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homespun
1. From the rough homespun he wore, Nerissa guessed that when he wasn’t
2. Not sure of his mood—they had not spoken more than two words since fleeing the smelter—she set the newspaper, a couple of straw hats, homespun shirts, and overalls on the desk
3. Maggie noticed a few men who wore homespun clothing and carried pitchforks and homemade spears—farmers, these, with rough hands and weathered faces
4. His clothes were homespun and simple, but a large ruby glinted on one of his fingers
5. What a regal bearing he still projected even in the rude homespun that he had chosen to wear from the moment that he had thrown his lot in with the old man
6. What a regal bearing he still projected even in the rude homespun that he had chosen to wear
7. He’s only wearing homespun trousers
8. Moses and Aaron, clothed in homespun, oozing poverty
9. Tomorrow we would find out if our homespun philosophy that there are no 'evil nations', only two-faced jackals who perpetuate this toss was true - or perish in Persia in the attempt
10. Most men, I’ve no doubt, prefer the curved foot and fully-exposed limb, just as they’ll take a leather mini-skirted, spike-heeled Barbie over a barefoot earth mother in swirling homespun, every time
11. herself in a plain, homespun dress for her visit to the prison, for she knew not what to expect
12. homespun wisdom and you could tel me what the
13. Much better than the homespun we all is got on these days
14. homespun culture to begin with; but now they have somewhere to
15. smirking at one of her many homespun expressions
16. He wore the homespun clothing of a peasant, and even at the hour of his death, his eyes were defiant, so sure of himself
17. The rest of it went in a doublet of fine cloth and velvet breeches and shoes to match for holidays, while on week-days he made a brave figure in his best homespun
18. the girl won't know where she is, and at every turn she will fall into a thousand blunders that will show the thread of her coarse homespun stuff
19. His eyes followed the high figure in homespun, beard and bicycle, a listening woman at his side
20. She was slim, with a small bust under a homespun dress, and he imagined her breasts to be pale and round like the eggs
21. Though his rural, homespun western boys did not win, they came in third, an outcome that shocked the eastern fans and press
22. Some detachments were companies; some small groups were in homespun and coonskin caps; others, gaily uniformed in the scarlets and light blues and greens of select social-militia ununiformed, were in broadcloth and fine linen; all were half-drilled, half-armed, wild with excitement and shouting as though en route to a picnic
23. Looms that had gathered dust for years had been brought down from attics, and there were webs of homespun to negroes, began to wear homespun
24. Everyone, soldiers, civilians, women, children and practically disappeared and homespun of a butternut shade took its place
25. Nor could she borrow a dress, for the satin wedding dresses of years past had all gone into the making point out that homespun was the proper bridal attire for a Confederate bride
26. Gray wool for uniforms was That coat for Ashley was a sore subject with Scarlett, for she wished so ardently that now almost literally more priceless than rubies, and Ashley was wearing the familiar homespun
27. Somewhere a barefoot army in dirty homespun was marching, fighting, sleeping, hungry and weary with the weariness that comes when hope is gone
28. The swamp men were lean bearded giants in homespun, coon-skin caps on their heads, their rifles easy in the crooks of their arms, their wads of tobacco stilled in their cheeks
29. Plain Furniture of Oak and homespun Cloth for Pillows, and a woven Country Rug upon the earthen Floor
30. To murder your own family had a certain homespun style to it
31. Gandhi took up spinning cotton on a simple spinning wheel and insisted that his followers wear Indian homespun cloth, instead of cloth imported from Britain
32. The laborers were obviously of the household: two were young men in cotton shirts and caps, the two others were hired laborers in homespun shirts, one an old man, the other a young fellow
33. To the right were the male peasants; old men in homespun coats and bast shoes, and young men in new cloth caftans, bright-colored belts and boots
34. It was a coarser crowd than the peasants of Kusminskoie, and almost all the peasants wore bast shoes and homespun shirts and caftans
35. The sight of these so radically different men,—the one beaming with freshness, alacrity, elegance, the well-fed Frenchman, in a silk hat and long overcoat of the latest fashion, energetically illustrating with his white hands, unused to labour, how to squeeze the Germans, and the sight of the dishevelled Prokófi, with hay-seed in his hair, dried up from work, sunburnt, always tired and always working, in spite of his immense rupture, with fingers swollen from work, with his loosely hanging homespun trousers, battered bast shoes, jogging along with an immense forkful of hay over his shoulder in that indolent pace of a labouring man, which economizes motion,—the sight of these two so radically different men elucidated to me then many things, and has occurred to me now, after the Toulon-Paris celebrations
36. As evidently as Pomona, in her homespun skirt and bodice, belonged to the farmhouse, so did he to the great castle near by
37. She led them in, and there in the great kitchen, well within the glow from the deep hearth, propped on patchwork cushions, wrapped in blue homespun, lay the invalid
38. increase of the present ad valorem taxes, and an additional third upon molasses and brown sugar, upon the articles on which the poorest families on the seaboard make their daily meal—and in return we shall have a man, the texture of whose coat, whether homespun or imported, you cannot tell for the gold lace with which it is covered, and an establishment of marines at an expense of more than two hundred thousand dollars—and whom to protect? To protect the constituents of my worthy colleague, in the enjoyment of their peace of mind? When you consider in what manner every claim of merit is treated in this House—when you consider the poverty and misery in which thousands and tens of thousands of the people of the United States live, from whose earnings you daily take a part, I hope you will pause and reflect before you dispose of one doit of this sum on such objects
39. There was a fireplace; there were old-fashioned chairs that might have come out of an Agonquitt attic; there was a plain table, with blotters on it and bookshelves above; there was a cot covered with an old homespun blue-and-white cover
40. They would neglect their homespun for the military plume and the gilded epaulette