The very furniture, the red paper with yellow patterns in the drawing-room, the numerous rush-bottomed chairs in the dining-room, the faded wool-work cushions, embroidered with figures of girls and dogs, on the sofa, the branching lamps, and the gloomy-looking portraits on the walls — everything inspired an involuntary melancholy, about everything there clung a sense of chill and flatness. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Once he went out and got a fresh candle, and put it into the tin candlestick, and set it among the china ornaments on wool-work mats. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He was dressed in a rough blue suit of clothes, all torn and much stained by sea water, and his head was covered with a red cap of wool-work which rested lightly on his tangled masses of hair. ❋ Unknown (2003)
People returning from mass saw him at his door in his wool-work slippers. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The next morning he was sitting before a cheerful grate fire in his aunt's private parlor at a certain hotel in Boston, his long legs stretched towards the blaze, and his chin dropped meditatively on his breast, while she, at the other end of the leopard-skin, worked busily on some fleecy white wool-work, occasionally glancing towards his darkly-thoughtful face. ❋ Fannie E. Newberry (N/A)
Curtain, XVIIth century wool-work (Plate VII.), 361 ❋ Grace Christie (N/A)
Annie Price sent the pattern she promised for my wool-work? ❋ Lucy Byerley (N/A)
The open and solid fillings are often used together in the same piece of work; examples of this can be seen on the XVIIth century wool-work curtains, the large scrolling leaves are sometimes partly worked openly and a portion, possibly reflexed, filled in with solid stitches in gradating colour; see for an example Plate VIII. ❋ Grace Christie (N/A)
A.title that suggests an attempt at extortion, but is here applied to _A.picture in wool-work_ by the veteran, T. SYDNEY COOPER, R.A. Of course whatever the artist may ask for it, it will always be "sheep at the price." ❋ Various (N/A)
Unpacking all her exercise books, and notebooks, and stacks of neat examination papers; her lesson books and Czerney's 101 _Exercises for the Pianoforte_; her sewing samples and wool-work; her study of a head in crayon, and waratahs and flannel flowers in oils, and peep of Sydney Harbour in water colours. ❋ Lilian Turner (N/A)
She has ceased playing, and is now sitting by a low table with her lovely head bent earnestly over a lap full of wool-work. ❋ [pseud.] Vera (N/A)
A cry of genuine surprise burst from her lips, as, scattering her mass of wool-work on the floor, she rushed to her guardian's side with joyful greetings. ❋ [pseud.] Vera (N/A)
Green plush chairs stood against the wall; there was a heavy carved book-case, with glass doors, and a general impression of faded sofa covers, large spaces of pale green, and baskets with pieces of wool-work dropping out of them. ❋ Unknown (1915)
"From Cecil's appearance I should say he devoted his time to wool-work," said Mr. Linton. ❋ Unknown (1911)
To keep my feet in the domestic way you made me wool-work slippers, and I had to wear them. ❋ Laurence Housman (1912)
Native eye for colour, when let alone, rarely goes wrong, but alas, "civilisation" is working sad havoc, and hideous parrots and bunches of flowers in Berlin wool-work (as taught in the schools) were among the most admired of the offerings to the Church. ❋ Mary Edith (1909)
In the windows of the basement-shops hung hearts and colored candles, and the grocer at the corner had a great Christmas goblin in his window -- it was made of red and gray wool-work and had a whole cat's skin for its beard. ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)
