How To Use Wool In A Sentence
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A little wool, a couple of knitting needles and a bit of time and lives can be changed.
The Sun
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Additional, wall, condole can choose deadening very, if mineral wool is sound-absorbing board wait.
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Carolina in 1760, wrote in his _History of North Carolina_ that the women were the more industrious sex in this section, and made a great deal of cloth of their own cotton, wool, and flax.
Woman's Life in Colonial Days
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Country pursuits on offer include sheep-racing, woodcarving with chainsaws, small-bore rifle-shooting, wool-spinning, bee demonstrations, candle-making and ferret-racing.
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Tents and rugs are made from sheep's wool or goats' hair.
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Farming provided food, and their sheep provided wool for cloth.
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The extracts obtained were prefiltered through glass wool and sodium sulfate anhydride and filtered by column chromatography (clean-up performed using sodium sulfate anhydride and Celite 545).
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Those who had struck it rich wore black woollen trousers and Napoleon boots, and sported silk sashes and gaily coloured kerchiefs.
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Put on your red wool cardigan - it'll be nice and warm.
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These need to be kept tight, sharp and limited, because the woollier they get, the more endangered.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the case of meat sheep versus wool sheep, wool is usually around $10 a kilo, and meat $2 a kilo.
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When you pull a needleful through a hole, the wool is correctly positioned on a stretched canvas.
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One of my hobbies is lampworking, and an old sock stuffed with lambswool and then covered in a fire-retardant sleeve works well for cushioning my elbows when I work!!
Turn Old Socks Into Foot Odour Killers | Lifehacker Australia
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Pumas roam these passes, hunting vast areas for grey fox, upland geese or guanacos, the wild and woolly relative of the llama.
Globe and Mail
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The skin wound was dressed with gauze, and sterile plaster wool was applied.
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(Members of the Other Place will appreciate the little in-joke about the Woolsack.) Previous
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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You are on a globe that looks like a crystal ball or a marble in a light bed of cotton wool.Sentencedict
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I'd wear this dress with some thick woollen tights and ankle boots.
The Sun
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Their elaborate fabrics, woven on looms from cotton and alpaca wool, are known today because they were used in a type of mummification process.
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Rub down with fine wire wool.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tightly woven wool, wool melton, felted or boiled wool, leather and suede along with faux leather and suede all can be clipped, snipped, slashed or punched without fraying.
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Made from bright orange, green or pink wool-covered foam, the seat perches upon thin steel legs.
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Two shrubs here are desert broom and burro bush, while wildflowers include desert honeysuckle, with long, tubular, brick-red flowers, and woolly feverfew, with white or greenish flowers.
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It is understood Woolworths' analysis of ALH's unaudited figures will show the pub company missed its prospectus forecast in relation to gaming and on-premise liquor revenue.
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Wool is fluffy and airy so it serves as an insulator to prevent the heat of the body from escaping.
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Typically, American stocking factories spun their own wool into yarn or thread.
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Apparently they're up to here in woolies, but nobody ever remembers that homeless men need underpants too.
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The child should wear layered natural fibers and wool socks, weather permitting.
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Remove rust by rubbing the affected area with super fine steel wool or a raw potato that has been dipped in whiting.
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With all the warm woollies tucked away in your wardrobe along with mothballs for company, it is time you get yourself a brand new wardrobe.
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Guardian | Nazi eugenics, Virginia Woolf and the morality of designer babies A grande virtude do nazismo está em ter enterrado de vez com os ideais de eugenia.
Leituras
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It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.
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It has deservedly won the best picture Golden Globe and will no doubt inspire a new generation to read Virginia Woolf.
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To shape the ends of wool-skewers, i.e., to _point_ them, requires a degree of skill; any one can _rough-hew_ them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
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Journal in 1839, at about the same time the term OK appeared: “That lawyer has been trying to spread the wool over your eyes.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Apple candy, cotton wool, melon and a mere hint of liquorice.
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Saber-toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, and many other big, shaggy mammals are widely thought to have died out around the end of the last ice age, some 10,500 years ago.
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The army's Quartermaster Corps, unaccustomed to providing for the needs of a wartime force, had disbursed flimsy, floorless tents; as a result, Grant and the rest of the four - thousand - man force slept in the cold mud, protected from the elements by thin woolen blankets.
'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848'
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I lie under a tartan rug and my fingers twist and plait its fringe; plait, untwist, plait again: the wool is rough against my fingertips.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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Silk was used with wool for contrast.
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The wildflowers, many of which bloom in May, include waterleaf, wild ginger, red trillium, Jack-in-the-pulpit, smooth and woolly blue violet, Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, and enchanter's nightshade.
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But a full account will need to supplement the Woolf diagnosis, as we shall see.
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Small as are the capitula of this flower, its seeds or achenia are armed with awns having reflexed hooks scarcely visible to the naked eye; it is these that are found so troublesome among the wool.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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They are usually applied to wool and silk in a neutral or slightly alkaline bath; on cotton they are fixed by means of tannate of antimony or tin.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891
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Caps are 12.5 oz. wool blend and have buckram-backed front panels, pre-curved visors, and grey undervisors.
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The heat contracted the woollen garment
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One of these species, the woolly rhino, is clearly shown in the cave paintings of early humans.
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He received the wool in huge bales and then graded it according to length and fineness, before despatching it to the cloth-maker or dealer.
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On land, they plundered logwood, a tree used to produce a dye used in the woolen industry.
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Sponge the woolly bits with neat washing-up liquid, suggests a reader who says her father used to deal with greenfly on his roses in this way.
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It also states, as I mentioned at the start of my speech: ‘In a referendum held in April-May 2002, 96.9% of wool grower respondents voted in favour of winding up the Wool Board.’
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The F.W. Woolworth Company reported profit margins of 20 percent but actually lowered the wages of salesgirls in its stores, citing the need for belt tightening.
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No-one ever said of Kallis, as Cardus did of Woolley, that his batting is the stuff of "soft airs and fresh flavours" nor does it even contain "the brevity of summer" which also accounted for Woolley's loveliness.
The Kallis Conundrum
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The first Humphrey’s latitu-dinous baver with puggaree behind, (calaboose belong bigboss belong Kang the Toll) his fourinhand bow, his elbaroom surtout, the refaced unmansionables of gingerine hue, the state slate umbrella, his gruff woolselywellesly with the finndrinn knopfs and the gauntlet upon the hand which in an hour not for him solely evil had struck down the might he mighthavebeen d’Est-erre of whom his nation seemed almost already to be about to have need.
Finnegans Wake
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The organisers would appreciate any donations of knitting wool, patterns, knitting needles, crochet hooks or any old material.
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All standard stuff and not a batt of sheep's wool or a straw bale in sight.
Times, Sunday Times
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In those states, people wear light clothing during the summer, and they need heavy wool or fur clothing in the winter.
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We've got hay, wool and lamb buyers and sellers all lined up and the sane are beginning to recognize the fundies for what they are.
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The President, backed by trusted advisers, some of them dyed-in-the-wool oilmen, called immediately for increased energy production.
BARRACUDA 945
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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women? Virginia Woolf
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Up to this contact with Price, and indeed for some time after, I had regarded group selection as so ill-defined, so woolly in the uses made by its proponents, and so generally powerless against selection at the individual and genic levels, that the idea might as well be omitted from the toolkit of a working evolutionist.
David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XIII: Hamilton Speaks
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[Page 67] * This accomplished comment to human nature was the widow of the late Willoughby lord Middleton of Woolaton in Nottinghamshire, and wife of Edward Miller Mundy, Esq. of Shipley in the county of Derby, by whom her ladyship had one daughter now living.
Poems, by Mrs. M. Robinson
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You can do without the cotton wool if you have thick or curly hair.
Times, Sunday Times
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Several of Woolrich's hunting garments are made of Squires Hightech's Saddle-Cloth, a soft, quiet, stormproof and windproof fabric.
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The house's owner, the elderly founder of the local wool and mohair trading warehouse, passed away and left the place to his grandson.
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woolly-headed ideas
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As a self-confessed occasional HYS commenter on the BBC, it seems even their 'moderators' are tarnished by the bias and the 'house rules' are taken from their 'little labour book of creating wooly, abusable, and loopholed and rules and laws'.
OPEN THREAD
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It's like trying to hold a lump of jelly with knitting wool.
Times, Sunday Times
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The EPCH also plans to include a complete product group of floor coverings made of natural fibres including coir, jute, cotton, silk and wool.
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I was greeted by grey bleakness and a scratchy woolen blanket and a hard wooden floor.
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Today, Merino wool is taken from sheep and lambs in Australia and New Zealand as well.
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Later wool was packed in small bales of 45 kg and the plane was able to carry four or five per flight.
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The oldest professional law enforcement cadre is the new Woolworths. on May 29, 2009 at 1: 10 pm uphilldowndale
Motorcycle Daydream « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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I stripped off my sodden socks and my snowsuit, already reeking of wet wool, and left them on the radiator.
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Rather, the essay should be read as a complexly equivocal attack on a whole ideology of theory as "non-sense," in which the bitingly direct sentence is designed to replace Continental wooliness.
Archive 2008-11-01
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He wears a long, white cotton thobe, bleached and pressed to a dazzling crispness, and a red-checked ghutra headdress held in place by the black agal headband, the wool cord once used by the Bedouins to hobble their camels.
Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise
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These high elevation communities are naturally subject to increased atmospheric moisture, cooler temperatures, and higher winds, but also now suffer from the effects of acid rain deposition, which tend to be exacerbated in high elevation communities, and from the depredations of an introduced homopteran insect, the wooly adelgid (Adelges spp.).
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
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Most men covered their heads with flat wool caps or skullcaps or turbans in a variety of sizes and colours.
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Sir John Herschel compared it to a surface studded over with flocks of wool, or to the breaking up of a mackerel sky when the clouds of which it consists begin to assume a cirrous appearance.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
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Among the common wildflowers are one-flowered cinquefoil, woolly lousewort, alpine willowherb, three saxifrages, and an Indian paintbrush.
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And this lamb needs ewe ... the adoption agency that's proud of its woolly ways.
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Spinning wheels lined the walls and at the central tables others sorted, hackled and carded the wool.
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A wool jacket complements the silk trousers and provides an interesting contrast in texture.
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He's got more cheekbone than Snoop, bloodshot and rheumy eyes, and he's wearing a scruffy black overcoat and woolly hat.
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Even though I wasn't wearing my label, a woman in WAAF uniform came up to me and said, `Henry Woolgar?
TIME OF THE WOLF
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In winter we wear woollen clothes to keep us warm.
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None of these were terribly successful over any sort of long run period, though they did cause a fair amount of suffering by limiting economic freedom and growth. woolie says:
Matthew Yglesias » Centrally Planned Suburbia
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Wear them with a pair of boot-cut distressed designer jeans, a thick gray wool turtleneck, and a beige or brown corduroy blazer.
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We specialize in formal suit, water processing casual suit (without shoulder pad or chest liners), 100% or imitation wool simple suit and jacket, cotton-padded clothes.
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It was a mini Wall Street bonanza bull market as these baubles, nicked or begged from Mum, exchanged hands many times over in one fifteen-minute break, moving from one cotton wool-lined matchbox to another.
In the Frame
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An unusual pairing during Art Basel Miami Beach was the jointly held event between Pringle of Scotland, the design house for Scottish woolies, and Serpentine Gallery, one of the most respected galleries in London.
Kiša Lala: ART AND FASHION: Pringle Of Scotland And London's Serpentine Gallery Collaborate To Promote Scottish Artists
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The fabrics he used were predominantly tweeds and wools in countryside colours: moss green, rust brown and autumnal red.
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He worked to make a synthetic material that duplicated the burs clinging to his wool socks.
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Pilot Cloth is a coarse, heavy, stout twilled woolen that is heavily napped and navy blue.
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The team discovered that pieces of cotton wool dabbed with pyrazine and left next to chicken cages led to a five to ten percent increase in the egg mass of Leghorn chickens.
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Don't let your mind wander [ be woolgathering ] while working.
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Distribute the wool evenly across the entire card until the teeth are barely showing through.
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Stock up on key fabrics like cotton, linen, silk and lightweight knits in the summer months, and wool, cashmere and merino knits in the winter.
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He adds that the town of Tekrur was a market where the Moors exchanged wool, glass and copper for slaves and gold.
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Now let's hope that the Lib Dems in Oldham East can pull their fingers out and finally unseat Mr Woolas next time because in my opinion, if there is any new Labour MP who deserves to lose his seat, it's Mr Woolas.
Phil Woolas - New Labour Toady gets does of his own medicine
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mothproof woollen clothes during the summer
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# -- Until within a comparatively recent time black was dyed on wool solely by the use of logwood, combined with a few other natural dye-stuffs, such as fustic, indigo, etc., but of late the researches of colour chemists have resulted in the production of a large number of black dyes obtained from various coal-tar products.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
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I love the mix of old and new furnishings, the sense of history in flagstoned kitchen and ancient Aga, the jumble of meadow mixed plants in gardens, the tactile wools and silks and cottons, the worn wooden floors.
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Also like The Hours, which reworked Virginia Woolf, this narrative triplex is built on a bookish foundation: the poetry and ontology of Walt Whitman.
New Fiction
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Various species of _Lecanora_, particularly _L. tartarea_, known as cudbear, are used in dyeing woollen yarn.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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You can't wrap your children in cotton wool for ever.
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With a quilted layer under a tailored wool coat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Try changing feather pillows, woollen blankets and woollen clothing to cotton or synthetic materials.
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The man, half stooping, caught the woolen bashlik that had fallen from his head.
The Centaur
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Charter marks flared under the cloak, briefly visible even through the tightly woven wool.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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A thin nylon wind shirt worn next to your skin or over an undershirt will act as a vapor barrier and trap body heat more efficiently than a wool union suit or down jacket.
Winter Survival Quiz by Field & Stream's Keith McCafferty
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When they considered we had collected enough we would swap our woollies for the potatoes.
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Look for all-season fabrics like wool gabardine, cotton blends or rayon crepe.
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The dried sample is then transferred to a small thistle-headed funnel which has been cut off from its stem, and the opening plugged with a little glass wool, and round the top rim of which a piece of fine platinum wire has been fastened, in order that it may afterwards be easily removed from the Soxhlet tube.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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This colourful handmade woollen wear come in green, red, ivory and black.
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In addition to the sheep and wool market, Hawkshead was well known for its cattle market.
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When tartar, argol, oxalic acid, lactic acids and other assistants of an organic nature are used, then a different effect is obtained, the bichromate is completely decomposed, and a deposit of chromium oxide formed on the wool.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
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At night it became so cold that some of the men would sleep in woolly hats.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
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This limitation reduces wool growth on sheep, milk production by dairy animals, and meat quality.
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All said that the wool was a potential health and safety hazard because it could not be sterilised and could harbour germs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The moccasin is made of a sheep hide reversed to give the comfort of wool and the false impression of security by the leather outer.
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Cotton thread produced on spinning wheels or spinning jennies was not generally strong enough to be used as the warp as well as the weft of cloth, which meant that it had to be interwoven with linen or wool yarn.
'The Industrial Revolutionaries'
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Wakefield, the nattiest lad at Whitson Tryste, Wooler Fair, Carlisle
Chronicles of the Canongate
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I got out of the car and crunched across the snow, each breath of cold air scouring my lungs like steel wool.
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The child should wear layered natural fibers and wool socks, weather permitting.
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I would go to sleep in my sweatsuit, wool socks, and even a balaclava.
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In short, our elite athletes often live a life wrapped in cotton wool and protected from the vagaries of growing up.
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His feet were now covered only by his wool socks, which would make less noise, but make footing slippery on the marble floor.
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For many doctors, retinopathy—microaneurysms, haemorrhages, "hard" lipid exudates, microinfarcts of the retinal nerve fibre layer (cotton wool spots)—is synonymous with diabetes.
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All the women at present were busy knitting woollen garments; some were learners and did their work slowly and painstakingly.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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These are skills all honed at Woolworths, which he joined as a management trainee after leaving school.
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The fustanella, or Albanian kilt, was common dress for men until the 1400s. Common villagers and rural people wore a fustanella made from coarse linen or wool; more affluent men wore silk.
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So, okay, he must have left sometime after 1100 hours G.M.T. but before 1145 hours G.M.T., at almost exactly which time I returned to the cabin and brushed as well as I could all the particles of snow still clinging to my wool jacket and gloves and knitted ski cap, sea-green, and my blue jeans and rugged, well-worn work boots.
Self-Destruction, Vol. 1
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Dull, padded beige jackets and shapeless viscose dresses will go, in favour of the sheepskin gilets and long woollen cardigans sported by the rest of the high street.
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A focal point of her final collection is a woollen skirt, blouse and long coat - all in neutral colours - with a cream silk organza overcoat on top.
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From the late 14th century until the early 16th century woolmen based in Northleach collected the wool from Turkdean for sale to London merchants and the agents of European wool buyers whose appreciation of the quality of Cotswold wool percolated into significantly increased prosperity for the Northleach merchants and the sheep-based farmers of the surrounding parishes.
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I've already got some wellies, plus five woolly hats and upwards of a dozen pairs of hiking socks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The book includes many references to Joseph-Jerôme Lalande's L'Art de faire le maroquin and Quemiset promises to improve on that work. 17 reference The preface also connects this book to publications on dyeing cloth, suggesting that Quemiset will organize the subject of dyeing leathers and establish its rules as Hellot's, Macquer's, and Le Pileur d'Apligny's books had done for wool, silk, and cotton, respectively. reference
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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The lightweight vest is made from a Sportwool inner which wicks moisture away from the body and transfers it to the front of the garment producing a cooling effect.
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This initial collection features 15 foulards in five sizes, crafted from fine silks and wools.
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Lightweight wools, silks, cottons, and rayons work well together.
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With droughts, rust, rabbits, Bathurst burr, locusts, low wheat and wool prices and a depression his parents had to struggle to provide for their large family.
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The 11.9-micron bale of wool was bought by the HYX Group at auction in Sydney for $675,000.
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He also repeated Judge Woolsey's famous remark about Ulysses being ‘emetic rather than erotic’ though he did not refer the court to his source.
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His coat was woven from wool of many colors.
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Which is the nearest fossil relative of a chicken: pterodactyl, tyrannosaurus or woolly mammoth?
Times, Sunday Times
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I already struggle not to feel the wool is being pulled over my eyes, or perhaps (to be kinder) I simply feel that there is a strong sort of wishful thinking going on by those involved; so for the Church to indulge in this sort of cosmeticism when the miraculousness should be allowed its own self-evidence - it makes me feel as if I'm being patronized.
Incorruptible and Forever
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Begin by placing a small piece of wool on the left card that should be lying on your lap.
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There were people in warm, woollen scarves and thick, tall boots, and there were others in large, heavy overcoats and fluffy ear muffs.
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February 24th, 2009 at 3: 23 pm it would be hard to find a southern governor who is not a woolhat wingnut professional backslapper.
Matthew Yglesias » Phil Bredesen Joins Forces With Dixie Wingnuts to Stick it to the Unemployed
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The shuttle relay team of Woolridge, Rorvig, Begany and Boldt ran posted a time of 58.88 seconds in the prelims, which is one of the top 15 times in the country.
Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
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Unlike other luxurious wools such as cashmere and pashmina, shahtoosh is produced from the fine, inner hairs of the Tibetan antelope - which cannot be shorn from the animal.
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When carding the teased wool, a card is held in each hand.
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A houndstooth wool anchored the season, with touches of dusty rose and pale lemon.
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Coles is later than Woolies in revamping its logistics chain, so the gains aren't apparent yet.
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Visibility is affected by the plankton levels and thermoclines that refract the light so that an otherwise perfect image can get a woolly edge.
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This fabulous wool Audrey design costs 110 per sq metre.
Times, Sunday Times
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Five keen snappers received free photography tuition from a professional in a project supported by the Greater Woolwich neighbourhood renewal panel.
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Why do you have aureate long hair woollen cloth?
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Key materials for winter 2005 include mohair, wool, voile and leather.
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The officers of the amphitheatre were still employed in the task of fixing the vast awning (or _velaria_) which covered the whole, and which luxurious invention the Campanians arrogated to themselves: it was woven of the whitest Apulian wool, and variegated with broad stripes of crimson.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
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Perkin, with the encouragement of some older entrepreneurs, soon proved that the new color, mauveine, was fast in wool and silk.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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Paul Woolley of the London School of Economics has suggested that momentum might result from an agency problem.
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If his jackets weren't wool tweed, they had patches on the elbows.
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Exports from the city of Arcadia included wool, wax, silk, and kermes, destined for Venice via Zakynthos.
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Article 3 The categories of agriculture subject to the administration of import tariff quotas are: wheat, corn, rice, bean oil, colza oil, palm oil, sugar, cotton, wool woolen silver.
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Her interests were sewing, knitting, cooking, gardening, carding wool for quilts and making feather pillows.
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Our tents are filled with clothes, down jackets, sleeping bags, woollen gloves and socks, snow boots, and tonnes of packed cream - sun-block, moisturiser, lip balm and cleanser - as well as the routine climbing paraphernalia of ropes, crampons, harnesses, descendeurs and carabiners.
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It is a 70-m long linen hanging, embroidered with coloured wools.
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So she decided to trek for help, wearing a parka coat, a woolly hat and hiking boots.
Times, Sunday Times
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Teeth from a woolly rhino were also found, with a reindeer antler and a deer bone that had been split to extract the marrow.
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She peered out at the world from beneath a yellow straw hat - a "boater," with circular crown and flat brim - wore a green wool muffler looped around her neck, and was lost in the immensity of Khristo's sheepskin jacket while he made do with a heavy sweater.
NPR Topics: News
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Several window manufacturers now sandwich foam separators, nylon spacers, and insulation materials such as poly-styrene and rockwool between the glass inside their windows.
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Over silk georgette, cashmere and wool, Napa once again becomes the leading material of the collection embroidered with purling and little glass pearls and studs.
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Their highly individual woven fabrics, made from wool and organza, are also sold through outlets such as Liberty and Co.
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Soon after the melt unusual looking Ice Age mega-mammals like woolly mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed lions, and bison roamed the prairies.
Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Our Wild Prairies
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All materials (cellulose Soxhlet thimbles, silica wool, vials) were cleaned with analytical grade organic solvents prior to use.
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They make cloth, all cotton; cloth of cotton warp and wool filling called drugget; dimity, a heavy cotton used for coverlets; a yarn jean which has wool warp and filling, and cotton jean which is cotton warp and wool filling; homespun is a heavy cloth, of cotton and wool mixed.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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And there's always something; the pattern calls for six yards of 60" wide wool, without nap, and you have five yards of 60" wide wool, with nap; there's not enough material for one of the sleeves; the material ravels as soon as you cut into it; you burn a hole in the bodice of the wedding dress two days before the wedding ... there's always something, and it's almost always salvageable.
Necessity gets a card from Invention round about May every year - A Dress A Day
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That's the kind of wooly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten.
Buffy Quote of the Week
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Cottonwool balls of approximately 3cm diameter were used to measure salivation before and after chemotherapy.
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Once Frigga filled my hands with spindle and wool, and my mind with these Thirteen Goddesses, I've found life too full for heartbreak and illness.
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Paul disappeared upstairs, and came back down with a dry sweater and a thick woollen blanket.
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Traditional hand-knit wool sweaters start at around $200.
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John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
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Most adult sheep were wethers (castrated rams) raised mainly for wool.
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The Carrizoso plateau had been sacred ground, and it was unsupposable that it could ever be desecrated by the trampling hoofs and scissor noses of these woolly abominations.
Heart's Desire
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If your rug has to be stored for any extended period of time, we strongly suggest that it be cleaned and mothproofed, as a dirty rug provides an attractive home for wool-eating insects.
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He wore a baseball cap, light-coloured jogging bottoms, trainers and a big woolly duffel-type coat with a hood.
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He says world economic growth is the strongest it's been in 15 years, and wool prices are more competitive against cotton and synthetics.
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Beaver cloth is a heavy woolen overcoating, napped and pressed down to resemble beaver fur.
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In those days, the LibDems were (in the nicest possible way) regarded as slightly woolly and synonymous with wholemeal bread and unbleached linen.
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Woolwich challenged by judicial review the validity of the particular regulations which had this effect.
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In the chilly evenings, ridiculously seated on striped, collapsible beach chairs that blew over the second we got up, we cooked and ate outside wrapped in warm fleeces and woolly hats.
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This sort of woolly headed thinking that believes only left-leaning intellectuals know what's best for us belongs back in the Dark Ages.
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Using primarily wools and specialty yarns varied in texture and color, the couple creates fine-art wall hangings.
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It must be the wooly looking oversized beanies.
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The only things she took with her were a gold bangle and a soft, pink woolly hat with a bow that she loved and wore constantly.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘The firm which makes them fills the stout canvas covers with kapok, a substance like silky cotton wool.’
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This paper introduces the process of prefabricating and installation, technical property for the rock wool sandwich exterior wall board with thermal insulation, fireproof and pressure releasing.
