How To Use Throstle In A Sentence
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Additionally, the historical development of the site appeared to reflect the progression of spinning technology through the water and throstle frames, and the self-acting mule.
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There were two kinds of throstle spinners, one kind for the warp yarn and one kind for the filling yarn.
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The blackbird and the throstle a-praising Queen and King:
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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A stone along the way shows the nest of the throstle, or thrush, no doubt because the town is sometimes referred to as the’ throstle's nest of England.’
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The _throstle_, the _red-wing_, and the _fieldfare_, which migrated in March, now return; and the _ring-ouzel_ arrives from the Welsh and Scottish Alps to winter in more sheltered situations.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827
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Here is W. S. Gilbert's spoof line, ‘I would as lief be thrust through a thicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle’.
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Where the cotton trade, even with all Arkwright and Crompton's inventions of mule and throstle frames, and the steam-engine wonders of Watt, but for the importation tax of 87 per cent with which the cotton manufactures of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
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But at least the throstle is still there, keeping the memory and the spirit alive and that is very important.
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Mule and ring spinning started in place of the throstle frames.
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Wider cards were introduced, lappers installed, geared speeders adopted, and ring spinning substituted for throstle frames.
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The black oaks jostle and the mistletoe puts up its mitts to vie for the sweet-throated throstle where the black oaks jostle over a back fence and vie for the sweet-throated throstle, seeming no less tense over a back fence than the chestnuts dishing the dirt, seeming no less tense than so many introverts, than the chestnuts dishing the dirt down by the water cooler.
The Best American Poetry 2008
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Coleridge also saw a bird in a larch tree, a ‘throstle’ or thrush in a larch appears in a version of what became his Dejection Ode.
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This applies particularly to the blackbird and throstle.
Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
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Just what one learned from the linnet and the throstle was never disclosed by Wordsworth but that was probably because their lessons were ineffable, like the Beatific Vision.
NATURE
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One man, with opinions pretty well ossified on this subject, having been challenged for his statement that Mrs. Browning was born at Hope End, rushed into print in a letter to the “Gazette” with the countercheck quarrelsome to the effect, “You might as well expect throstles to build nests on Fleet Street 'buses, as for folks of genius to be born in a big city.”
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
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A jolly old throstle is singing away in the elm which overhangs the parson's gate.
Despair's Last Journey
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She stepped ashore straightway, and looked up the land and to the right hand and the left, and saw at once that it was indeed the Isle of Queens, and the house stood trim and lovely as of old time; then she longed somewhat to tread the green meadow a little, for yet young was the day, and she saw nought stirring save the throstle and a few small beasts.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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The throstle and the red-wing are delicate eating.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827
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Midway through the second half, former Bantams skipper Lee Duxbury netted his first goal for the Throstle Nest outfit, again from a Stamer assist.
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Where the throstle is singing, and reindeer are roaming.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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He had carding machinery and 9,000 throstle frame spinning spindles in a three storey building alongside the brook, and 240 looms in a weaving shed alongside Chaddock Lane.
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He knew that on the highest floor a devil would tear the fiber asunder, that it would then go to the scutcher, and have the dust and dirt blown away, then that carding machines would lay all the fibers parallel, that drawing machines would group them into slender ribbons, and a roving machine twist them into a soft cord, and then that a mule or a throstle would spin the roving into yarn, and the yarn would go to the weaving-rooms, where a thousand wonderful machines would turn them into miles and miles of calico; the machines doing all the hard work, while women and girls adjusted and supplied them with the material.
The Measure of a Man