| 单词 | distaff |
| 例句 | Then spinning as they ever did, twirling the distaff and twisting the thread of destiny, they sang, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 And if it couldn’t be answered, I was doomed to the distaff life of only womanly things. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Much more than in the film, the young Czech woman has been made the instigator, almost as if she’s an angel — a distaff version of Clarence in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” At SCR, the musical 'Once' raises its hopeful voice 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Late bloomers are a rare breed in Hollywood, but they are a truly rare breed on the distaff side. Hollywood's late bloomers 2010-08-26T22:00:00Z And these are just a handful of the stories contained in this distaff treasure chest: Every single one is a gem. Close encounters with feminist science fiction in 'Sisters of the Revolution' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z It won’t change, though, if the distaff side talks to themselves. Motherlode: Announcing the Fathers Forum 2011-06-17T19:50:18Z Think of “Consent” as the thematically comparable distaff equivalent from a playwright, Ms. Raine, whose best-known work, “Tribes,” has been produced worldwide. Adultery With a Difference on the London Stage 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z No longer is it a matter of men’s wear trying to horn in on distaff glamour. At New York Men’s Day, Men’s Wear Takes a Turn Front and Center 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The 12 songs below — obscure singles, deep cuts and near misses — reveal a hidden history of distaff pop. 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Besides, critics longing for a silverback alpha male to declare the leader of the pack are never going to glance at the distaff side. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z Tracy’s been wronged, the argument goes, devolving into a cudgel that male commentators can use to trivialize preparedness and perfectionism in distaff candidates. Election at 20: assessing the high school satire's brutal politics 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z With woman’s suffrage finally ratified, Margaret takes Nucky up on his offer to act as distaff power broker, introducing his favored mayoral candidate with an inspirational speech that’s more impressive for its utter disingenuousness. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Women's suffrage arrives 2010-11-22T06:01:00Z With a laugh he quotes Yeats, who said that at a certain age women turn either to the distaff or the broom. A life in books: Colm T?ib?n 2010-10-25T07:00:00Z Mostly, this summer’s distaff stories look a lot like those from previous years: smaller dramas and romances from studio divisions and independents. The Living Is Easy;The Women Are Missing 2011-06-10T19:56:41Z She combined “Last Name,” a humblebrag about a night of immodest barroom behavior, with “Somethin’ Bad,” a Lambert tune chronicling a distaff gang’s crime spree. Carrie Underwood: At the top of her game and loving it 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z New York’s sublime distaff lead, Kelli O’Hara, for one, alongside a capaciousness to the Lincoln Center Theatre incarnation that is hard to approximate within the confines of the Barbican. Theater Review: Boys' Night Out, Girls' Night Out, and 'The Faith Machine' 2011-09-06T12:00:05Z Myriad books have been written about the birth of punk, its cultural godparents in the Warhol Factory and Detroit, and distaff cousins in the United Kingdom, where Margaret Thatcher was punk’s evil stepmother. Was glam any different from pop? Simon Reynolds has the answer in 'Shock and Awe' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z A surprise appearance by subaquatic, recently deceased femmes fatales is another popular trope; the distaff dead, like U-boats, do not like to surface. Joe Queenan's guide to horror film cliches 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z On a whim, Rudolf — who narrates the story — decides to visit this land of his distaff ancestor, intending to watch the coronation of its new king. Review | The most romantic novel you’ve never read 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z But this year, the attention is on the 50th anniversary of the first women’s race, a milestone that is complicated by the thorny history of the distaff division. Boston Marathon marks 50th anniversary of welcoming women 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z She has settled in as a dominant force in distaff sprint races and will be well supported by the bettors. Favorites, top contenders for Day 2 of Breeders’ Cup 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Among them are delicate wooden items such as a small, wood-turned bit for a lamb or goat and a carved distaff for spinning wool - even a Bronze Age ski. 'Spectacular' artefacts found as Norway ice-patch melts 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Her book is a fierce and often very funny guide to the distaff side of geekdom and reproduces photos and examples of Patrick’s work, many previously unpublished. Movie monster maker Milicent Patrick finally gets her due in ‘The Lady From the Black Lagoon’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The premise, right away, appears to be a distaff version of “Groundhog Day,” that classic Zen Buddhist romantic comedy, in which “I Got You, Babe” keeps playing, eternally, at 6 a.m. The Clever Thrill Ride of “Russian Doll” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Eventually, Republican senators jettisoned their distaff mercenary and joined with Kavanaugh in his attempt to cast the fight as partisan. Opinion | Brett Kavanaugh, disrobed 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Of course, Originalists are especially untrustworthy when it comes to women’s rights, since the Framers were noticeably silent in granting distaff power. Brett Kavanaugh's nomination is a victory for 'originalists' | Jill Abramson 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z But the distaff kept moving into what had been pasture. Can Dirt Save the Earth? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Even if a separate, distaff canon is built, the atmosphere against which it’s being constructed is, gradually, becoming more integrated. Should Women Make Their Own Pop Music Canon? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Songbird, arguably the best female horse running, is stabled at Santa Anita but was sent to New York instead of making the Beholder Mile one of the best distaff races in recent memory. Entry shortage forces Santa Anita to cancel another day of racing 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Wrote Mike: “While some of the distaff staffers acknowledge that it is something that Rickover has even acknowledged the NSW, some had wished for something a little more endearing.” How do you tell Adm. Rickover that you messed up his new office? 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z In the distaff, she drew the rail and will face older females for the first time, but she should continue to roll. Breeders’ Cup 2016: Who We Think Will Win the Key Races 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Wick was especially bothered by the advance of a prickly, yellow-flowered invasive weed called the woolly distaff thistle. Can Dirt Save the Earth? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s distaff supporters generally went out of their way to balance their distaste for the language heard in the leaked tapes while labeling the Trump deserters the moral equivalent of “rat finks.” Republican women stand by Donald Trump, blast those jumping ship over ‘antique locker-room talk’ 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z More details from the WSJ/NBC News poll: Another poll, from Fox News, finds Mrs. Clinton on the distaff side of a “gender gap” among Democrats—and quite a gap it is. The Safety Dance 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Actually, I do see the merits of a distaff leader, assuming she’s the candidate who most closely represents what’s best for the country. The case for a national Powder Room Initiative 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z On the distaff side, last year’s winner, Mary Cain, returns to defend her crown. World-Class Fun Run: NYC’s Millrose Games at the Armory 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The dramatic victory enhanced her standing as one of the top distaff sprinters in the nation. Artemis Agrotera wins Belmont’s Gallant Bloom 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Riding the appropriately named Believe You Can, she became the first female jockey to win the Kentucky Oaks – the distaff equivalent of the Kentucky Derby. Rosie Napravnik: 'I had a dream of winning the Kentucky Derby on Shanghai Bobby' 2013-01-25T13:00:00Z There was a separate distaff hose, and after a while, I noticed that one of the women seemed to be hogging it. The Corner Where Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan Meet 2012-10-18T22:47:58Z And while we wait for Vicky Featherstone to assume the reins as artistic director of the Royal Court in 2013, the end of the year finds two major musicals in distaff hands. IHT Rendezvous: More Often These Days, the Director Is a She 2012-10-09T17:10:50Z If they were to attack us with their distaffs and with stones hidden in their long sleeves, what should we do? Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and God will send thee flax. Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words 2012-03-29T02:00:12.730Z Our ladies too at that period had not forgotten the use of the distaff, and occasionally employed that antiquated instrument of domestic labor for the benefit of others as well as of themselves. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z “His lion spoils the laughing Fair demands, And gives the distaff to his awkward hands.” Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z His character was bad, and he had long forfeited such claim as he had ever possessed--I believe it was a misty one? on the distaff side--to gentility. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Huysmans came of a solid bourgeois family; Dutch on the paternal side, his father hailed from Breda, and Parisian on the distaff. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z We slept more safely under the distaff than others under the sword; and all because my lady had the right to wear among her sixteen quarterings the coat of Tilly. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z She generally took with her a distaff and spindle filled with wool, indicative of the first work in her new married life—spinning fresh garments for her husband. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z Excellent; it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs, and spin it off. Twelfth Night or, What You Will 2012-02-18T03:00:14.920Z At length each cluster reaches its perfection, and becomes a solid distaff of sometimes two—yes, even six—thousand of the waxen blossoms! The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z He had called her names, bidding her mind her distaff; then had carried in mischief the story to his love, who set herself straightway to be revenged upon my lady. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z With a great oath he roughly wrenched the weapon from her, and bade her go mind her distaff. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z But where the distaff excludes from the throne, there is the government of females; for the women, that please the king's eyes, have his heart in their hand. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z In the distance Eve is suckling her first-born and holding a distaff. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z From the Fates' distaff, sure, these kerchiefs came. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z Lachesis, lak′e-sis, n. the one of the three Fates who assigned to each mortal his destiny—she spun the thread of life from the distaff held by Clotho. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z From the letters we find that she spun flax, and amongst the objects mentioned in her inventory are a spindle, distaff, and winding reels. The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria 2012-01-10T03:00:13.777Z Shame!" cried they, "that we must obey a woman, who gathers our victorious laurels to decorate a distaff with them! Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z The late owner of the "Hundred" did not even bear the family patronymic, his Hildebrand descent being on the distaff side. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z In Germany a broomstick, a club, or a distaff, became suitable vehicles, provided they had been properly anointed. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z This weft was spun entirely by hand with a distaff and spindle—the same process in which the women of England had been engaged for centuries; and which we see represented in ancient drawings. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Thus they sent linen yarn for warp, and raw cotton—which the weaver had first to card and spin on a common distaff—for weft. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z Boatmen, husbandmen, palankeen carriers, domestic servants, everyone, in fact, being Hindu—for Mussulmans spin cotton only—pass their leisure moments, distaff in hand, spinning gunny twist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Here the mother came, not as duenna, but as companion, with her distaff and spindle, and talked and span until I could no longer distinguish the thread against her gray dress. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z I said, ‘Coax Peder, and he will bring you a little flax for money and a distaff.’ Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z He drove the Cow home and returned to the forest with ten distaffs, five of which he fastened about the Fox’s neck and five about his tail. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z While we have land to labour then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench, or twirling a distaff. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z The swine ate out of silver troughs, and the women spun with distaffs of gold.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z For the first time that year, the races for females and male were segregated, with the distaff races taking place Friday, and the rest of the races run Saturday. The Rail: Here's to the Distaffers, the Stars of the Show 2011-11-04T18:12:30Z Reared on the frontier, where life was a struggle, she could use the rifle and the implements of agriculture as well as the distaff and spinning-wheel. Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln 2011-10-24T02:00:19.173Z The earliest spinning apparatus, and for ages the only one, was the distaff and spindle. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z She conceals him under the table, and takes up her distaff again. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Now, though Maisie was an idle girl, she had no wish to be shut up in a nunnery; so she tried not to think of the sunshine outside, but sat down soberly with her distaff. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z Her ample gown is of cream-hued linen, Her grandsons raised the flax, and her grand-daughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel. Walt Whitman An Address 2011-09-26T02:00:30.337Z To the second there was this objection, that when I occasionally caught a front view of "my lady," she showed no distaff, upon which she might have re-wound her unravelled thread. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z The spindle, a tapering rod smaller than the distaff, was held in the right hand. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z They must be witches—and it was my distaff— Will fire eat through me.... King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z That night she cried herself to sleep; and next morning, seeing that it was quite hopeless to expect to get her task finished, she threw down her distaff in despair, and ran out of doors. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z While her sheep were pasturing Jeannette sat down near the Fountain of the Fairies, shaded by the centennarian beech tree; and mechanically she plied her distaff. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z When not engaged in study, the maidens spent much time with the needle or distaff; while Edward hunted or trained hawks. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z The King was so anxious to guard his dear child from the misfortune, that he sent out a command that all the distaffs in the whole kingdom should be burned. Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z The distaff breaks, and Hallgerd drives them out with her hands. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z And when the old woman saw it disappearing, she ran after it as fast as her legs would carry her, holding her spindle in one hand and her distaff in the other. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z Active and industrious, she helped her mother in the household, led the sheep to pasture and was skilful with the needle and at the distaff. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z “Never again shalt thou leave us, little one,” declared Adiva, one day, as she and the maiden employed themselves as in the olden days with shuttle and distaff. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z During the celebration of these rites, they remained at home, plying the distaff and the spindle, and singing over their tasks. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z They gave her a distaff to spin," said Zagloba; "but she danced with it, since she had no one better to dance with. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Quiet, crooked distaff, dried rue!" said he; "I will not cut thy throat, for why should I give the Devil that which is his anyhow? The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Always reserved before her parents, who were foreign to the vast designs fermenting within her brain, Joan silently worked away at her distaff, losing not a single word of the reports that she heard. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z A loom and distaff were on one side, with great bunches of yarn beside them. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z The cotton is cleared from the seed by hand, and is spun with a spindle and distaff: it is afterwards woven in a loom of very simple and coarse workmanship. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z But Pan Zagloba laughed at me more than once, because I have more love for the sabre than the distaff. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z I will have thy knife, And thou shalt have my distaff and go spin!’ Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z She fought intrepidly and made havoc with her distaff, which was garnished with a thick bunch of hemp—a terrible weapon, as many discovered that day. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z The girl soon became an expert in the use of spindle and distaff, and busily did the shuttles fly through the long winter evenings. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z The spinners sprang to their feet; the flax and the distaffs fell to the floor. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Well, a distaff or a needle would have helped me greatly! Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z The men as they now lie, have by them their broken bows; and the women their spinning-wheels and distaffs with cotton yarn upon them. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z Jeannette continued, mechanically, to ply her distaff while her eyes, with an absent minded look in them, followed her sheep. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Meek, mouse-colored donkeys, laden with panniers of freshly-cut grass, passed by, with a pretty girl in a capaline sitting between the green piles, or an old woman spinning with a distaff as she went. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z They spun and spun on; the threads were winding, the wheel was buzzing, the distaff played in the hand of Panna Kulvyets, the shaggy-haired man of Jmud rattled on with his mill. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Dickon hath as good blood on the distaff side as any his father can boast.—But to the matter of the castle’s defense in need. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Though they do say that the Cawdors have gipsy blood on the distaff side. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Mary liked to take her distaff there and spin. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z And in the first book of the same treatise he says the same thing about the distaff, and about the flowers which are productive. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The mere masculine repugnance of the man of action to lower the spear before the distaff would in any case probably have induced him to reject the proposal of the Tory lords. William the Third 2011-07-31T02:00:12.077Z See, here is the bow on the distaff. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z Ha! take thy distaff and spin night and day; for thousands of brave men are slumbering in the snow! The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z Machinery is fast displacing the poetry of farm and fireside; the sickle, the distaff, the chimney-piece, the family institution, being superseded by prose powers; and, with their sway, have come slavery, pusillanimity, dishonor. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z He went straight in, and found an old fury, whose name was Jandza, inside; she was spinning from a distaff, and singing. Polish Fairy Tales 2011-07-10T02:00:20.137Z At the moment several new factors are combining to favour the distaff side more. Women in political dynasties: The distaff of office 2011-07-07T10:49:11Z Aas� took her distaff, and sat down to work by the window, for the interior of the room was now quite dark. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z And Louise, laying down her distaff, hurried away to contemplate "The King of Diamonds." The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z With a distaff and a rosary in her hand, she resumed her station by the Drost's couch before the lamp, which she drew aside, that it might not shine in the face of the patient. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z The ball of thread went straight into the palace, and the ferry-man found himself in a vast apartment, where sat a very dignified old lady, spinning from a golden distaff. Polish Fairy Tales 2011-07-10T02:00:20.137Z It is said by classic writers that the spindle was always, when in use, accompanied by the distaff, as "an indispensable part of the apparatus." The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z "Then give me thy gown and thy female attire," said Robin, "and put thee on my livery of green: give me also thy distaff and spindle, and take my arrows and bow." Amusing Prose Chap Books 2011-06-27T02:01:05.043Z The Titan steam is the servant of commerce and industry, meek as Hercules when armed with the distaff of Omphale. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z On the distaff side, the winner is likely to be Frances McDormand, whose performance as a struggling single mother in “Good People” is certainly richly deserving. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Women on the Verge of Disappearing From the Stage 2011-06-09T21:25:30Z So, while she twisted her distaff, she told the stirring tales of warriors, saints, and fairies, whom all Breton peasants honor, love, and fear. Spinning-Wheel Stories 2011-05-28T02:00:23.707Z We know that the distaff and spindle have never been lost where once known, in the old world. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Everyone makes the tour of town or village to see le Vecchie who at sundown are consigned 268 to the flames, generally with a distaff placed in their hands. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The jug descended in a Sussex County, Delaware, family—on the distaff side, curiously. North Devon Pottery and Its Export to America in the 17th Century 2011-05-14T02:00:10.023Z Aunt Catherine's children were members of the family only on the distaff side, and so were of less importance. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z Goody Brown was busy with her spinning-wheel, treading it vigorously with one foot, and drawing out the finest and evenest thread from a hank of flax that formed her distaff, into a tall, gray cone. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z The distaff has been identified with spinning in the eastern world from the earliest times. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z I was spinning at my distaff when I heard a loud noise; it was a gun-shot, it re-echoed in my heart. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z What an odd fight will it be to see maids and scholars, desks and cradles, books and distaffs, pens and spindles, one among another? Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes 2011-04-28T02:00:15.367Z In ancient and modern art the Fates are usually represented with the distaff, engaged in spinning the thread of life. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Give them your swords, and take instead their distaffs, And let the colour which has fled your cheeks Rest in hot blushes on the veteran brows Of your more valiant fathers. Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts 2011-04-14T02:00:57.593Z The shank of the distaff on such occasions was secured by a sheath or strap to the person; or, as in the preceding figure of a modern spinner, was held under the left arm. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z The bride's-maids carried the distaff, with the bundle of flax, and the prettily adorned bridal broom, made of white birch twigs; simple emblems of industry and order for the future household. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z They say it will be so till Dame Dreary lays down her distaff, and dances; but all the fiddlers of the north country have tried their merriest tunes to no purpose. Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times 2011-04-12T02:00:26.413Z And fling yon wheel and distaff to the wall, And fly to thee, my love, who art mine all! Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z No Hercules could wear the irresistible weapons and the lion's skin with more natural supremacy; but none could make more miserable work with the distaff. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z In this singular process, the classical mode is completely reversed—the spindle, or that which corresponds to it, is held at rest, and the distaff put in motion, in which respect the operation is unique. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Hercules with a distaff was bad enough; but here, in the vagaries and metamorphoses of heathen mythology, do you read of Hercules with a dishclout? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Round her sat twelve maidens of the same aspect, spinning on ancient distaffs, and the lady spun as hard as they, but all the yarn they made was jet black. Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times 2011-04-12T02:00:26.413Z Ah! there, I’m far behind her: my poor hands are red and big; they’ve had to work and weave; while hers, I dare say, never touched a distaff. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Others were spinning with a distaff and spindle. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II 2011-03-24T02:00:13.247Z It is not represented, and appears not to have existed any more than the distaff. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z The women plied the distaff, or rocked the cradle, and prattled to their children of the heroic legends of Troy, Fiesole, and Rome. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z As he came near, the dame cast down her distaff, and danced with all her might. Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times 2011-04-12T02:00:26.413Z My hands lie for my breasts to soothe, Of playing and of distaffs tired; My white hands, my hands desired, Seem asleep on waters smooth. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z “Yes, for those pharaohs forgot the sword for the distaff,” retorted Rameses. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z Compare the products of the distaff and spindle of old with that of our mills, and how difficult to realize the change which modern mechanism has wrought! The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z "The Rooms," the Temple of Fortune, the ordeal of destiny, Bob, is held here; and the rake of the croupier is the distaff of the Fate. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Mothers themselves tended the cradle, and maidens and matrons drew off the thread from the distaff, while listening to old tales of Troy, Fiesole, and Rome. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z These women congregated in great numbers, each spinning cotton with a spindle and distaff, which were precisely like those in use among the ancient Egyptians. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Housed alone, the distaff rats experienced significantly less neurogenesis than female rodents with roommates, even though both groups ran similar distances on their wheels. Well: Phys Ed: Does Loneliness Reduce the Benefits of Exercise? 2011-02-09T05:01:24Z A second person performs the part of a distaff, which, as the thread lengthens, recedes from the spinner, or the spinner from it. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Agap� found the sisters sitting round the fateful distaff, which Clotho held while Lachesis span the threads that measured out men's lives, and cruel Atropos cut them in twain. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene 2011-02-06T03:00:52.580Z Go to your house and see to your own duties, the loom and the distaff, and bid your handmaidens perform their tasks. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z There was no one within, but an old woman, with her distaff by her side, and spindle in her hand. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z In silence the poor girl will untie her bridal ribbons, will put off her wedding robes, and returning to her household work, will resume her distaff—all without expressing one bitter word. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z Of the offices assigned to the fates, that of Clotho was to hold the distaff, while Lachesis twirled the spindle, and Atropos determined the length of the thread. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z For is sweet docility a general's badge? and is this baton but a distaff then?—Here's something widely wrong. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Yes, she was very welcome, said the princess, and took the distaff. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z Silent are the loom and distaff, In the cabin and the cottage, And the songs of scythe and sickle Gathering in the golden harvests. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z Yes, child, the best of lucks; but it's my opinion that, if we 'get spindle and distaff ready, the Lord will send the flax,' without our goin' to look for't. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z Both spindle and distaff were frequently dedicated to Minerva, the patroness of spinning and of the arts connected with it. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Give me a distaff to spin with, and a penny cake.” Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z When the princess saw the distaff, she wanted that also, and opened the window, and asked what she would sell it for. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z Ivanka was received at the door of Milenko's house by his father and mother, and there, after the usual welcome, she was presented with two distaffs, two spindles, and a baby-boy, borrowed for the occasion. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z My mother was already there, making her distaff whirr between her two fingers as she sat in the light of a rosin candle, and my brother Yvon was finishing a wooden butter-spoon. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z The crown was concealed in her lap, and the distaff consisted of the sword and sceptre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z He gave her a distaff and spindle, of silver-gilt, and a silk handkerchief. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z The maiden seated herself on the horse, and rode for many days and weeks; at last she again arrived at a mountain where an old woman sat spinning with a golden distaff. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z Amongst these were, as usual, two distaffs and a spindle, for spinning had not yet entirely gone out of fashion. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z At last Victor entered, and everybody applauded, the young girls lengthening out their distaffs to do him reverence. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Stubbornly, my colleagues refuse to admit the distaff side. Few modern sporting comebacks tend to pass Muster| Kevin Mitchell 2010-10-25T23:06:00Z If the distaff side want equal pay, they should provide equal entertainment. Maria Sharapova ensures there is no Hollywood ending for Beatrice Capra 2010-09-05T21:18:00Z But when sports scientists recreate classic men-only experiments with distaff subjects, the women often react quite differently. Phys Ed: What Exercise Science Doesn't Know About Women? 2010-06-30T04:01:00Z The talent and accomplishments on the distaff side is staggering at the top for both states. California Gets The Nod In This Rivalry 2010-05-18T04:00:00Z The 3-year-old filly nipped Evening Jewel by a nose in the distaff version of the Kentucky Derby, cementing her status as the successor to superstar Rachel Alexandra. Rain disrupts Derby morning routines 2010-05-01T20:35:00Z She holds a distaff in her hand, reaching from heaven to earth. Heathen Mythology Before he went to the conflict he hung a distaff of fine linen by the altar of the Virgin. A Blot on the Scutcheon Near the entrance wretched crones, with the distaff and spindle of the Fates, sat in the dust, spinning what might have been the thread of sorrow. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise We have But put away the distaff and the needle. Yolanda of Cyprus "You've really rather a classic sort of nose, and you'll have a big distaff and spindle, and be spinning as you talk." The School by the Sea "My duais," replied the enchantress, "is to fill the cavity of my arm with wool, and the hole I shall bore with my distaff with red wheat." Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry Another time I went to the barracks and so forth; I found everywhere the like, a hundred sorts of business carried on, from works of art to the distaff. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. Then the little maiden at the distaff gave a deep sigh, and said dolefully: 'Oh good God! if they would only decree that such little children should not spin.' Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. The distaff and the needle—it may be. Yolanda of Cyprus That pointing with pride—a gesture which you Kentuckians so enjoy—well, with my little girl, it will all be done toward the distaff branch. The Tempering She told him she had gone too near the fire and accidentally burnt all the flax that was on her distaff. Tales of Passed Times All the court came to look at the distaff, and Schoning declared that this was the implement with which Little Thomrose had injured herself. On the Heights A Novel Septimine held her distaff in one hand and in the other a little wooden casket. The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess She was sitting at the window, spinning coarse yarn, and a great bound her distaff gave at the sight of him. Edelweiss A Story She ate her dinner alone and then sat down to work at the distaff. The Shoemaker's Apron A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales If such workers had not fastened a book to the distaff, insanity would surely have set in. The American Country Girl They both sat spinning at the same distaff, and, while they worked, their voices joined in merry songs. On the Heights A Novel Childeric mechanically obeyed the orders of the young girl, sat down on the floor, and began to play huckle-bones, while Septimine, with apparent unconcern, spun at her distaff near the window. The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess The so-called Loi Salique was in force among the Peruvians, even though they had never heard of the original heresy concerning the sceptre and distaff. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) Then there was a rocky prominence, at one side of which was something like a sitting figure, but its shadow, lying on the ground, was that of a girl with a distaff. Mopsa the Fairy There they sat, the distaff between their knees, the spindle in their hands, beautiful pictures of noble German womanhood. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Walpurga was sitting at her distaff and telling the prince in the cradle the story of the King of the Carps, who swims about at the bottom of the lake. On the Heights A Novel She layeth her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle. The Bible Story Their hands knew the rush of the thread on the wheel, the touch of the distaff, and were even not unacquainted at need with the weight of musket and bird-gun. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) Their discarded distaffs these martial ladies sent to recreant knights who had preferred staying at home to crusading. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) "Then," her brother relates, "the little maiden at her distaff gave a deep sigh and said dolefully, 'Oh, good God, if they would only decree that little girls should not spin!" Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Again the succession was denied, daughters only were born to him, and distaff succeeded distaff. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Aloys released the distaff and received as ransom a hearty kiss. Black Forest Village Stories She inherited heroic blood on the distaff side, for her mother, two years before, had held the same fort with but four armed men against an attack by the Iroquois, the siege lasting two days. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) They sit upon the ground, use the left hand for a distaff, and with the right hand roll the spindle dexterously on the naked thigh. Oriental Women Then follow maid-servants with a distaff, a spindle, and wool, intimating that she is to labor at spinning, as did the Roman matrons of the old time. Roman Women The maid-servants followed with distaff, spindle, and wool, and a boy from the Lowther Arcade bore the playthings—the crepundia—for the family with which it is to be hoped Rosa will be blessed. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Mary Ann had received a fine new distaff set with pewter. Black Forest Village Stories When Theseus came to the palace, he went straight to the upper chamber of his mother, where she was spinning wool with a distaff of ivory. Tales of Troy and Greece Telemachus gently rebukes his mother for interrupting the song of the minstrel, and bids her return to her chamber and to her own housewiferies, the loom and distaff, and bid the handmaids ply their tasks. Greek Women The king himself followed the plow, while his wife and daughters were busy with the distaff and spindle, the hand loom and the needle. Roman Women Zloboha was standing at a window of the palace looking down into the courtyard when she saw the boy with a golden distaff. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales Footnote 9: Clotho holds the distaff, Lachesis spins the thread, and Atropos severs it. Black Forest Village Stories When he laid before her the sword and the shoon, the distaff fell from her hand, and she hid her head in a fold of her robe. Tales of Troy and Greece He bids her return to her own tasks, the loom and distaff, while he provides for war. Greek Women "Nay, nay; he is as pure as a lamb," said Candida, twirling her distaff. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June There’s that boy again sitting near the gate and this time he has a golden distaff!” Czechoslovak Fairy Tales He changed his position to a more comfortable one, and was just about to begin his story, when the landlady put away her distaff and went up to her guests at the table. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace Oh, shame!" cried they, "that we are subject to a woman who gathers our laurels that she may twine them round her distaff. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Fable gathered up an armful of the threads, took distaff and spindle, and tripped singing into the chamber. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. He spent his days at the villa, lying at S�nnica's feet, watching her spin the bright colored wool from the distaff or give the finishing touches to her toilette, assisted by her slaves. Sónnica So Zloboha went and got Dobrunka’s feet, wrapped them up, and gave them to the boy in exchange for the distaff. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales And shuddering over her whole frame, Godegisele dropped her head upon her bosom, and her distaff fell down at her feet. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres For she gives hearing to wise councillors; but when the distaff excludes from the throne, there is female government; for the girls, who please the king's eyes, have possession of his heart. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors He turned with stifled rage towards the old women, who were rubbing their eyes, and searching for their distaffs. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. And our beautiful white heifers with yellow heads!" said Mamm' Margarid shrugging her shoulders and never quitting her distaff, "our sheep whose fleece is so nice and thick.... The Gold Sickle or Hena, The Virgin of The Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul If any one asks you what you want for the distaff, say two feet and don’t exchange it for anything else.” Czechoslovak Fairy Tales At this moment the count's wife dropped her distaff which she held across her knees and said to the slave in a tremulous voice: "And so, Morise, you saw her assassinated?" The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Sir; it will be related in pompous narrative, ‘once for his amusement he tried knotting, nor did this Hercules disdain the distaff.’ The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries The old woman was at the door, spinning at her distaff, and as she was very deaf she had not heard the clamour. Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes Spanish and Portuguese Folklore Margarid raised her distaff and gave the signal for the combat to begin; the lowering of the distaff was to be the signal for the combat to end. The Gold Sickle or Hena, The Virgin of The Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul Betushka had no distaff, so she wound the flax around her head. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales The bishopess works at the distaff, spins and weaves like a skilful housekeeper, and also oversees the hospital which we opened for sick women. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres If, happily, there were not proof to the contrary, we might be apt to imagine that the women of those days came into the world only “to ply the distaff, broider, card, and sew.” The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries “I would give thee my jewels, which cannot be weighed nor measured; I would give thee my golden loom and my distaff of burnished silver,” said Lady Clare. Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes Spanish and Portuguese Folklore "It is a very short and simple story," answered Margarid plying her distaff. The Gold Sickle or Hena, The Virgin of The Isle of Sen. A Tale of Druid Gaul Zloboha took the spindle and, delighted with her bargain, carried it into her chamber where she had the wheel and distaff. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales After the morning repast the women take up their distaffs, or some other domestic work. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres She had gone too near the fire, she told him, and had burnt all the flax that was on her distaff. Old-Time Stories So frightened was she at the approach of the animal that she hit him over the head with her distaff, and cried out, “Abernuncio!” Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes Spanish and Portuguese Folklore The stone front, by Adam, has a sculptured medallion of a country girl spinning with a distaff, emblematic of the name of the lane, and of the thread used by cordwainers or shoemakers. Old and New London Volume I Take this distaff and go to the palace. Czechoslovak Fairy Tales Others still were walking about with a ball of wool in one hand and a distaff in the other, spinning yarn. Across Asia on a Bicycle Above all, the entire school is minus virility; its music is of the distaff, and has not the masculine ring of crossed swords. Ivory Apes and Peacocks It was sister Anne, anxious to “get in” as a “Daughter” and wear a distaff pin in her shirt-waist, who discovered the revolutionary ancestor. The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys But within the citadel was an image of Pallas, three ells long, with a spear in one hand and a distaff in the other, which was called the Palladium. Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History That is why I can’t exchange the distaff for anything but two feet.” Czechoslovak Fairy Tales Let us see there is a prince, for I am weary of the distaff.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) The distaff and spindle was still, as I have said, in extensive use in the district. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Those persons who were convicted of bigamy were condemned to be publicly flogged, and, sometimes, to be afterward hanged,—in the latter case, they were executed between two distaffs. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 Thence came the custom that when a maiden became a bride, her attendants carried a distaff trimmed with combed wool, and a spindle with yarn upon it. Needlework As Art The mighty one was wearing the woman’s kirtle and carrying her distaff, and the girl was staggering under the lion-skin and leaning on the bludgeon. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards In the whorl of the distaff of necessity there are eight concentric whorls. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The girl who is to be the wife of Moses, when he first sees her at the desert well, has fruit in her left hand, but a distaff in her right. Saint Ursula Story of Ursula and Dream of Ursula This evidently signifies that the kingdom of the lilies shall not fall under the sway of a distaff. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 The spindle and distaff are proved by the perforated spindle-whorls, made of stone, pottery, or bone, commonly met with in Neolithic habitations or tombs. Needlework As Art In one, women are filling a distaff with cotton, twisting it with a spindle into thread, and weaving this on an upright loom. Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference A thread from the distaff of Omphale may be stronger than the club of Hercules. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Nay, mother, nay; behold this sea-green scarf, Woven of such threads as never human hand Twined from the distaff. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her | hands hold the distaff. The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy The spindle and distaff, or perforated spindle whorls, are of stone, pottery, or bone, such as are constantly found in Neolithic tombs and habitations. Needlework As Art In some instances the spinners make thread from the cotton wool by using the left hand as a distaff, and the right one as a spindle. Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference The modern name for this stick is Distaff, a word which is derived from the Low German—diesse, the bunch of flax on a distaff, and staff. The Story of the Cotton Plant The sailors, children, and Italians coming over the border bought her wares, and when she was not employed in serving them she twisted flax on a distaff. Harper's Young People, September 28, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Her emblem was a distaff with two crossed arrows, and her name was written with a figure of a weaver's shuttle. The Religion of Ancient Egypt Miss Seward.—“That would be Hercules with the distaff indeed!” The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual While thus he spoke;—started, and trembling dropp'd “Her distaff, and her spindle from her hand “Nerveless. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II As this marks the end of the Christmas festival, work with the distaff was commenced, hence the name, St. Distaff's Day. The Story of the Cotton Plant And Jesus, having finished speaking, sat Down on a bench was in the humble place, And with His blest hands for a moment's space, He touched the distaff, rocked the little one. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul He never went out of his palace, but spent all his time amongst a company of women, dressed and painted like them, and employed like them at the distaff. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Similar are the tales commonly related by our women and maidens while spinning at the distaff, also those which knaves are fond of relating. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Excellent; it hangs like Flax in a distaff. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare It is also called "Rock Day," rock being another name for distaff. The Story of the Cotton Plant The woman rose, and not a word said she, Without a pause her distaff laid aside, And left the cradle where the orphan cried, Took up the jar, and with the beggar went. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul So when we relate similar circumstances concerning M. Cousin, we p. 139must nevertheless add, with discriminating eulogy: M. Cousin, if he has sometimes sat twaddling at the distaff, has never laid aside the lion’s skin. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete She had thrown her distaff on the ground, and was picking up the pieces of the yellow scaldino to see if it could possibly be fitted together again. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children They spun thread with spindle and distaff, and wove it into cloth upon a loom. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII The reign of Henry VII. is said to have witnessed the introduction into England of the spindle and distaff. The Story of the Cotton Plant My acting adjutant was Scotch on his distaff side, a descendant of Colonel Mackay, who climbed the Heights of Abraham with the immortal Wolfe. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders When we sing the praises of a Hercules, we must also mention that he once laid aside the lion’s skin and sat down to the distaff: what then? he remains notwithstanding a Hercules! The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete Our grandmothers' learning consisted of yore In spreading their generous boards; In twisting the distaff, or mopping the floor, And obeying the will of their lords. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Homer describes noble ladies handling the distaff with the spindle belonging to it. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life That will gain you more grace than handling the thread and distaff à la Hercules.” Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora Well, I do not grudge the family if, as I believe is the case, it chiefly ranks upon the distaff side. The Dop Doctor When the leaves have been browsed, the stem next loses its cuticle, thanks to the nibbling of the grub, and is reduced to a ragged distaff. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Gentle lady, My father, who is Warder of this tower, Bade me come hither and ask thee if thou wouldst That I should hold thy distaff, or might render Some other service. Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts Her hands, being thus not required either for the horse or for the vessel, were employed in spinning, as she walked along, by means of a distaff and spindle. Darius the Great Makers of History Occupation was found for all, from the child of five years to the oldest woman who could hold a distaff. The Red True Story Book The old Dowager Duchess of Strome, a bosom friend of my mother's, was Biddy's aunt, and Cardinal Voisey, handsome being! is an uncle on the distaff side. The Dop Doctor When she awoke she thought for a moment that she still held the stone, but she only grasped the knob of her distaff. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Draw me no Fates with solemn faces, holding distaffs and deadly snipping shears. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York During the long nights she had spun incessantly, and round the distaff was turned a thread, finer than the finest web of the spider; human eyes were unable to distinguish the separate threads. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales The ladies ridiculed these men for their cowardice and want of spirit, and they sent them their distaffs as presents. Richard I Makers of History My mother, Margarid, as calm as when she held the distaff in the corner of her own fireplace, was leaning against the oak panel which formed the body of the chariot. The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death During the long evenings she had spun constantly, and round the distaff were woven threads finer than the web of a spider; human eyes could never have distinguished these threads when separated from each other. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The distaff and spindle allow our imitating the industry of insect spinners; etc. Essay on the Creative Imagination When she awoke, she thought for a moment that she still held the stone, but it was the knob of her distaff that she was grasping. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales In the morning she took her wheel and spun a whole distaff full; there was still no news. Laboulaye's Fairy Book In her case, too, we notice the distant background: Egyptian presents she has, as well as Menelaus, "a golden distaff and a silver basket bound in gold." Homer's Odyssey A Commentary It was still night, and her father slept; she pressed a kiss upon his hand, and then took her distaff and fastened the end of the thread to her father's house. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen All this must ‘fall to the distaff’ and go out of the family unless my daughter should marry her cousin, Leonidas Force. Her Mother's Secret She pressed a kiss on his hand, and then took her distaff, and fastened the end of the thread to her father's house. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales A beautiful young girl was seated near them, with her distaff, spinning gold thread. Laboulaye's Fairy Book But the son's harsh reproof of the mother, with which his speech closes, bidding her look after her own affairs, the loom and distaff and servants, is probably an interpolation. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Arachne started with forefinger and thumb, and had not even a distaff; yet thou seest Manchester, and Cotton Cloth, which will shelter naked backs, at twopence an ell. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. “Have you forgotten that the Earldom of Enderby, failing male heirs, descends to the female line? ‘falls to the distaff,’ as old writers call it?” Her Mother's Secret Then the cellarer's men came seizing gate and stool by way of distress till the women turning out, distaff in hand, put them ignominiously to flight. Stray Studies from England and Italy "Oh!" cried Finette, laying down the distaff, "there are the firebrands falling all over the room." Laboulaye's Fairy Book The uncanny little man burst out laughing, and taking her distaff set to work at once. Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen "If I can only get to my good men and true!" thought Robin; and he sprang up from the little flax-wheel with the distaff in his hand, and ran out of the open door. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes For that reason the pressure from the distaff side is usually a little heavier. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 He found her in her bower, plying her distaff, and fell upon her with such impetuosity that the young lady lost her innocence without, so to speak, realizing that she had done so. The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920 Around her lay several distaffs, full of different kinds of materials ready for spinning—flax, hemp, wool, silk, and others. Laboulaye's Fairy Book In old pictures and woodblock engravings some curious illustrations are met with showing Englishwomen using the distaff. Chats on Household Curios The vegetables were contained in wide beds, where, at different spots, arose dwarf cypresses and trees cut in distaff fashion. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life This was to make from the splinters of her distaff a little ship, and to launch it into the water without touching it. Finnish Legends for English Children She sat down at her husband's feet, while servants ran to bring the mat which she was weaving and the distaff filled with fine-spun purple thread. Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece When she had finished her task the fairy stretched out her trembling hand at random, took the first distaff that came, and began to spin. Laboulaye's Fairy Book The distaff and the spindle belonged to an age little understood now, and the occupations of the women of that date are almost forgotten. Chats on Household Curios At first they walked past the trees cut like distaffs, without a word being spoken on either side. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Then Wainamoinen took the pieces of her distaff and set to work. Finnish Legends for English Children They had, distaff in hand, been sitting, spinning, and talking over affairs in general, if not those of their neighbours, when they had been aroused by the unwelcome sounds of the battering-ram. The Three Midshipmen This distaff, which I have taken at random, decides the fate of all who are born while I am spinning it. Laboulaye's Fairy Book At these words out came her mother Teresa Panza with a distaff in her hand—for she was spinning flax. Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote Gathered up into a bunch and tied, not folded, it in shape resembled a charged distaff of unusual size. The Valley of the Kings What followed the distaff and spindle in the development of spinning? Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades This Augustine was a peasant woman, and when a little girl she had tended the sheep in the mountains of Auvergne, wearing the picturesque peasant-costume and carrying her distaff with her. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated On the distaff side, the thing is too obvious to need exposition. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind We find Aunt Polly too, and she lays down her distaff, welcomes us in, tells us a story of the backwoods, and gives us a taste of her new metheglin. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm On the border of a fine manuscript of the time of Edward IV. there is the figure of a woman employed with her distaff, her head and neck enveloped in a coverchief. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 The improvement on the distaff and spindle was the spinning wheel. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades "Yes, for those pharaohs forgot the sword for the distaff," retorted Ramses. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Whereso they preach, ’tis said, the very women will leave their distaffs, and begin to talk of sacred matter—most unbecoming and scandalous it is! The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century It was during the reign of Henry VII that spindles and distaffs first appeared in England. Carl and the Cotton Gin Spindle and distaff are used in spinning the wool into yarn, which is then knit or woven into cloth on a hand loom. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Yarn for the making of cloth was spun in the earliest times by the use of the distaff and spindle. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades He never went out of his palace, but spent all his time among a company of women, dressed and painted like them, and employed like them at the distaff. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry The old lady rose hastily, laid down her distaff, and opening the door, courtesied low to the little girl of ten years old who stood outside. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time This was said after supper, as Jack was seated at a little distance from the rest of the party, while the fair Elizabeth was nimbly plying her distaff. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea Near her was Mistress Katherine, scraping almonds into a bowl; while Margery, occupied with her distaff, sat at a little distance. Mistress Margery The distaff was a larger, stouter stick, around one end of which the material to be spun was wound in a loose ball. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades I blush that we should owe our lives to such A king of distaffs! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry Perhaps it was the suddenness of the next question which made the old lady drop her distaff. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time They can keep tally on a stick or a distaff. The Eyes of Asia Margery reseated herself, and took up her distaff, but the thread was very uneven, and she broke it twice, while her father turned over the leaves of the book, and praised her writing and illuminations. Mistress Margery The spinner fixed the end of the distaff under her left arm so that the coil of material was in a convenient position for drawing out to form the yarn. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Oh! if it must be so, and these rash slaves Will not be ruled with less, I'll use the sword Till they shall wish it turned into a distaff. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry The distaff had to be recovered before the question could be considered. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time When I pulled it out and wound it round the distaff, it looked like ravelled silk, it was so smooth and fine. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Margery stole furtive looks at her father over her distaff, and soon observed an ominous look of displeasure creeping over his face. Mistress Margery It thus appears that the primitive spinners with distaff and spindle had nothing to learn in point of fineness from even the most advanced methods of spinning by machinery. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Look, that was Abdul's wife, the one with the distaff; the other two were two women I saw sitting under a palm-tree one evening. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient The old lady took her distaff, now ready, and sat down, smiling at the impatience of the capricious child. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time I don’t want Hercules, or any sort of man, to spin at my distaff, I can tell you. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Simply replying, however, “I will seek it, father,” she rose and laid her distaff down. Mistress Margery It was market day; the women were sitting, with distaff and spindle, on each side of the entrance to the Halle. Brittany & Its Byways On the flat white roof of the house, another woman had just laid aside her distaff in a hurry. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient “There is meetness in all things,” said the old lady, picking up her distaff. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time He was evidently arrested in the act of destruction, for one hand grasped the distaff, the other clinched something which he sought to conceal in the folds of his cloak. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel The thread fell from Margery’s hand, and so did the distaff, which rolled over the floor with a clatter. Mistress Margery Some of them have short bead-chains with a ring, attached to the left shoulder, to stick their distaffs in when not at work. Brittany & Its Byways At first Modest and thriftily, though poor, she liv’d, With her own hands a homely livelihood Scarce earning from the distaff and the loom. The Comedies of Terence Opposite to her, occupied with another distaff, is a tall, fair, queenly girl, who can surely be no daughter of the dame. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Such must have been the instrument that Hercules used, when he bowed his giant strength to the distaff, to gratify a beautiful woman’s whim.” Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Indeed, she had done little for many years except twirl the distaff in her corner by the fire. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North And did they not all envy you, and wonder when their distaffs were to whirl to the tread of their own ready feet? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 The world thundered on around him; the web of Life unrolled endlessly from the distaff of the Second Fate; and he slept on, unheeding. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain “Tarry yet a moment, Lord de Audley,” said Bertram, smiling again; for the girl’s colour came and went, the distaff trembled in her hand, and her eyes sought his with a look of troubled entreaty. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Don’t tease—I must smooth the flax on the distaff and wet the thread on the spindle first. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel She continued to twirl her distaff, seemingly unconscious of his presence, and also, after her own fashion, to "spae" the fortune of young Harry Bertram, just as Mannering had so lately been doing himself. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Eve, with a distaff, suckles Cain in the background. The Dance of Death Here and there a little private flock was being tended by a girl, one spinning with a distaff, another seated on a wall and intently making lace. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) In the chimney-corner, distaff in hand, sits the dame,—a small, slight woman, with gentle dark eyes, and a meek, loving expression, which will make her face lovely to the close of life. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Tell me now how you can aid me; you, poor and lonely, earning only a scanty pittance by the flax on your distaff, and as ignorant of the world as simple-hearted Helen herself?” Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel The other end of the distaff was held in the hand, under the arm or thrust in the girdle of the spinner. Textiles and Clothing She immediately laid down her distaff, and desired him in Arabic to come in, setting before him a dish of kous-kous. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley On either side of the room were several damsels with spinning-wheels and distaffs by their sides, or else actively plying their needles. The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham Again, that woman always had the distaff in her hand from morning till night, and if the house-keeper was indignant, the spinster could have wept as at a profanation. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) How grandly it moves, and all the time the flax on the distaff is smoking. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel The seventh day came, none following might'st thou see, And the Fate's distaff empty stood to thee: Yet words in thy benumbèd palate rung; "Farewell, Corinna," cried thy dying tongue. The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) But as Caspar had said, Ossaroo was an adept with the distaff; and several large skeins of the finest twist were soon turned off from his nimble fingers. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" Dilke explains this as "the distaff from whence she draws the thread of life," but though this is evidently the meaning required, it is difficult to extract it from this obscure phrase. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois So I will lay my hand to the distaff, as the virtuous woman did of old—Yesterday was very bad weather, neither aunt, nor niece at publick worship. Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 I can see all the ribs of my distaff.” Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel To them was intrusted the spinning and management of the thread of life; Clotho held the distaff, Lachĕsis turned the wheel, and Atrŏpos cut the thread. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Queen Halcyone dropped her distaff and looked in fear at the king. Stories of Birds Hark! at her flaxen distaff cheerily singeth the matron, Hymns, that perchance, were mingled with her own cradle melodies. Man of Uz, and Other Poems Her mind seemed to grow as strangely calm as if busied in selecting some shade of wool for her distaff. The Lion's Brood Below this is written the inscription— “She laid her hands to the spindle, and her hands held the distaff.” Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Thus are they represented on a medal, each with a distaff in her hand. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) The distaff of the bride is carried by an old woman throughout the ceremonies. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Give me the distaff and the fatal shears. The Infernal Marriage The major's sister had at the same time a distaff which often spun yarn for her without any one handling it. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales He placed the money in its hollow receptacles, united the brazen rings, and smoothed the tangled flax that twined the distaff. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel It is the time of spinning on the distaff. Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) The Virgin sits spinning with a distaff and spindle beside the Holy Child's cradle, by which beautiful angels worship. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art One held a distaff, from which the second spun; and the third wielded an enormous pair of adamantine shears, with which she perpetually severed the labours of her sisters. The Infernal Marriage At night she left the distaff empty, and in the morning it was full. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Mr Palliser had relinquished his sword of state for the distaff which he had assumed, and could take no glory in the change. Can You Forgive Her? Learning scraps of old ballads from the cottage matrons, as they sung them at their distaffs, he early began to essay imitations of these olden ditties. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The three sisters, the dread Moiræ, in their darksome cavern, spinning the golden thread of destiny, reel from their distaff no bright soft film of wedded happiness. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy He was followed by two shepherdesses in white with distaffs and tapers. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Maid-servants followed with a distaff and wool, intimating that she was to spin as matrons formerly did. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Plantagenet winced a little under this, as the hero of old must have winced when he was found with the distaff. Can You Forgive Her? Here one comes upon the rooms marked with the so-called "distaff" pattern, supposed to indicate that they were the women's quarters. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two She moves in august majesty, a sore-tried queen, and leaps in merry laughter as a care-free slave; pipes, sings and plies the distaff. Woman as Decoration On this evening, too, girls are afraid to spin lest in the morning they should find their distaffs twisted, the threads broken, and the yarn in confusion. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan None of the young women remain idle; for while the joke and merry laugh go round, one knits, a second sews, a third spins, and a fourth handles a distaff. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales The white-haired old women, plying their spindle or distaff, or meditating in grim solitude, sit with the sinister set features of Fates by their doorways. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series She is a very good sort of woman, who told us tales all night long while she worked her distaff at my bedside. The Poor Plutocrats The Indefatigable Woman carried a small distaff in the bows, and her crew wore blue jerseys and yellow handkerchiefs. News from the Duchy The belief about the Devil cutting flax left on the distaff links the English superstitions to the mysterious Frau with various names, who in Germany is supposed to go her rounds during the Twelve Nights. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan The infant Achilles breaks the thin disguise of his gown and sleeves by dropping the distaff, and grasping the sword. Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls In former times young women met with their distaffs during the winter evenings, to sing, and spin, and be merry; these were called “rockings.” The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham His speech, his manner, his dress, his ideas along social and political and industrial lines have been fashioned upon the distaff of time. Catholic Problems in Western Canada They did not even have spinning wheels in those days, so a spinner took a handful of wool on the end of a stick called a distaff, which she held in her left hand. Hebrew Life and Times They sent them distaffs, as a token of their cowardice! History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution A spinning wheel is very convenient it must be allowed, but the distaff and spindle are much more picturesque. The Diary of an Ennuyée Rocking is a term derived from primitive times, when our country-women employed their spare hours in spinning on the roke or distaff. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Hercules.—Wits as well as heroes can take up the distaff. Dialogues of the Dead As the thread lengthened she wound it around the spindle, until the wool on the distaff was all gone and she had a great ball of yarn. Hebrew Life and Times There you see him, in his old-fashioned dining-room, with his old-fashioned wife holding her old-fashioned distaff, while he is surrounded by his old-fashioned arms, pets, and furniture. Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy The old woman, who had been plying distaff and spindle the while, let out a yell of fury and half disappeared beneath the platform. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia The King, to avoid the misfortune foretold by the old fairy, issued orders forbidding any one, on pain of death, to spin with a distaff and spindle, or to have a spindle in his house. The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 So, having no supper, she sate her down on the doorstep, and, bringing out her distaff, began to spin. English Fairy Tales In its right hand it held a spear, and in the left, a distaff and spindle. The Story of Troy I saw him of the Nerlo and him of the Vecchio satisfied with unlined skin and their ladies with the spindle and the distaff. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 We all roared with laughter, while beneath us the cats spat and the old woman cursed, beating about with the handle of her distaff till she had rescued her dinner. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia Abishai returned it in such a manner that she never afterwards required a distaff. Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers And away ran the old wife after it as fast as she could run, with her spindle in one hand and her distaff in the other. English Fairy Tales She turned round on the stairs and went back with her hand-maids to the chamber where her loom and her distaff were. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy But possibly she thought that her aunt's question must not be too literally answered, for she hastily skipped across the panelled chamber, seized her distaff, and answered meekly; "I am about to spin, aunt." The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot The next night a Big Hag came ashore, and the tooth in the front of her mouth would make a distaff. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria The old lady threw her distaff at the Israelite, and, missing him, desired him to bring it back to her. Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers Old and young women, distaff or pan or pot or pitcher in hand, turned head, gazed, spoke to themselves or to one another. Foes And Helen sat in her high chair and took the distaff in her hands and worked the yarn. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy Woman he would have found in beautiful shades of blue, in such light garments “woven wind” as Theocritus speaks of when he presents the wife of his doctor with a new ivory distaff. Lost Leaders Go then, and occupy content at home The woman's province; ply the distaff, spin And weave, and task thy maidens. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper It is true, this lady has a golden quiver as well as a golden distaff; but her arrows are all for those who cannot solve her riddle. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Mother Binning drew a thread from her distaff. Foes Then the lady Helen left the distaff down and said, 'Menelaus, I am minded to tell you who one of these strangers is. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy Lay by the lion's hide, vain conqueror, And take the distaff; for thy soul's my slave. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 The mother was at her distaff, and so were the other two females—to wit, her grandmother and Grace's sister. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One The young wife, carrying a distaff and spindle filled with wool, was conducted to her house, a cake, baked by the vestal virgins, being carried before her. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century Mother Binning had been working in the garden, but when she saw the figures on the path below she took her distaff and sat on the bench in the sun. Foes And Helen sat in her chair and took the distaff in her hands and worked on the violet-coloured wool that was in her basket. The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy I would that I were done for ever with the spindle and the distaff.' The Little Colonel's House Party Clotho held the golden distaff in her hand, and twirled and twisted the delicate thread. Hero Tales Go home and busy thyself with loom and distaff and see to the work of thy maidens. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories There are English names among us, of course, such as Gurd, which is Gurth as pronounced by a Norman; but it is understood that we are neolithic chiefly on the distaff side. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary The assailants, in short, were completely repulsed; nor was the distaff, once thrown aside, resumed, till the ladies of Beauvais had forced the Duke of Burgundy to retire in shame from their walls. The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection With one finger of her right hand she detaches the yarn from the distaff that lies inert in the little iron rut before her. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls She held in her hand a distaff, wound with black and white woollen yarn, with which were sparingly intermixed strands of silk and gold. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Entering the inner room, they found the large distaff flung carelessly upon a bench. Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian She is seen washing wool in a bowl, carding it, stripping the flax, beating it, spinning it on a distaff, and winding it into hanks. The Cathedral Jean had always told her that this came from the distaff side of the family. Kit of Greenacre Farm She layeth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle. Sex and Society From the wool of the Chilihueques they manufactured cloth for their apparel, using the spindle and distaff for spinning this wool into yarn, and two different kinds of looms for weaving the yarn into cloth. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time That the distaff of the Fates, and the ruthless sceptre of the Erinnys, entered in full force into all the religions of the Greeks and Romans, scarcely needs to be affirmed. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Go thou to thy house, to the distaff and the loom, and make thy maidens ply their labors. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) Rock, sb. a loom, spinning wheel, spinning distaff. Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch She took up the distaff that she had dropped, and fell to work again. Audrey They had found only Katla, they said, spinning flax from a large distaff. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft In the autumn evenings, women, young girls, &c., assemble at different houses, with their distaff or bundle of flax, which they place before the hearth. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Then seek your chamber and attend to matters of your own,—the loom, the distaff,—and bid the women ply their tasks. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) For me, old women spinning in old-world fashion, with distaff and spindle, flax as white as their own hair, came to roadside doors, or moved back and forth under orchard trees. Italian Journeys What possible concord could there be between scholars and domestics, between authors and cradles, between books or tablets and distaffs, between the stylus or the pen and the spindle? Historia Calamitatum They returned, seized the distaff, and burnt it. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft The old man looked after the cows, and the old wife span on the distaff. More English Fairy Tales Old Philemon toiled diligently in his garden, while Baucis was always busy with her distaff, or making a little butter and cheese with their cow’s milk, or doing one thing and another about the cottage. The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) She layeth her hands to the distaff And her hands hold the spindle. The Nervous Housewife The ladies of rank still spin flax from a distaff, to show their industry. The World's Fair We saw no furniture in their huts except a few bowls and calabashes, a rude distaff for spinning cotton, and the usual bed-hurdle covered with mats. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 When the other one sees this, it runs off as fast as it could, and the old wife after it, with the spindle in the one hand, and the distaff in the other. More English Fairy Tales Some were grinding the yellow grain in hand-mills, others were walking to and fro at the loom, and others sat plying distaff and spindle, nodding their heads like poplars waving in the wind. Stories from the Odyssey "Lo, we starve," they cried, "our distaffs are snapped; no more may we weave and spin!" Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II When the clock struck eleven—but it was properly twelve—the three damsels arose, put up their distaffs and things, and departed. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 The custom of Florentine mothers has been described by the poet, Dante, when he says:— Another, drawing tresses from her distaff. A Study of Fairy Tales A woman had one fair daughter, who loved play better than work, wandering in the meadows and lanes better than the spinning-wheel and distaff. More English Fairy Tales One of them belonged to Jameel Bey, but, judging from the children tending babies while squatting in the entrance portico, was generally given over to the distaff side and its friends. War in the Garden of Eden When he stops he knits or he spins with the distaff thrust in his girdle. Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Moreover, their distaffs and spindles had something peculiar, and no spinster might so finely and nimbly spin the thread. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Let her learn her place by a sharp lesson here; so may she understand that she had best return to her distaff and spindle and leave the crowning of Kings to other hands!' A Heroine of France "I wet my fingers with my lips, as I draw the thread from the distaff." More English Fairy Tales And Hercules should be spinning at your feet—a man in a black coat and a high collar, with a distaff! Don Orsino He hardly heard the words he uttered, so loud was the clatter of his thoughts, and he seemed to see the trail of his destiny unwinding itself from the distaff in the hands of Fate. Evelyn Innes Achilles had long plied the distaff as a princess, yet, at first sight of a sword, he seized it. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II So at last:—"Lo, now," quoth the lady, "I can no more abide thy surly humour: God forgive thee: I leave thee my distaff here, which be careful to bestow in a safe place." The Decameron, Volume II Then looking down the hole saw her friend, the old dame, walking backwards and forwards in a deep cavern among a group of spinsters all seated on colludie stones, and busy with distaff and spindle. More English Fairy Tales As they worked in the flickering light, they stretched their distaffs at arm’s length into the air like witches waving their wands; and with that the elfland picture was complete. Philippine Folk Tales As she sat by the open door, diligently trotting her foot, and softly pulling the last flax from her distaff, her glance went hastily and often towards the setting sun. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 "Oh, Mrs. Prockter, do come with me to the end of the corridor, and look at three old distaffs that I've found in a cupboard!" Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) From the distaff of Eternity, you take the thread of your life, but you're sitting in the night, and God meant you to be a spinner in the sun. A Spinner in the Sun In the wardrobe there were at least thirty dresses, and nearby were the high beds, the cradle, the distaff with its beautiful spindles, and everywhere children's clothes were hanging, presents from the bride's former playmates. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes "Ply the distaff, my maids—ply the distaff—before It is spun, he may happen to stand at the door." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 The natives manufacture from it a narrow cloth, which is made from thread, spun in a manner similar to the distaff. Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa "Will you open, you devil's distaff?" impatiently exclaimed the voice, "or I will not leave you a plank of this door for your coffin." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 Adamo added many more grave remarks between the puffs of his pipe, turning to Pipa, who sat beside him, distaff in hand, the silver pins, stuck into her glossy plaits, glistening in the sun. The Italians Miss SEWARD:—"That would be Hercules with the distaff indeed!" Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine In the patriot's sight The battle of freedom he hastens to fight; "Ply the distaff, my maids—ply the distaff—before It is spun, he may happen to stand at the door." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 "Collaterals on the distaff side," Mr. Fowler put in hastily. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 I should be indeed unwilling to find that, for the sake of corresponding with the Idler, the smith's iron had cooled on the anvil, or the spinster's distaff stood unemployed. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler Mary sits on one side spinning with her distaff, and watching her Infant slumbering in its cradle. Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts |
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