the universal liking for blue.
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It rankled, this meeting, closed to them in the same way the ranks of management had once been closed to their distaff counterparts.
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Her scratch from the Great State Challenge Distaff also left just four horses in the race, which canceled both show and trifecta wagering in that race and put Sam Houston in danger of taking another hit with a minus place pool.
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Still Doll was thankful for the safe subject, as he went on to mark out what he promised that she should see in the winter -- the swarm of glow-worms, as he called the Pleiades; and 'Our Lady's Rock, 'namely, distaff, the northern name for Orion; and then he talked of the stars that so perplexed him, namely, the planets, that never stayed in their places.
The Herd Boy and His Hermit
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This family bears: party per pale or and sable, an orle counterchanged and two lozenges counterchanged, with: “i, semper melius eris,” — a motto which, together with the two distaffs taken as supporters, proves the modesty of the burgher families in the days when the Orders held their allotted places in the State; and the naivete of our ancient customs by the pun on
A Start in Life
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As well, the greater efficiency of the spinning wheel probably led to lower piecework rates for all spinning, whether with distaff or wheel, despite the fact that wheel-spun yarn was not always the suitable material.
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Poquito á poco hila la vieja el copo (proverb): Little by little the old woman spins her distaff (Slow and sure wins the race)
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)
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You read that right: finally, the distaff gamer can create her own digital counterpart.
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I can't tell you how nice it is to have another distaff member of the house to talk with.
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Made curious, she took the distaff in her hand and began to draw out the thread.
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Simply everyone was there, my dears, from Roy Jenkins to Rab Butler, to Robert Morley to Richard Gordon, to Gordon Richards to the onliest distaff stand-up of the time, wonderful Joyce Grenfell, who told how a distant ancestor, Harrovian WH Grenfell, had been in Oxford's No3 seat in that 1877 dead-heat.
Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker | Frank Keating
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Her profession seems almost engraved in her form as she holds the distaff under her arm, draws the thread skillfully from it, and winds it on the bobbin with her other hand, all the while looking fixedly, eyes not quite focused, at us.
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It was used as a weigh loft, in which the woollen yarn produced by the country women's distaff and spinning-wheel was weighed out to the cap, jacket, or cloth manufacturers.
