In that work the term weaver is used almost unfailingly to describe those who worked in the hand-loom industry. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India] Reference
The story of the uprooted basket weaver is a parable for the kind of vessel that Monique Truong has fashioned in The Book of Salt. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Salt: Summary and book reviews of The Book of Salt by Monique Truong.] Reference
Sparrows, (otherwise known as weaver-finches), maybe. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Otherwise known as weaver-finches in their native Europe and Africa. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
No word weaver shall ever chant my battle deeds in the great hall of Zahur. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
In the tangled jumble occur what might almost be described as weaver's knots. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Spider] Reference
But back when I was working in the mill, the weaver was the only one on production. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Betty and Lloyd Davidson, 1979 February 2 and 15. Interview H-19. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Betty Davidson] Reference
The weaver was a four-foot-tall paca, built like a pear and clad in a simple tunic. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
Anybody might know -- and only look at him -- that the weaver was a half-crazy miser. From Wordnik.com. [Silas Marner] Reference
I was in weaver's wonderland. From Wordnik.com. [Building a foundation to live in Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca] Reference
The weaver is lumped in with the lawyer, &c. From Wordnik.com. [A Bland and Deadly Courtesy] Reference
When you're driving your car are you a 'weaver', lane cutter and speeder?. From Wordnik.com. [James M. Lynch: I Am a Big Fat Jerk] Reference
3: 15-4pm - Walk with the weavers - Teotitlán's community museum invites you to join weaver-led tours. From Wordnik.com. [Oaxaca Tourism Fair - Jan 27] Reference
Her designation was a "weaver" or "factory girl," not a "mill - girl," this term locally being restricted to spinners in the mills. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
The uses Venkataraman makes of "weaver" and caste indicate something of the changed nature of classifications of groups over this period. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India] Reference
The name of the weaver is John Gilroy. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Cat of Castle Town] Reference
She said the faculty of the college prep and art school included many world famous artists such as weaver Robert Kidd. From Wordnik.com. [JewishReview.org] Reference
93 The actual Telugu petition includes the use of the words néta and kharidár, literally "weaver" and "price holder," respectively. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India] Reference
The household of Samuel the weaver lay sleeping soundly. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Light] Reference
He boarded with a weaver, and was often asking questions. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
The rough work of farming made the hands of the weaver less skilful. 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
Davy Fiske was a weaver, and soon after the fox hunt I was apprenticed to Robert. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
There is a great deal of bird-singing that is simply what a weaver would call "filling.". From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
She asked Lillia if she knew Mary Ann Tullee, a weaver in Nanaimo, on the coast near Canada. From Wordnik.com. [Lillia] Reference
Sick to death, David Gray had returned to the cottage of his father, the hand-loom weaver, at. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
Like the weaver, we shall unite, day by day, our threads, and gather them finally into one knot. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Once by the wife of a weaver who came in and pleaded with her husband for part of their children's money. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
The cost of teaching a weaver his work is not four times greater than the cost of teaching a peasant his. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
A native American weaver with work in several craft museums, and a poet, Lillia sat at a loom and demonstrated her methods. From Wordnik.com. [Lillia] Reference
The hand-loom weaver turned whistleblower had been fighting corruption in the local weavers 'cooperative for the past three years. From Wordnik.com. [Violence against whistleblowers in India prompts calls for laws to protect them] Reference
It's hard to imagine a Sri Lankan peasant or a Zimbabwean weaver at such talkfests -- other than at special "grass-roots" exhibits. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Cause Is It, Anyway?] Reference
My life is cut off, as by a weaver: whilst I was yet but beginning, he cut me off: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
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