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1. Deciding that, as it is my day off, I shall wear something different, I trawl through the wardrobe, digging out a flattering, mid-calf length woollen skirt in a pretty shade of deep blue that Nick hasn’t seen yet … with a pretty light blue top and my best gold necklace (a present from the school when I left) it would look smart and it would make me feel partyish
2. are shod in heavy woollen socks that shuffle
3. He inspects my sensible hosen and warm woollen vullejakt approvingly
4. Around his waist he wrapped a thick woollen scarf to comfort his kidneys and hold up his trousers
5. mattress, pulled his breeches and coat on over his woollen
6. But the same number of spinners or weavers will every year produce the same, or very nearly the same, quantity of linen and woollen cloth
7. That the price of linen and woollen cloth is liable neither to such frequent, nor to such great variations, as the price of corn, every man's experience will inform him
8. The great improvements in the coarser manufactories of both linen and woollen cloth furnish the labourers with cheaper and better clothing; and those in the manufactories of the coarser metals, with cheaper and better instruments of trade, as well as with many agreeable and convenient pieces of household furniture
9. common sorts of manufactures, such as those of plain linen and woollen cloth, computed at an
10. will annually work up very nearly the same quantity of linen and woollen cloth
11. That of weaving plain woollen is somewhat different ; but the difference is so
12. 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
13. 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
14. Both in the coarse and in the fine woollen manufacture, the machinery employed was much more imperfect in those ancient, than it is in the present times
15. Secondly, the use of several very ingenious machines, which facilitate and abridge, in a still greater proportion, the winding of the worsted and woollen yarn, or the proper arrangement of the warp and woof before they are put into the loom ; an operation which, previous to the invention of those machines, must have been extremely tedious and troublesome
16. The smith erects some sort of iron, the weaver some sort of linen or woollen manufactory
17. Spanish wool was the material, not of the first woollen manufacture of England, but of the first that was fit for distant sale
18. The prohibition of the importation of foreign woollen is equally favourable to the woollen manufacturers
19. But a great part of all the different branches of our woollen manufacture, of our tanned leather, and of our hardware, are annually exported to other European countries without any bounty, and these are the manufactures which employ the greatest number of hands
20. When, either by the monopoly of the home market, or by a bounty upon exportation, you enable our woollen or linen manufacturers to sell their goods for somewhat a better price than they otherwise could get for them, you raise, not only the nominal, but the real price of those goods; you render them equivalent to a greater quantity of labour and subsistence; you increase not only the nominal, but the real profit, the real wealth and revenue of those manufacturers ; and you enable them, either to live better themselves, or to employ a greater quantity of labour in those particular manufactures
21. Woollen or linen cloth are not the regulating commodities by which the real value of all other commodities must be finally measured and determined ; corn is
22. His sacred royal majesty of Portugal promises, both in his own name and that of his successors, to admit for ever hereafter, into Portugal, the woollen cloths, and the rest of the woollen manufactures of the British, as was accustomed, till they were prohibited by the law ; nevertheless upon this condition :
23. But if, at any time, this deduction or abatement of customs, which is to be made as aforesaid, shall in any manner be attempted and prejudiced, it shall be just and lawful for his sacred royal majesty of Portugal, again to prohibit the woollen cloths, and the rest of the British woollen manufactures
24. She prohibits the exportation from one province to another by water, and even the canriage by land upon horseback, or in a cart, of hats, of wools, and woollen goods, of the produce of America; a regulation which effectually prevents the
25. Our woollen manufacturers have been more successful than any other class of workmen, in persuading the legislature that the prosperity of the nation depended upon the success and extension of their particular business
26. They have not only obtained a monopoly against the consumers, by an absolute prohibition of importing woollen cloths from any foreign country; but they have likewise obtained another monopoly against the sheep farmers and growers of wool, by a similar prohibition of the exportation of live sheep and wool
27. Our woollen manufacturers, in order to justify their demand of such extraordinary restrictions and regulations, confidently asserted, that English wool was of a peculiar quality, superior to that of any other country; that the wool of other countries could not, without some mixture of it, be wrought up into any tolerable manufacture; that fine cloth could not be made without it ; that England, therefore, if the exportation of it could be totally prevented, could monopolize to herself almost the whole woollen trade of the world; and thus, having no rivals, could sell at what price she pleased, and in a short time acquire the most incredible degree of wealth by the most advantageous balance of trade
28. This doctrine, like most other doctrines which are confidently asserted by any considerable number of people, was, and still continues to be, most implicitly believed by a much greater number: by almost all those who are either unacquainted with the woollen trade, or who have not made particular inquiries
29. The exportation of fuller's earth, or fuller's clay, supposed to be necessary for preparing and cleansing the woollen manufactures, has been subjected to nearly the same penalties as the exportation of wool
30. Woollen yarn and worsted are prohibited to be exported, under the same penalties as wool even white cloths we subject to a duty upon exportation; and our dyers have so far obtained a monopoly against our clothiers
31. }, of some triclinaria, a sort of woollen pillows or cushions made use of to lean upon as they reclined upon their couches at table, passes all credibility; some of them being said to have cost more than £30,000, others more than £300,000
32. The faces of the older women looked brown in the winter sun and these wore thick woollen stockings and big boots as they worked in the fields
33. When the woollen manufacture came to be established in England, lest the king should lose any part of his customs upon wool by the exportation of woollen cloths, a like duty was imposed upon them
34. The wind was like ice as it passed through her blue woollen cloak and white silk coat and skirt worked with black fox embroidery
35. She wore a waist-length golden coat of silk with white embroidery, grey woollen trousers, and knee-high white leather boots
36. She wore a pale blue dress with white embroidery on the sleeves and across the breast, the Blue Water Dragon pin holding the neck of her dark blue woollen cloak
37. It irritated him to be seen in his nightclothes, woollen shirt and pants of pale cream, though they had never entered while he was naked
38. He dressed when the Guardians left the room, blue leather boots, dark trousers, and a dark blue woollen coat with a high collar embroidered with silver and gold
39. She wore a pale blue silk skirt and a sky blue woollen coat with gold buttons, white silk stockings, and blue leather boots
40. Terese was dressed almost identically in dark green woollen stockings and an emerald silk skirt and coat
41. Instead, she wove a tiny ball of blue flame that hovered in mid air behind the screen to give her enough light to find a red woollen coat and silk skirt
42. He wore the black high-collared woollen coat and dark trousers typical of an Alit’aren, knee-high brown leather boots with the Black Wolf and Red Lion sigils in gold-lined enamel on his left collar, the Blue Dragon on his right
43. The lieutenant’s name was Thal Agrem, a tall man in his forties, dark hair and eyes with a silvered breastplate over a green woollen coat
44. an old woollen stocking full of gold, she had not dared to send the boy
45. painted arch, a child was sleeping--a child in a white woollen garment,
46. her spare time in knitting a pair of thick woollen stockings, which
47. a woollen case clattered at his feet
48. She wore a tattered print dress and a ragged woollen comforter, tied across her thin shoulders and under her arms
49. 47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
50. 48 Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;