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    wool


    1. Wel I say normal; I sat with a wool hat stretched to its limit over a large bandage whilst


    2. The day was fine and warm but I was wearing a wool hat to cover my scars – rather odd in the circumstances so I was


    3. A Crimewatch reconstruction appeals for the “the sweating, suspicious looking man in a wool hat” to come


    4. and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and


    5. shepherds feed the flocks? Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock


    6. His hair was an inch layer of rich-earth colored wool over his head and chin


    7. ‘She wants to wrap you up in cotton wool, Liz


    8. Okay, so during that time I also had to deal with getting out of bed (when did my legs turn to cotton wool?) and being taken along to the toilet (amazing how quickly one can get out of the habit of the most commonplace activities)


    9. He only wanted to talk about the land, how the sheep were doing and how much wool had been produced that season … I couldn’t understand why he was interested in that when he’d been seeing the world and doing exciting things


    10. I have already admired it – a shade of wool to match her name … there are a few grey hairs showing round the back of his ears, I think to myself then I suddenly realise that he’s watching me in the rear view mirror with a faint smile on his face and blush violently … the smile becomes a wicked grin as he replies to something Wally is saying

    11. Wrapped as I was in the cotton wool of solitary confinement, unable as I was to express any of my thoughts in concrete form or to engage in conjecture with another rational human being, nonetheless I spent hours imagining faces and clothes and names to accompany the hollow tapping sounds in the night


    12. and indolent snags of wool on skeleton stunts of elm,


    13. Clothes drop to the floor, a rumpled hill of cotton and wool,


    14. in thick wool layers, to clear his head


    15. K sits, wrapped up in cotton wool, taking a year off, on her tumour holidays


    16. “Ted, you can’t pull the wool over our eyes, you know”, they both said


    17. His high forehead had just enough texture to show wisdom and dignity, his halo of greying wool neatly trimmed a curl and a half deep


    18. Helen Roach rapidly became a recluse, a shambolic, unkempt creature living a half-life of darkness in her bedroom, where she filled her ears with cotton wool buds when sober enough to remember that the worm was turning in her poor, throbbing skull


    19. There was a bench on one wall, with a pitcher and basin on it, along with some towels and fuzzy, colorful wool blankets


    20. This was upholstered with a few scratchy wool blankets

    21. “Ted, you can’t pull the wool over our eyes, you know”, they


    22. darkness in her bedroom, where she filled her ears with cotton wool


    23. cotton wool in which it had nestled


    24. removed his sodden wool coat and muddy boots and


    25. Nothing much makes any sense and her head feels as if it is wrapped in cotton wool, but she is rising, she is cognisant


    26. The cotton wool in her head is surprisingly strong, but she slowly starts to surface


    27. As she did, a small ball of wool rolled into the middle of the floor


    28. The only eyes, he was pulling the wool over were his own


    29. Other than the occasional coat of chain mail, the people wore no armor but were dressed in garments of wool and fur


    30. The wool of England, which in old times, could neither be consumed nor wrought up at home, found a market in the then wealthier and more industrious country of Flanders, and its price afforded something to the rent of the land which produced it

    31. PS Wire wool is best'


    32. Her ears felt as though stuffed with cotton wool


    33. The quantity of wool or of raw hides, for example, which any country can afford, is necessarily limited by the number of great and small cattle that are kept in it


    34. The same causes which, in the progress of improvement, gradually raise the price of butcher's meat, should have the same effect, it may be thought, upon the prices of wool and raw hides, and raise them, too, nearly in the same proportion


    35. In countries ill cultivated, and therefore but thinly inhabited, the price of the wool and the hide bears always a much greater proportion to that of the whole beast, than in countries where, improvement and population being further advanced, there is more demand for butcher's meat


    36. Though, in the progress of improvement and population, the price of the whole beast necessarily rises, yet the price of the carcase is likely to be much more affected by this rise than that of the wool and the hide


    37. But the market for the wool and the hides, even of a barbarous country, often extending to the whole commercial world, it can very seldom be enlarged in the same proportion


    38. In England, however, notwithstanding the flourishing state of its woollen manufacture, the price of English wool has fallen very considerably since the time of Edward III


    39. There are many authentic records which demonstrate that, during the reign of that prince (towards the middle of the fourteenth century, or about 1339), what was reckoned the moderate and reasonable price of the tod, or twenty-eight pounds of English wool, was not less than ten shillings of the money of those times {See Smith 's Memoirs of Wool, vol


    40. In the present times, one-and-twenty shillings the tod may be reckoned a good price for very good English wool

    41. The money price of wool, therefore, in the time of Edward III


    42. In those ancient times, a tod of wool would have purchased twice the quantity of subsistence which it will purchase at present, and consequently twice the quantity of labour, if the real recompence of labour had been the same in both periods


    43. This degradation, both in the real and nominal value of wool, could never have happened in consequence of the natural course of things


    44. First, of the absolute prohibition of exporting wool from England: secondly, of the permission of importing it from Spain, duty free: thirdly, of the prohibition of exporting it from Ireland to another country but England


    45. In consequence of these regulations, the market for English wool, instead of being somewhat extended, in consequence of the improvement of England, has been confined to the home market, where the wool of several other countries is allowed to come into competition with it, and where that of Ireland is forced into competition with it


    46. As the woollen manufactures, too, of Ireland, are fully as much discouraged as is consistent with justice and fair dealing, the Irish can work up but a smaller part of their own wool at home, and are therefore obliged to send a greater proportion of it to Great Britain, the only market they are allowed


    47. Wool was commonly paid as a subsidy to the king, and its valuation in that subsidy ascertains, at least in some degree, what was its ordinary price


    48. They had probably been sold with the wool


    49. The nature of the commodity renders it not quite so proper for being transported to distant markets as wool


    50. Whatever regulations tend to sink the price, either of wool or of raw hides, below what it naturally would he, must, in an improved and cultivated country, have some tendency to raise the price of butcher's meat














































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    Synonyms for "wool"

    fleece wool woolen woollen made of wool gabardine worsted yarn fuzz

    "wool" definitions

    a fabric made from the hair of sheep


    fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving


    outer coat of especially sheep and yaks