She spun a fine thread of flax from the distaff that she would later use to make lace. From LearnThat.org.
The distaff is a better weapon for you than the scimitar! ". From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Crimes (Complete)] Reference
Here one comes upon the rooms marked with the so-called "distaff" pattern, supposed to indicate that they were the women's quarters. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two] Reference
"The distaff is a long staff for holding wool, flax, or other fibrous material, from which the thread is drawn out when spinning by hand. From Wordnik.com. [Roc and a Hard Place]
All Father, sat with her golden distaff spinning the clouds. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Then Wainamoinen took the pieces of her distaff and set to work. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
The improvement on the distaff and spindle was the spinning wheel. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
Queen Halcyone dropped her distaff and looked in fear at the king. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Birds] Reference
The belief about the Devil cutting flax left on the distaff links the. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
What followed the distaff and spindle in the development of spinning?. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
Thus are they represented on a medal, each with a distaff in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. From Wordnik.com. [A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren] Reference
The king, to immortalize her memory, hung up her distaff in the Temple of. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference
For that reason the pressure from the distaff side is usually a little heavier. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
Later the distaff was used for holding the bunch of wool, flax, or other fibers. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
Homer describes noble ladies handling the distaff with the spindle belonging to it. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
We have seen that in Neolithic times they were acquainted with the use of the distaff. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Her eyes were cast down; and she was spinning with a small distaff attached to her waist. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Yes, godmother darling, the fates have golden threads on their distaff for you and I to-day.". From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
Yarn for the making of cloth was spun in the earliest times by the use of the distaff and spindle. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
Maid-servants followed with a distaff and wool, intimating that she was to spin as matrons formerly did. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
'But I thought Wainamoinen wasn't to use any wood for his boat except the pieces of the distaff,' said Mimi. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
Next morning, between dark and dawn, the old woman took her distaff and drove the ox into the steppe to graze. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
It was market day; the women were sitting, with distaff and spindle, on each side of the entrance to the Halle. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Spindle and distaff are used in spinning the wool into yarn, which is then knit or woven into cloth on a hand loom. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Evangelical Protestant women hold their own Bible-study groups where the distaff version of history is a major draw. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible's Lost Stories] Reference
This was to make from the splinters of her distaff a little ship, and to launch it into the water without touching it. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
I move through the crowd with difficulty, as many of the distaff versifiers have gigantic egos and yield only grudgingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Sylvia Plath Foreclosure Sale] Reference
Then the spinner drew from the distaff an additional amount of fiber, which was formed by the right hand into uniform strands. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
'They are crazy,' said one old woman, who was holding a distaff in one hand, while she was making woolen thread with the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
To them was intrusted the spinning and management of the thread of life; Clotho held the distaff, Lachĕsis turned the wheel, and. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
"Do you need him more than the Master does?" asked Winfried; "and will you take the wood that is fit for a bow to make a distaff?". From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
Polly too, and she lays down her distaff, welcomes us in, tells us a story of the backwoods, and gives us a taste of her new metheglin. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Their opponents are the Tiger's distaff counterpart, Karrie Webb, paired with none other than newly crowned British Open champ David Duval. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: A Rival For Tiger] Reference
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