| 单词 | wool |
| 例句 | If she has no wool for the darning and the stockings are dark we can blacken our ankles with shoe polish for the respectability that’s in it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Her black winter coat and yellow wool scarf were gone. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z He wore canvas pants, homemade sandals, and a raw wool poncho in the winter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He began looking through the sweatshirts, trying to find one that wasn’t too cutesy, but Kaira went straight to a charcoal gray wool jacket hanging on display. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Sansa clutched it against her chest, fists bunched hard in the white wool. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They referred to the runaways as passengers, parcels, boxes, bales of black wool. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z From his other pocket, he reaches for a ratty wool hat and scarf. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Inej sought out Rotty and got him to dig up the wool coats she and Nina had left behind in favor of their cold weather gear when they’d landed on the northern shore. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Her arms are wrapped around her head and her wool blanket is twisted around her midsection and her pillow is jammed into the crack between mattress and wall—even in sleep, a tableau of friction. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We walk arm in arm down the street, like a couple out for a stroll, Max with my old wool scarf wrapped half across his face, as if he’s cold. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The brown wool of the friars’ robes was scratchy, and the sun shone brightly on the children’s faces. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Jacob picks up some spun wool and twirls it between his fingers. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She saw slaves carrying bolts of intricate Myrish lace and fine wools in a dozen rich colors. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Under the layers of leather, steel, and wool, he was slick with sweat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was dressed much as I was, though I suppose it was really the other way around: a rough-woven wool blanket wrapped over a gray pirhan-tumban and a vest. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was heavier than I’d expected—sixty or seventy pounds of precious gold wool. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I feel safe, small, wrapped in my illness as if in cotton wool. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The corpse's cloak was grey wool trimmed with white satin, she saw with sudden terror. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was a pale morning: in the East, behind long clouds like lines of soiled wool stained red at the edges, lay glimmering deeps of yellow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I’m shivering, and I’m wearing my ski jacket and a wool sweater. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Alex put the liquor in his backpack, then put on the heavy wool coat Greg or Bob had left behind in June when nobody thought about constant cold. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” I say to a very pretty African American girl in a wool skirt. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Viserys was seated just below her, splendid in a new black wool tunic with a scarlet dragon on the chest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The little bird was resting in the basket, cushioned by the pile of white wool, and I saw that it was, indeed, breathing—tiny, fast breaths that moved the wool up and down. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z They get it divided into rows of long parts in very intricate patterns so their heads end up looking like balls of dark wool made of a hundred pieces, very fancily stitched together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I found a wool scarf for Grandma for just ten cents, and socks for Conrad for three pennies. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Pilate put her hand on Hagar’s head and trailed her fingers through her granddaughter’s soft damp wool. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z My hands sweated so much holding the wool that I could not knit. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There were wristlets, short tubes of wool to keep the wind from whistling up soldier’s sleeves, and there were knitted helmets with only a hole in front to look out of. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Jack would have a big puff of wool left, and she could learn to be a bird. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The flames had bitten his nose and his lips, yet Dustfinger kept finding him making torches of cotton wool and thin twigs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The Hitler Youth sprang into action, collecting money, winter coats, wool sweaters, gloves, hats, socks, and blankets. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I smoothed Dinah’s crepe wool hair and placed her on the bed, then shoved my hand through my Devil’s Shoestrings bracelet and got up to get ready for school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I said, against the wool of his sweater. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor was covered with dry marsh grass and gray wool rugs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Once when I visited Buddy I found Mrs. Willard braiding a rug out of strips of wool from Mr. Willard's old suits. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The smith was squat and broad, plainly dressed in wool and leather, but his arms were as thick as a bull's neck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His mother had on rubber boots, unbuckled, and had used small finishing nails to tack a wool blanket across the entry to the living room. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Yesterday morning I dug out my old Houston Oilers hooded sweatshirt, a thick pair of corduroy pants, and a wool shirt that has always been too large for me to wear. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Her saddle and bridle were made of fine dark brown leather, and the saddle blanket was woven of gray and white wool that nearly matched the horse’s coat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And there were plenty of people who looked like they’d dressed up for the Renaissance Festival, with wool cloaks and tall leather boots. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Finally, Grandma bought some lovely soft gray wool for me and taught me how to knit a sweater for Dad. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The silence of the night fell on Meggie's ears, muffled as if by cotton wool. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Hazel looked up at the guard, whose face was rueful and whose body seemed cloaked by more than wool. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Carefully, I rested the bird on the soft wool. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The wool was a fine dark chocolate brown and bound in thick hanks. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She pawed through Miss Lilian’s silk dresses, her velvet gowns, her wool coats, setting them swinging and swaying like ghosts. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z As for the rest: a cot, wooden, a rust-colored wool blanket fitted neatly over a thin and bumpy mattress. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z At window four, Apa doesn’t speak, just hands over my green card to the young black man in the same dark blue wool sweater. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Now I lay back and pulled up my favorite wool blanket, a beautiful red one with weavings of the sun and birds. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Bushels of corn, bundles of raw wool, and a pile of three-foot crates that proved to be the source of the squawking. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z They stood for us, Heavy with wool, As they moved like a dirty cloud Over the hill Where the rain last fell. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a pair of fingerless gloves knit from a dense navy blue yarn, and a thick pair of brown wool mittens. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I knew about hot-combing thick heads of hair and ironing pleated wool skirts for school. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z So Phylo rolled it in to stand beside her, heaped with fine spun stuff, and cradled on it the distaff swathed in dusky violet wool. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here, take the cushion. I need you to hold this wool.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s now the fashion to have a spool with four nails pounded into one end, and a ball of wool. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z One-third of all Linear B tablets from the palace of Knossos are accountants’ records of sheep and wool, while an inordinate proportion of writing at the palace of Pylos consists of records of flax. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Several domestic animals yielded animal fibers—especially wool from sheep, goats, llamas, and alpacas, and silk from silkworms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She was in soft green wool herself, simply cut, the fabric clinging to the slender lines of her body. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I still had only my thin wool coat with the buttons missing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A number of them left Ireland for religious reasons, but most were victims of disastrous British policies that brought economic ruin to Ireland’s wool and linen industries. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Mother seemed pleased by the skeins of new wool that she pulled from her own bag, which bristled with needles of every size. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He dangled some wool before them and soon had them springing back and forth and tumbling on the carpet. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His upper body rippled with muscles, covered only by a Greek chlamys - a white wool cloak loosely wrapped and pinned at the shoulder. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z On board were two benches, some steel wool, an old cooler, and a mound of frayed rope with one end tied to the mooring. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She finished closing the wound, then covered Inej with a light wool blanket. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Doc rolled up his wool socks and put them in the rubber boots and from his pocket he brought out dry socks and a pair of thin moccasins. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing a wool hat and pants with suspenders, and he was laughing. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He yanks and yanks and finally it’s free and he’s smothering Haye with it, and he and Jeanne beat at the flames through the damp wool of the tunic. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In a dreamlike trance, I pulled the gray wool sweater over my head. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z It clung to my wool cloak and settled on my shoulders far more heavily than the weight of Sumac. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z But of course Grandma was putting on the best show possible to pull wool over the reporter’s eyes. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Her white fur beside the ram's wool—two textures, two colors, both called white in our inadequate language. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Everywhere there was the smell of vitality in clothes, the vital something in wool and flannel and corduroy which spring releases. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually she wears a gray skirt with two straps over the shoulders, and a red sweater pebbled with little balls of wool. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Like Davos, the king was plainly garbed in wool and boiled leather, though the circlet of red gold about his temples lent him a certain grandeur. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He wore a black wool suit and a black overcoat that had once belonged to his grandfather. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Sheep raised for wool, pet dogs and cats, war horses and race horses often enjoyed comfortable conditions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Ma must have prayed harder to find wool pleated skirts, because among all those mod new jumpers and skirts, she managed to find a rack of babyish pleated skirts. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z My father no longer wore silk scarves or expensive wool suits. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She is barefoot, wearing flowing black wool pants and a thin beige cardigan. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The bride’s cloak Sigom fastened about Lady Alys’s shoulders showed a bronze disk on a field of white wool, surrounded by flames made with wisps of crimson silk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She stuck her needles in the ball of green wool in her lap. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The clouds hung thick and heavy as a priest’s black wool robe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z In the mornings I get out of bed, put on my clothes, the stiff cotton waist with the garters, the ribbed stockings, the nubbled wool pullover, the plaid skirt. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We love the fatness Of wool, the itch Of something warm to wear. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt like a wet wool blanket you could not take off. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The streetcar is muggy with twice-breathed air and the smell of wool. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I open the door and find Master Crofts dressed in his thick wool cassock, but looking rather blue-lipped from the cold. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It's cold, and our lips are dry, noses a little wet, foreheads sweaty beneath wool hats. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z He pulled the blue wool cap over his ears. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Yet Franklin fit neither model: she was neither affable housewife nor cauldron-stirrer in a boiled wool robe, neither Madonna nor witch. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z These clumps of whispering girls with their spools and colored wool tails have to do with boys, with the separateness of boys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A canal to bring a branch of the creek closer to the Smoke; new patterns for the sheep wool their sweaters were made from; a new latrine. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z My mother tucked me into my jacket and put my wool cap on my head. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sheep stared at us with big leaky eyes, their wool soggy and tails drooping. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The air was hot and dripping, as if the city were wrapped in a wool blanket just pulled from a boiling pot. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom replaces Abuela’s bedding with fresh sheets and a lamb’s wool blanket we brought from home. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She heads straight for the sale rack at the back and finds a mustard- colored wool coat, several sizes too big for me, with shiny black buttons. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Its contents spilled onto the rug with a muffled thank of metal on wool. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The wet wool smells like first grade, walking to school on a cold morning with my milk money jangling in the tips of my mittens. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I brushed them away and turned my attention back to the soft white alpaca wool resting on my lap. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z She had just dropped a ball of wool and was carefully rewinding the end of it. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The members of the Grounds and Buildings Committee arrived at two o’clock and filled the library with the scent of cigars and frosted wool. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I twirled her crepe wool hair around in my fingers instead. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He was a quiet, soft-spoken man who wore old-timey clothes, fedoras, button-down wool coats, suspenders, and dressed neatly at all times, regardless of how dirty his work made him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look,” she said, “if you wrap the wool around your fourth finger like this, it’s easier to control the tension, and the stitches stay even.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I never thought bout that Nettie say somewhere in the bible it say Jesus’ hair was like lamb’s wool, I say. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She sank her fingers into their thick, coarse wool. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z A hound and hunters chased a boar toward a fringe of scarlet wool. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z His fingers found the hard lumps the crystals made in the wool. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes it was buttons, sometimes it was dam- ing wool, sometimes it was shoelaces; at present it was razor blades. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Two pairs of knitted wool stockings between her feet and the cold boards, the blue shawl wrapped securely about her ears, and a heavy quilt swaddled around her from head to foot. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She knelt, opened the lid, and began pulling her clothes out with both hands, grabbing handfuls of silk and satin and velvet and wool and tossing them on the floor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Sheep and alpacas were selected for retention of wool and reduction or loss of hair, while cows have been selected for high milk yields. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You glance at a middle-aged woman in a red wool hat who’s sitting at the closest table, definitely within earshot. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Going over to his sheep, Rick bent down, searching in the thick white wool—the fleece at least was genuine—until he found what he was looking for: the concealed control panel of the mechanism. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Faces floated in the air—the judge's face crowned with that mockery of grey wool—the cold dead face of Mrs. Rogers—the convulsed purple face of Anthony Marston. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Sean picked him up, drove him home in a silence so absolute Finn felt as if he were wearing a helmet packed with lamb’s wool. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z And there he stood, a sombrero on his head, a wool blanket around his shoulders, and his leg in a garbage can. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I think it refers to the little balls of wool that form on sweaters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "The same things I'd have of all of them, lad. Men, horses, swords, armor, grain, cheese, wine, wool, nails . . . the Night's Watch is not proud, we take what is offered." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I wore my wool and hoped for a thaw. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The tailored grey wool that makes up the back of Mr. A. H—’s suit shifts. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The sky looks like gray wool, and that's a good thing. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z They all wore the nondescript clothes of sailors—roughspun trousers, boots, thick wool coats and hats. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And now he stood, pointing to a flap of dark wool beneath a meringue of snow. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Out there the wind was stronger, a cold north wind that howled across the lake, knifed through their layers of wool and leather, and set them all to shivering. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I was wearing a three-piece wool suit, with a collar and tie. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Mitraillette’s pullover does fit, and I have a many-times patched over wool jacket that once belonged to her brother, but the combination of these warm outer garments and the dowdy frock looks dead weird. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Loose strands of hair sprang from her head like she’d pulled a wool hat off and the static electricity still hung in the air around her. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The warmth of the creature, the smell of the wool, the tension in its body all said that the man was lying. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “They were getting into the cornfield. They brought a good price — two hanks of wool for a new cape.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The concentric circles of a braided wool rug concealed most of the floorboards. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The arm was crawling up his leg, rip-ping at wool and flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The left sleeve of his black wool tunic was fastened at the shoulder with a sil-ver pin in the shape of a longsword. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The anacos are a soft wool blend with fine zigzags along the bottom, a cream anaco underneath and a dark one on top. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He wraps the book with a length of fine wool yarn dyed a deep crimson, bits of it stained darker with something dried and brown. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It felt like wrapping himself in a wet wool blanket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z DeeDee lay back on the pillows, bare-legged under her green wool dressing gown, and watched me with a little mocking smile. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z One of them wore a bright-red stocking cap with a great ball of wool hanging down behind that bounced as he jumped, like a bright omen above his head. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Big Ma kept pulling hangers of pleated wool skirts off the rack and putting them back. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He was clad in black from head to heel; high leather riding boots, roughspun breeches and tunic, sleeveless leather jerkin, and heavy wool cloak. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The bleachers in this moment were ruled by virgin shoes and wool socks fresh from cellophane. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was made of finely checkered gray-and-blue wool, with a striped lining and horn buttons, and carried in its weave the faint smell of limes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He could feel the merch’s heart pounding beneath the wool of his suit. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z From the corner of my eye, I saw a dot of pink wool slide behind the front wheel of the cart. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Winter calls for Fair Isle sweaters, lined wool pants, and Christmas hair ornaments. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Grover yelped, but Polyphemus just picked up the nearest sheep like it was a stuffed animal and shaved off its wool. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Inside was a frilly white shirt, a pair of breeches, and a long wool coat with epaulets. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on a small, rancid cot at the side of the cell, Ben moved his hand along the wool blanket waiting for his eyes to grow accustomed to the dark. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As an agent for the Union Pacific, he single-handedly saved Colorado’s wool trade during a blizzard by ramming locomotive plows through snowdrifts to open the tracks for trains bearing sheep feed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Of white wool it had been, bordered in cloth-of-silver and patterned with blue stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Finally, Alys lowered her to the bed and pulled the length of wool cloth up around her bare shoulders. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z On July 21, the day after the doctors’ positive bulletin, they discovered cotton and wool fibers mixed with the pus coming from the wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We smell like wet wool, both of us do, and his fingers are cold even through the layers of my coat. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Briony prepared the tannic acid in a bowl and took the roll of cotton wool. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Slowly—exceedingly slowly—the mess of wool in my hands began to take shape. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His touch felt like wearing a prickly old wet wool sweater with no undershirt. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I cocooned the small boy in my long wool coat, folding the collar over as a headrest. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Matt felt his right foot under the scratchy wool blanket.This was his one weakness, and he despaired of keeping it hidden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore a thick checked wool coat with a white apron tied over it, a long scarf, and a leather top hat. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z There were only two men besides Master Lockton- Goldbuttons, wearing a shabby waistcoat of black wool, and the third man, who I took to be the mayor. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z We are scrubbed and in our donated clothes, the girls in dresses with white pinafores and thick stockings, the boys in knickers that button below the knee, white dress shirts, neckties, thick wool suit coats. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She’ll be there in firelight before a column, with her maids in shadow, spinning a wool dyed richly as the sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every child pays fourpence a week. Sometimes they pay with eggs or wool or such things instead. It will help, Kit, a great deal.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Portia held his shawl over the stove until the wool was hot. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She fits the skein of wool over my two outstretched hands, starts winding. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Other vendors along the street were starting to arrange their wares—rubber sandals, wool shawls, toys, baskets of pomegranates, cinnamon sticks, and cloves. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z We wear long wool coats with tie belts, the collars turned up to look like those of movie stars, and rubber boots with the tops folded down and men’s work socks inside. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Nettie say somewhere in the bible it say Jesus’ hair was like lamb’s wool, I say. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath us, the old sheep, her wool in dirty clumps, cropped wild herbs. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Wearing soft, loose clothing of vampire-bat wool, he swanned around his palaces with a bowl of palm wine or chicha, a sweet, muddy, beer-like drink usually made from crushed maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The wool was rough, and she winced every time it scratched against her damaged skin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A shearing had brought a veritable mountain of gray wool to be washed and bleached and dyed, enough to keep Mercy carding and spinning and weaving for the next twelve months. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z As once a kelimi had separated a brother and sister, now a wool blanket separated second cousins. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She found his cloak on the floor, twisted up tight, the white wool stained by blood and fire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His doublet was divided down the middle; the left side was purple velvet with bronze studs; the right, yellow wool embroidered in green floral patterns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Merchants and craftsmen leaned out of their windows or strolled by with their fat, pretty wives, clad in richly dyed wool. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I put on my rabbit slippers and pulled my wool dressing gown over my nightie. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There was no time to change into better clothes, so I pulled my big wool coat over my cat-and-dog pajamas, and we tiptoed out of the house, careful not to make too much sound. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He paid for the wool and asked the shepherd to come back the following year. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Their cloaks hung almost to the ground, the heavy wool dyed a rich gold; their mail and boots and gloves were black. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It rocked as we settled in, smoothing wool skirts into place with callused hands. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Have you ever heard an ant wearing fur slippers walk across a thick wool carpet?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “Look what I have for you,” and she held up a pale green silk dress lined in wool. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He bought wool from die north and linen from the south and lace from Lys, stared it, moved it, dyed it, sold it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Shall I give you a performance this evening—show you what the bottles, the cotton wool, and all the other mysterious things in my bag are for?” he asked without looking at her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I turned my gaze to our rooftop, found Baba and Rahim Khan sitting on a bench, both dressed in wool sweaters, sipping tea. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She pushed her dirk into a northman’s chest through fijr and wool and boiled leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Elizabeth asks because Lou Anne’s wearing a gray wool dress in the heat of summer. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In fingerless wool gloves knitted late at night—sitting up in bed while Carl snored—she’d perched on a stool, milking cows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When he took meetings around the borough, he wore a wool flannel three-piece. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s your cat,” she says, pointing to a stack of gloves and wool hats. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I could smell the thing—a sickening combination of wet sheep wool and rotten meat and that weird sour body odor only monsters have, like a skunk that’s been living off Mexican food. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She herself constructed shapeless beings made of leftover scraps from the wool she used to knit for the poor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As the frigid wind enveloped me again I zipped up my new jacket and pulled on the wool cap. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The pride—and survival—of an eight-year-old boy depended on a flannel shirt and pair of man’s wool pants. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Being limited in materials, due to shortages and rationing, she used a gorgeous sunset-colored wool that she had unraveled from a suit tailored for her by Ormaie’s most expensive modiste in 1912. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The Christmas mornings of his youth had been suffocated under an excess of piety, prayer, and silence, as if a giant wool blanket had settled over the house. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The day was growing hotter, the air as thick and wet as damp wool, and the pails seemed to grow heavier with every step. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sour smells of wood smoke and wool and cows cling to him, saturating his poncho, his rough skin. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Father’s given me permission to knit a white wool sweater; the yarn isn’t very pretty, but it’ll be warm, and that’s what counts. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He popped a fistful of plant material into his mouth, chewed it up, then spat it into a clump of wool. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Blanca spent the winter knitting a sweater made of Scottish wool in her sewing class at school, with the boy’s measurements in mind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Frankie and I huddled on the docks, smothered in layers of wool and fur, as we watched passengers stream down the gangway of the SS Christopher Columbus. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He was a roaring furnace under all his layers of wool and straps and canvas. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z On a crystalline fall day you can almost hear the tinkle of fine crystal, the rustle of silk and wool, almost smell the expensive cigars. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z An elderly woman, dressed in a black skirt and a wool coat with shawls, leans against Ben, her finger pointing. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z His black wool surcoat was emblazoned with the white sunburst of his house. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I pulled the sides of my lamb’s wool coat together. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I am at a disadvantage: I’m in my crumpled, gravy-spotted Swiss Chalet uniform, my armpits are sweaty, my feet hurt, my hair in this humidity is unruly and dank and curling like singed wool. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was asleep the minute her head touched the thick wool of Tommie’s skirt. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z For all her layers of wool and fur and boiled leather, Asha felt naked standing there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z You loop the wool over each nail in turn, twice around, and use a fifth nail to hook the bottom loops over the top ones. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z That’s how long Booth and Herold have been in the swamp, scratching at wood ticks, shivering under thin, damp wool blankets, and eating the one meal a day provided by Thomas Jones. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He’d gained weight since I’d seen him last, and his heavy gray wool pants and thick blue down coat made him look even bigger. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Sunshine, in fact, bathed the entire afghan, and the play of warm, brilliant light in the pale-blue wool was in itself well worth beholding. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z She was wearing a dress of gray wool. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was little, my Sunday school teacher said that in the Bible it describes Jesus as having 'skin like copper, hair like lamb’s wool.’ It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Down there near the riverbank,” she said, “where the bushes grow thick, are sheep with fleeces of gold. Go fetch me some of their shining wool.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Dancer was draped in bardings of snowy white wool emblazoned with the grey direwolf of House Stark, while Bran wore grey breeches and white doublet, his sleeves and collar trimmed with air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Does she want me to go into the sitting room and help her wind gray wool? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She hadn’t been there when I brought Charles home, and she looked like she’d just got out of bed herself: tousle-haired, no lipstick, wearing a gray wool sweater that came down past her wrists. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The spring lambs were tall now, playful, and thick with wool. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His wet wool clung to him sodden and itching, his neck and shoulders ached fiercely from the weight of mail and sword, and he was sick of salt cod, salt beef, and hard cheese. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The women were bundled in hats, gloves, and ankle-length wool coats topped with striped satin sashes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Travis said, “It will be nice to have wool socks when it’s cold, don’t you think? I hope they’ll be done in time.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem like she was doing anything but spinning wool into gray thread. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Buddy bent to pull off my boots and the several pairs of white wool socks that padded them. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Their mattresses and pillows were soft as down, and the blankets were of white wool. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “I need to sell some wool,” the boy told the merchant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I pictured Mr. Patterson and his wife on a scratchy wool blanket at the edge of the tide. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Inside was a rough wool blanket, a full waterskin, some dried meat, and a dozen wickedly sharp crossbow bolts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The red priestess brushed the black wool aside and slipped her arm through his. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My stocking seams were straight, my black shoes cracked, but polished, and my red wool suit flamboyant as my plans. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Part of her was tempted to run, but Bob had already placed Percy in the giant’s bed, where he nearly disappeared in the wool and leather. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Ged stretched out in the bottom of the boat to sleep, wrapped in his cloak of wool and fur. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z And I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton wool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom ran out of the room and came back with one of the army- surplus blankets I hated because the wool was so scratchy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When her parents saw Jeanne, their faces went white as wool. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She smelled of coffee and jelly and damp wool. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I was handed some clothes, but don’t ask what: a pair of wool slacks over my pajamas, a red sweater and a black skirt, white understockings and tattered kneesocks. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The women received jackets, skirts, and petticoats, the men wool trousers and wool jackets and caps and shoes. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Seven took her black wool cape off and pushed the sleeves of her sweater up just so. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I’d fed Sumac again, and he was nestled into the center of a basket filled with warm alpaca wool, just to the side of my rush mat. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z In one window, two pilgrims in thick wool breeches and doublets pointed at Plymouth rock while their fellow voyagers looked on from ships in the mural. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The skin was firm, so she pressed the cotton wool until he flinched. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She pretended his eyes weren’t scouring her. up and down, steel wool scraping her skin raw. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Cotton was known in Europe by the thirteenth century but not common until the eighteenth; Columbus and his men wore sturdy flax and coarse wool.* 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They gave her a shift of grey roughspun wool and a pair of ill-fitting shoes, and sent her off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The men were issued heavy sheepskin jackets and wool clothing, assembled, and photographed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z After dinner I read the newspaper, while Mala sat at the kitchen table, working on a cardigan for herself with more of the bright blue wool, or writing letters home. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She had tried her best, but William seemed content just to sit, his back stiffly straight, his large capable hands resting squarely on his sturdy wool- clad knees. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I'm in a mauve wool dress that I inherited from Elsbeth, which fits me well but is such a regretful color that she and I used to call it the Tonsil. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z "Good wool, no silk, no samite, and no fur. The rest I'll keep in my own chambers for when you visit me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His tunic and toga were of black wool, embroidered with threads of gold. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I could see part of that brochure from where I sat: fresh-faced girls playing lacrosse, or cuddled in thick wool cardigans sipping cocoa in rooms filled with leather-bound books. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Clara took off her white wool coat ana rolled up her sleeves. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She tucked her wool scarf closer to her neck. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A pair of scissors for a tailor, a gold lamb for a wool weaver, a basin for a barber, a painted wooden book for a bookbinder, a large swinging compass for an instrument- maker. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Still in the dressy black wool outfit she’d worn to Sue Lee’s, she walked the floor in front of the bureau, back and forth, forth and back. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She hands him a red wool scarf, the one she has been knitting on and off. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z To his left sat Lady Dustin, clad as ever in black wool, severe in cut and unadorned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She sat at one end of the room, knitting, lifting her eyes now and then from the wool to watch us and direct us. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I wrapped my shawl more snugly around my face, as if that piece of wool could protect me from wolves and whatever other dangers lay ahead. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Winterfell had been awake for hours, its battlements and towers crammed with men in wool and mail and leather awaiting an attack that never came. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I grabbed the dark green wool winter hat out of my backpack and pulled it on. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Looking down, Bran glimpsed pale flesh where the wool of his leggings had parted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There were furs of every kind, including a handsome arrangement of black and white lambs’ wool, sewn in contrasting diamonds. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the men had to make do with wool blankets. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She bought some deep-brown wool and three- fourths of a yard of matching velvet. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Each man wore a new cloak, heavy grey wool with a white satin border. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She was dressed in a gray wool suit; she wore pearls around her neck and in her earlobes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore a long wool coat and carried a canvas sack. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Jon could feel her heat, even through his wool and boiled leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tally let herself cry, burying her face in the scratchy wool sleeve of her new sweater, feeling Shay’s warmth against her, and feeling awful about every gesture of kindness from her friend. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well,” Heidi says, taking off her rain boots and pulling up two wool socks. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Alys was in the rocker, knitting with gray wool in the dim, flickering light. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then she slips on the mitt, dark red with a pink wool embroidered leaf. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In place of the rich robes of his predecessors, he wore a shapeless tunic of undyed wool that fell down to his ankles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I scanned the marsh, raking my eyes through all the bodies moving across the ice, the children in their bright coats and wool hats, shrieking and laughing. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He put on his sweater, wool pants, hat, and blue peacoat. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was always leaving little gifts in Nate’s tent—a pair of wool socks, a tin canteen. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z It was made of brown vicuña wool, a luxury reserved for the highest of noblemen and shamans. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Why, Werner—” She loses herself momentarily in troubled reverie, surrounded by sleek furniture, some of it wrapped in thick wool blankets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Made me that sweater I have. Sheared the wool, dyed it with indigo, spun it, knitted it, too big. Brought it over with a kettle of chowder and told me to grow into it.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I was indulging myself in details as if they were wool blankets or alcohol, escaping wholly back into the fire-and-water-filled early days of our friendship. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She’s dressed up in red wool pants despite the sweltering heat and has Daddy’s old Kappa Alpha blanket draped on the chair. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Some dressed in fine soft furs, some in boiled leather and oddments of armor, more in wool and sealskins, a few in rags. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z With both of us hunting daily, there are still nights when game has to be swapped for lard or shoelaces or wool, still nights when we go to bed with our stomachs growling. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She talked quietly while she got dressed, telling me to tie my shoes, and be certain to carry my wool sweater, and to put on my leather jacket Her hands were not shaking. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the women went away and came back with a green wool shift that was almost her size. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Herringbones and madras and lamb’s wool and cashmere flashed past in a blur as hands and arms rent the air in a variety of graceful gestures. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It must have been something like the moment the doors closed on Noah’s Ark. We threw our wool blankets over our heads, but it was already too late. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Later that day, as she sat alone with Mercy over their wool combs, she spoke her thoughts aloud. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I stood, placing the alpaca wool in a basket at my hip. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Or she stays in the sitting room, knitting away at her endless Angel scarves, turning out more and more yards of intricate and useless wool people: her form of procreation, it must be. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Above, clouds like dyed cotton wool hang low, so low I feel I can reach out and squeeze the moisture from them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Most notably, they provided meat, milk products, fertilizer, land transport, leather, military assault vehicles, plow traction, and wool, as well as germs that killed previously unexposed peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I stroke the soft wool inside my gloves, so warm that not even my fingertips are cold. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Laundry soap, knitting wool, and a special syrup to strengthen the lungs were distributed free, for Trueba did not want anyone dirty, cold, or sick living on his land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They sneak out quietly, and Henry touches Alex’s shoulder at the gate near where his SUV waits, presses his palm into the wool of his coat and the knot of muscle. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He wore a brown wool traveler’s cloak, with silvery chain mail glimmering underneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He can feel solid flesh through the wool of the sweater. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z On winter days, picking fish from his net, he wore a wool cap knitted by his wife and an infantryman’s battered field jacket. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z To the left are the winter whites: wool coats, mink hats, wool sweaters. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I have two dresses, one for summer and one for winter, and a tunic and a wool skirt, for school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He put on his sweater, wool pants, hat, and blue peacoat. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She is crocheting a scarf of pale blue wool. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Everybody had begun to look alike, dressed in surplus War Department clothing—pea coats, knit caps, canvas leggings, army earmuffs, and wool khaki pants. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The soles of his feet ached pleasantly It was not very cold; he had been sweating in Nicholas’s wool coat, which now hung on the back of his chair. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He wore mismatched clothes of wool and leather, knee-length boots, and a floppy felt hat. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Maester Luwin looked up at them numbly, a small grey man with blood on the sleeve of his grey wool robe and tears in his bright grey eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They’d carried the smell of wet snow into the room—it had melted against the wool in their coats—and were grateful to be in a warm place where something of interest was going forward. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The other two had been crafted with a wooden frame hung with wool blankets. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Cursing, he tore off the clothes and dressed again, in felted black wool and ringmail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This was a good day to bleach the wool. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The scent brought me back to my childhood, visiting trade fairs and markets with my father as he pored over bolts of linen, wool, and leather. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Then he pointed at the steel wool and it flew across the floor, scrubbing and polishing so fast, the steel began to smoke. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He was a collection of hard lines and tailored edges—sharp jaw, lean build, wool coat snug across his shoulders. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Good wool, thick, a double weave, damp but not rotted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He wore black leather boots, black woolen pants, black moleskin gloves, and a fine supple coat of gleaming black ringmail over layers of black wool and boiled leather. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her great-uncles wool coat hangs from the hook in the foyer; she puts it on. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her maiden’s cloak was the black wool of the Night’s Watch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ahmad had epilepsy and always wore a wool vest and thick black- rimmed glasses—he was one of Assef’s regular victims. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then I went back to my room and put on another pair of jeans, an undershirt, and a thick flannel shirt over it, two pairs of socks, my galoshes, and a heavy wool coat. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Blood dripped down his arm where Shaggydog had shredded the wool of his sleeve and the flesh beneath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She wears a navy wool coat, a black wool scarf at her throat, long black leather boots that zip up the sides. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Identical smiles peek out from underneath thick wool scarves, the holiday lights at the park down the street twinkling above our heads just like the stars in her drawing. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He had steel wool in his heavily gloved hand. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Some afternoons he leaves Marie-Laure in the laboratory of Dr. Geffard, an aging mollusk expert whose beard smells permanently of damp wool. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Granddaddy smelled like wool, tobacco, mothballs, and peppermint. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Off come mittens, a wool shirt, a battered coat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her tiny dress of good blue wool was embroidered with white beads and ribbons, and her new makazins were carefully sewn. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Under black wool, boiled leather, and mail, sweat trickled icily down Ion's chest as he pressed the attack. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Carefully I stored the toy matches in the hem of my new wool bathrobe. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z To be truthful, the Devine Company, which had gotten fat on sheep, was not dealing in wool anymore. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood over her, beautiful in blue wool and black leather, his golden curls shining in the sun like a crown. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Afterward he laced up his black wool breeches and followed the smells. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I hope the little crocus buds have tiny wool blankets because the temperature dipped back down to the thirties, and our classroom was chilly when we rolled in this morning. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Mama Joe wore a wool hat even though sweat had made yellow patches under the sleeves of her blouse. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Then the first gust caught him, slicing through his layers of wool and leather to set his teeth to chattering. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Different types, from heavy cabled wool to fine lace, but each is a deep, scarlet red that looks even redder against all of the black and white. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z What had been a heavy wool coat becomes a long piece of black silk that ripples like water over the chair. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I could smell our wool mittens drying on the stove. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We curled around each other on the scrap of wool at the feet of Mrs. Milgrom. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Their faces were muffled in woolen scarves so only their eyes showed, and they were plump with layers of wool and leather, black on black. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She tries to wipe the blood away with her sleeve but it’s wool and spreads the blood till the whole side of the Pope’s face is smeared. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I never dreamed I’d owe my life to such an appalling article of clothing,” said Horace, testing the sweater’s wool between his fingers. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The way I was holding it, it looked like a scoop of loathsome fish ice cream sticking out of a wool blanket cone. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She wore the old black cardigan all the time now, even on warm days, and she insisted on keeping her legs wrapped up in strips of an old wool blanket. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Her nose brushed my cheek, and the wool from her scarf tickled my chin. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Sela was the best; all the added muttering, dancing and trickery was done merely to enhance her reputation, to pull the wool over the eyes of stupid ignorant creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His suit, she could see, was expensive, fine silver thread running through the wool, and his shoes were, too: cordovan with tassels and smooth leather soles. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mami bought me a red plaid wool jumper with a crisp white shirt, my first pair of stockings, and penny loafers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It reminded him of the wool from his sheep ... his sheep who were now seeking food and water in the fields of Andalusia, as they always had. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the road, she could see Mrs Rance’s shop, where you bought buttons and wool and bits of elastic. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The thin texture of cellulose wool felt rigid and rough. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The pink wool skirt she’s wearing brings out the color in her cheeks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The veil of security I thought the uniform provided had been lifted, and now we hustled in our black dress shoes and stained wool pants through dirty fields and grassy yards. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In the shadows, the solid black wool seemed to shift and boil, forming images of faces in agony, as if lost souls were trying to escape from the folds of his clothes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Then Jocelyn was bending over her, wrapping her in a soft clean blanket of green wool to cover her nakedness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Kit picked up her wool cards and set to work. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The fabric of his black wool suit writhed with imprisoned souls. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She had caught the train that Saturday morning, wearing a black wool dress and the big hat with ostrich plumes that Miss Love had made. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Harry got a new suit of the finest dark navy wool, perfect for the young man about to make his mark in the world. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He didn’t need it anymore, for Mama had made him a new suit of clothes—a calico shirt, skin leggings, a set of blue broadcloth britches trimmed with red wool. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The wool is.gray and has absorbed moisture from the air, it’s like a wetted baby blanket and smells faintly of damp sheep. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair fell down in black curls, and my head was covered with black steel wool. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She could imagine Yellow Kettle beading them, lining them inside with the silkiest rabbit fur and pieces of an old wool blanket. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z There were no oilskins, and the men were dressed in wool, which got wet and stayed wet for the duration of the voyage. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z In their wool and fur and leather, they looked as big as bears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wool fluffed and stuck to her fingers and snarled in clumps. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The list just kept on going until I wanted to remind her of how she buttonedMissy’s body into her finest green wool dress, saying, “It’s like dressing a doll.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z I yanked the door open, and there she was with her hair pulled back, wearing a gray wool skirt and a matching blazer. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z How' can she bear to touch the wool, in this heat? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Margot was tucking her wool blanket around her when suddenly she leapt out of bed and carefully examined the blanket. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I remember Sanaubar came out of the hut holding her grandson, had him wrapped in a wool blanket. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I gripped the sheep’s wool more tightly, and the animal made a grumbling sound. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Some said they grew from old things—flies grew from old meat, moths from old wool. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There’re men in black wool coats with leather gloves and soft scarves about their necks; women in high heels with jewelry and painted nails who aren’t desperate for food. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z He dumped Chicken Little into a burlap sack and tossed him next to some egg crates and boxes of wool cloth. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I shall ask Mercy to teach me to knit, Kit decided after the second Saturday, and thereafter she armed herself with wool and needles. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I look back at her, eye her suspiciously, even though she is so frail under the wool blanket. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I had forgotten the skinny brown girl with the curled hair, wool jumper, and lively hands. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I like the smell of wool and wood smoke. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex is frozen, registering the press of Henry’s lips and the wool cuffs of his coat grazing his jaw. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Luke’s teeth were still chattering so I also brought a wool blanket. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She had noticed him earlier, in his three-piece wool suit, staring at her as they waited on the tarmac. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I was washing wool on the bank of the River Kan. Suddenly a noise like the fluttering of the wings of a frightened bird was heard ... and a kind of swell came up the river. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They'd been issued a pair of khaki pants, a khaki jacket minus the shiny buttons, black leather shoes, gray wool socks, a black belt, and a hat with a swastika on the front. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Now, however, the snowdrifts tugged at my wool skirt as I wobbled my way along a packed and icy trail. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z There was a short bunk made up with a wool blanket to starboard; Abel ran his flashlight across it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Her family was wealthy then, but that didn’t stop her from stitching entire quilts before breakfast, or spinning miles of wool before tea. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She chose a simple dress of dark grey wool, plainly cut but richly embroidered around the collar and sleeves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Mrs. Milgrom was laid in the cart and covered with a ragged scrap of cabbage-colored wool that had once been a blanket. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z In the bathroom mirror, her hair had startled her, dull and shrunken from sleep, like a mop of wool sitting on her head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The shop smelled of old leather, wool, and denim. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Even the Cyclops’s smallest sheep were big enough to support my weight, and they had thick wool. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The room is thick with bourbon smell and red wool and diamond rings. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A large, bosomy Slavic lady in a bulky sweater of natural sheep's wool, purple slacks, high-heeled black overshoes with Persian lamb cuffs and a matching toque, puffed white, inaudible words into the wintry air. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z On Sunday I put on the clothes my mother and I have picked out, a dress of dark-blue and green wool plaid, white ribbed stockings that attach with garters onto my stiff white cotton waist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A robe of undyed wool belted with a hempen rope marked him far one of the begging brothers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Lane Coutell, in a Burberry raincoat that apparently had a wool liner buttoned into it, was one of the six or seven boys out on the open platform. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Still his hands swam frantically between the slippery silks, looking for his cotton shirts and wool pants. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls hair, held atop her head like a ball of wool, bounced as she ran. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He wore a dark wool topcoat over his suit and white shirt and tie. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At an army-surplus store, I bought flannel shirts, thermal underwear, thick wool socks, the kind of blue work pants that auto mechanics wear, and a new pair of steel-toed boots. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z On the bottom parts of their legs they wear thick wool socks, which are usually damp and falling down. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Knuckles and fingertips raw from hot water and steel wool. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He borrowed heavily to buy himself three sheep, and the bottom dropped out of the wool market the very year he had had enough wool to think of it as a cash crop. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She fixes them up with paint and collage and steel wool stuck on at appropriate places. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Cassiopeia might be able to learn a bit of finger crocheting if they worked straight through dinner and used extra thick wool—and Beowulf was very close to being able to do a cartwheel. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z There in the fall of the heavy brown wool she held her eyes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It happened so fast that the deer stumbled and was lost in a sea of wool and trampling hooves. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just Leviticus—the secondhand clothes I owned were mixed of wool and flax, and if I searched through the verses, I was certain I’d find a dozen other infractions I was guilty of. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Behind us,” Coldhands announced, his voice muffled by the black wool scarf across his nose and mouth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I made a point of watching Ahmad and his father get into the car, Ahmad in his wool vest and winter coat, his schoolbag filled with books and pencils. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She wanted out of her cold socks, out of the damp wool sweater that was prickly against her skin. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He would walk fast on the pavement, turned tightly into himself, hands deep in the coat his cousin had lent him, a gray wool coat whose sleeves nearly swallowed his fingers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Most of the knots fixed that morning had loosened under her headcloth and were now cupfuls of soft wool her fingers thrilled to. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Bundled in a secondhand wool coat and gloves that were too big, Fadi loosened his scratchy scarf. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z But if you put your ice cream in a round as opposed to a rectangular container and charge five to ten cents more, that seems like you’re pulling the wool over people’s eyes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She lifts the wool from my two hands, where I have been holding it all this time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Steel ..whispered through wool and silk with a faint, soft sound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He filled the seams between the new planks with wool yarn unraveled from a scarf and then caulked them with Marston’s oil paints. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I walk down to where Cordelia stands by the railing, the snow not crunching but giving way under my feet like cotton wool packing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On the land taken from the commons, landowners were able to employ laborers from the peasant class to raise large herds of sheep and to send the wool to factories to be processed. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z His wife, about the same age as he, was dressed in a simple brown cotton dress and a grey wool sweater worn at the elbows and buttoned in the front. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z So why don't they make him with 'skin like copper and hair like lamb’s wool'?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He raised the sword and brought it down upon the dead man, grunting as the blade sheared through wet wool and rusted mail and rotted leather, biting deep into the bones and flesh beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I spent the night on the roof alone wrapped in my heavy wool coat, alternately dozing against a chimney, and waking to look through the telescope. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Huge colonial pieces made of blond oak and walnut arrived, along with heavy wool carpets, and lamps of hammered iron and copper. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Close behind came Robb, in grey wool trimmed with white, the Stark colors. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She attached a bit of red wool to his leg. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z She just stayed, a puff of wool frozen in time. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z At the register the cashier notices Moushumi eyeing a brown wool and velvet hat decorated with feathers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z That night, Baba was lying on the couch, a wool blanket covering him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Let us examine pond water for algae. Van Leeuwenhoek was the first man to have seen what you will see today. He was a wool merchant, much as I was a cotton merchant.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It clung to Holmes and his fellow prisoners like a cloak of moist wool, yet this too he seemed not to mind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Claire looked down at her own feet, encased in thick wool socks under her coarse leather sandals. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “The one who sits on the red bench, with his wool cap in one hand and his cane in the other?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z She stripped the girl of the drenched, ripped clothing, setting it aside, then rubbed her dry with rough cloth, and wrapped her in soft wool. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The ancient Incas obtained vicuna wool by driving wild vicunas into corrals, shearing them, and then releasing them alive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He lectured in a thick wool jacket even in hot weather. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The air stank of burning wool and brimstone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The fur coats, the wool coats, the sweaters, and boots. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Now they came forward dressed in shifts of undyed wool to receive their knighthoods from the Kingsguard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The picture shows a woman knitting on a streetcar, with the ends of her knitting needles poking into the people beside her and her ball of wool unrolling down the aisle. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Every sound reached his ears as though through a thick wool blanket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He walked in the shadows to the barracks, his long wool coat swaying around his feet. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z A boy, about his age, wrapped in an outsized wool coat with the sleeves turned back. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Lupita quickly realized why the pickers all wore straw hats, because her wool baseball cap was unbearably hot. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z All my life, I’ve lived with sheep, drunk their milk, eaten their meat, washed their fleece, carded their wool. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z The goat gives milk, the sheep gives wool, the cow gives everything. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z To make it, she cut out two small ovals of bright red wool. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of him was wrapped in layers of wool and boiled leather and ringmail, his features shadowed by his hooded cloak and a black woolen scarf about the lower half of his face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Even Kaz had foregone his immaculately cut suit in favor of a bulky wool coat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The silvery pellawi-fur dried fast, and as soon as the wool of the facing was at least warm, if not dry, he wrapped himself in it and stretched out by the firepit. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z With her ragged black hair and her black punk clothes, an old wool overcoat wrapped around her, she looked like some kind of huge raven, completely out of place in the white landscape. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I put my hand in my pocket and felt the crackle of thick paper seventy years old, and the new key weighing heavy in the seam of the threadbare woven wool. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He looks very authoritative—even more so now in his uniform of brass buttons and blue wool—but authority and reason are two different things. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z For the boys there was black wool for trousers and fine white linen for shirts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The warm wool felt good, although it was wet along the edges. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I undo the ties on my blue knitted wool hat, let it flap loose on my head. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We’re one of three meat and wool providers for the town, used to be one of five, soon be one of two because Mr. Marjoribanks oughta be dying from his drink problem any day now. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Wearing jeans and a wool sweater, McCandless looks tan, strong, healthy. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt hot and cramped and smothering in the car, like I’d been tucked in with a giant itchy wool blanket, and suddenly I couldn’t breathe. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Walker frames are conjured into life, knitting wool is enchanted into chaos, and male nurses are made to dance tango. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Cole asked, unfolding a heavy wool blanket, woven with colorful blue-and-red images of a totem pole. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She tied her shoes, threw a wool cloak over her skinny shoulders, and knotted it under her throat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His surcoat was new, dark grey wool with silver buttons, and a heavy silver pin fastened his fur-trimmed cloak at the shoulders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Garvey, still wearing his rumpled jeans and faded wool shirt, hurried to his bedside. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z While thus fascinated by the pitiable clean space hedged around by neglected tufts of wool, the man turned a hard, belligerent face to him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z You will bring your suitcases, of course, and your wool blanket to wrap yourself in, as we will be on the platform for at least an hour. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z His robe was grey wool, trimmed with white fur, the Stark colors. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z From her mother she learned the business of running the house—how to sew neat, tiny stitches, how to spin rough wool into yarn, how to keep crowded chambers clean and orderly. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Their wool was the softest, the most desirable. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z George was out there with a chisel-toothed bucksaw, his wool hat perched on top of his balding head, working on it in the storm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z On the table there, polished now and plain, an ugly case would stand containing butterflies and moths, and another one with birds’ eggs, wrapped in cotton wool. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z For their entrance into Qarth, he had put away his Dothraki garb and donned again the plate and mail and wool of the Seven Kingdoms half a world away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The boy explained that it wasn’t important, since that sheep was the most intelligent of the flock, and produced the most wool. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a puffy, unformed mass of wool leaving something definite and fixed in her wake. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z His hands were gloved in wool and leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The hour of the wolf found him still awake, wrapped in layers of heavy wool and greasy fur, walking yet another circuit of the inner walls, hoping to exhaust himself enough to sleep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A wispy cloud bank stretched low across the horizon, like wool pulled thin by a spinner’s hands. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The room smelled of fresh hay and wool blankets. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He set aside my two pairs of prison underwear, two pairs of socks, two round-neck white T-shirts, a pair of sneakers, a pair of work boots, gloves, and a wool cap. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z His back is to me, and my gaze goes automatically to the sword hanging from his belt, visible beneath his heavy wool cloak. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was up to his old pranks, sending a group of frostbitten horsemen on a wild-goose chase all over Boston in search of nonexistent “bull’s wool” socks. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Korn was there at his bedside, waiting calmly in a chair in his baggy, wool, olive-drab shirt and trousers. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A similar problem has frustrated schemes to breed the vicuna, an Andean wild camel whose wool is prized as the finest and lightest of any animal’s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A hard life had turned his wool gray. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He nodded at Tayo but didn’t say anything; Tayo didn’t understand what he was waiting for until he saw old Grandma wearing her coat and wool scarf, waiting while Auntie put on her coat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Illuminating the bags of food, the sack of silver and tableware, the thick wool blankets of the North, the gold glittering on the drowned girl’s fingers, shining like stars in the crackle of the campfire. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They were content with just food and water, and, in exchange, they generously gave of their wool, their company, and—once in a while—their meat. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “He is buying the wool out of his wages, sir!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He picks up the wool blanket that has fallen to the floor and tucks it around the lump of Carmine’s body, covering the parts that are exposed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Dinah was snuggled against my side, her crepe wool hair standing on end and her dress wrinkled and in need of a wash. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Out of the other end of the spool dangles a round thick wool tail, which you’re supposed to wind up like a flat snail shell and sew into a mat to put the teapot on. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His garb was plain as well: old boots, brown breeches and blue tunic, a woolen mantle of undyed wool, fastened with a wooden clasp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A million droplets of fog bead up on the fuzz of her wool dress and along the warp of her hair, and the light outlines her in silver. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She opened her wool coat and wrapped him up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Lefty says, “Pardon me, excuse me,” feeling thoroughly American as he pulls on his blue wool trousers and jacket. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There are three men with long hair in braids, wearing wool ponchos and hats, the same as the men from my village. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Seated in the chair was a man in a tight-laced leather jerkin and breeches of roughspun brown wool. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Julius struggled with the wool of fear that was clogging his brain. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z She looked plump as she crouched there, but most of that was layers of fur and wool and leather. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I am so happy to see the sun again, and the clouds in the sky like shag wool rugs, and people who aren’t sick. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I scrambled to pick up the scattered wool that hadn’t blown away and placed it back inside the basket. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Exchange my father’s old leather jacket for a fine wool coat that always seems too tight in the shoulders. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The scent of wool and sweat makes him feel as though he is wearing a heavy coat, with the warmth of a scarf around his neck. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Modern merchants wanting this luxury wool have had to resort either to this same method or simply to killing wild vicunas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The day was cold, the sky was as gray as wet wool, but William had never felt so free in his life. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She took a wool scarf and spread it on the ground so the egg could fall into it, and then she squatted down and began to push. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z His cloak was made of soft brown wool lined with sandsilk, a goodly garment. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The other man wore a traveler's cloak of undyed wool, the hood thrown back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She muttered while she worked, never resting, only pausing from time to time to hike up the waist of her wraparound pagne underneath her wool sweater. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As she straightened at last, and gathered her bowl and all the soiled cotton wool, a doctor came and she was dismissed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She was wearing the new blue wool dress for the first time, with a snowy white collar and deep cuffs, and she had never looked lovelier. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z While they wait for the train Elizabeth takes out her knitting needles and a skein of deep red wool. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He pulled up the leg of his wool trousers to reveal his bony knee. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z From a great pile of heavy blue wool she pulled a small tuft, caught it in the wire teeth of one board, and drew across it the second board till the fibers were brushed flat. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Instead he wore a fine shirt of lovely cloth and a long coat of the lightest of wool. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z To see the two of them together was a regular jolt: the young man’s head of yellow hair long as a dog’s tail next to her skein of black wool. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Afleece. The coat of a ram is called a fleece. And if that ram happens to have golden wool—” “The Golden Fleece. Are you serious?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He put on some of Leo’s thick wool socks and a pair of his leather boots. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z "You're a prince! Kings and such-like are learned to write and read soon as they tumble out of the cradle. Don't think you can pull the wool over our eyes. Hop to it!" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z The air was hot and humid, pungent with the odors of sweaty wool, sawdust, and animal dung. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She had made it for Charlie because he, too, was outgrowing his clothes, and the old wool shirt their father had left behind hung on him like a nightdress. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z My present was an orange crewneck sweater, slightly stained but made, Mom pointed out, of genuine Shetland wool. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I decided to use my favorite wool blanket, the beautiful red one with weavings of the sun and the birds, as the hanging for the entrance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Both wore shirts of worn leather beneath cloaks of dark brown wool, but their swords were sheathed and the fat man did not look to be in danger. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She was wearing a white sweater, a tweed skirt, short white wool socks, and sneakers. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z I wiped them off on the wool coat I had taken from the passenger. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Old Joe goes to stand by Older Joe, who is wearing a truly terrible purple wool hat and has cranberry sauce caught in his white beard. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z All the gravel was picked out of the cuts and grazes, bit by tiny bit, with cotton wool and a bowl of water, warm and clouded like an opal with Dettol. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The third one held up the messy, unformed puff of wool and threw up her hands. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He lifted their skirts and found petticoats underneath, and knickers, embroidered on to the bodies in black wool, the same as the faces. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Double-entry bookkeeping thus represents an attempt to make the real world, the world of bolts of silk, bales of wool and bags of sugar, mathematically legible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That night she was a sad bear; a great sheep in a wool shawl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes kept wandering over to Baba, bundled up in his wool sweater. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We threw on our dress gray uniforms, including the gray wool pants that scraped every blade of hair off our legs and dark blue cotton shirts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Lieutenant Doherty unrolled his wool army blanket and ordered his men to lay Booth’s body upon it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Some only have sweaters, thin jackets; some, no socks, and some girls aren’t wearing tights or wool leggings. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Eventually, thousands of years after the beginnings of animal domestication and food production, the animals also began to be used for milk, wool, plowing, and transport. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Every once in a while she picks a lint ball off her dark blue wool sweater. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z I was tired of wearing the same pleated wool skirts my sisters wore, but Big Ma wouldn’t hear about anything different. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He wore a three-piece wool suit and fiddled with a small rocket. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z A sweater woven from green and blue and gray strands of kitten-soft wool. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z All the silk and heavy wools that Viserys had worn out of Pentos were stained by hard travel and rotted from sweat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her throat felt like it was coated in wool. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z No zinc tub, no buckets of stove-heated water, no flaky, stiff, grayish towels washed in a kitchen sink, dried in a dusty backyard, no tangled black puffs of rough wool to comb. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Lord Manderly’s household guard wore cloaks of blue-green wool and carried silver tridents in place of common spears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Lots of shepherds passed through, selling their wool. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a big, soft package and inside there was blue-and-gray-plaid wool that looked like a blanket, but it was not a regular blanket, my father said. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I slid down the flaming banister, holding tight with my blanketed elbows and legs, the wool clenched together with my teeth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Stuffing their mittens and wool caps into their pockets, they settled in conscious of their extraordinary good fortune in having escaped temporarily from the snowstorm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Books—pretty good, except Joseph got a copy of Walden, which looked about as boring as wool socks. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z I placed this toadstool inside my basket, making sure that it was cradled by the alpaca wool. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Her dress was grey wool bordered with white satin; over it she wore an ermine cloak clasped with a silver wolf’s head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He found blankets of rich wool, damp but still warm, and dragged them out with the rest of the scavenge. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z She had brought many treats along as a safety precaution, and the wool for her knitting could always be used as a leash in a pinch. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The pages rubbed against my finger-pads like cotton wool as I turned them. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z For four mortal hours she sat on a wooden bench and struggled to grasp the tricky process of carding wool. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z What is left of him: his hair, the bones, the plaid wool shirt, green and black, the leather belt, the work boots. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Hilly’s wearing a red wool A-line dress with a cape coat over it, Sherlock Holmes—style, even though it’s hot as fire in here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z So even if Haupt had money to spend, there was nothing worth buying anyway, unless he wanted to wear clothes made of cellulose "wool." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I unwind the wool scarf from around my head, folding it to hide its ragged ends, and hand my papers to him. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He took a blue wool outfit from a box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z But once there was no more wool to spin, she felt as though her presence in the house just made her mother try less. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z His blue jeans, heavy wool shirt, and rain jacket chafed his skin, but it didn’t matter. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It looked so easy, but the moment Kit took the wool cards into her hands she appreciated Mercy's skill. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She did not even card or spin the wool from their own sheep. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z After about nine meters, I reached a wall of boxes filled with wood wool. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In one deft motion she plucked the wool from the teeth and rolled it into a fluffy ball. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z But I had stitched her crepe wool hair back down and tied the bright scarf back in place, and she was good as new. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He kept the isinglass curtains snapped to the windows to cut off the draughts, and tight around his neck he wore his gray wool shawl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Miss Simpson made a dull speech as she presented Charlie with a gift from the school: a wool stocking cap and some stationery. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She saw some bottles, some white cotton wool, and a carton of milk, but before she could see any more Dustfinger closed the bag. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “The yellow gingham dress or the navy wool skirt and bodice?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It had a puff of wool attached at one end. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z A man wearing a checked wool coat, a long scarf, and a leather top hat helped Albert into the carriage. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z When Bronwyn reached the bottom, she opened her trunk and handed out the peculiar sheep’s wool sweaters we’d been given in the menagerie. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Renouncing all vanity, they gave up their stylish dresses and wore rough wool robes made by Labadist weavers. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I hesitate, sure there are fleas or bedbugs crawling around in the wool and woven reeds. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A gray wool skirt and a thin blue sweater cling suggestively to her sides. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But Judith’s eye had fallen on a light blue wool and she lifted it impulsively. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Naomi asked as she moved on to a deep maroon wool skirt with a matching jacket. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Helen the beautiful came down from her fragrant chamber attended by her women, one carrying her chair, another a soft carpet for her feet, and a third her silver workbasket filled with violet wool. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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