| 单词 | raveling |
| 例句 | She held the raveling in her palm, touched it with her forefinger, and noted its spiraling. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother turned from a foggy log into a slumbering, middle-aged woman, her mouth slightly open and a snore raveling from her throat. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Whatever his fortune, whatever the cut of his garment, there would always be the hem—the tuck and fold that hid his raveling edges; a someone sweet, industrious and loyal to shore him up. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Penelope sat at home, weaving and raveling. In ‘Siren,’ Artists and Poets Singing From the Rocks 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z When he talks about unpacking those boxes, he wavers between describing it as part of the “unraveling of our lives” and the “raveling our lives.” Perspective | A grieving father retraces his wife’s last route — then goes further 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Previous to the testing, however, the work must be carefully wiped clean with old rag, as new rag or waste is apt to leave ravelings behind. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Tyson and the Eskimo families did their cooking from the first by lamp, native-fashion, the lamps being made from pemmican cans with wicks of canvas ravelings. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z He searched again and came up with a highly respectable blue coat, with a mere raveling on one sleeve. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z Everywhere lay the rotting ends and broken ravelings of the past, but nowhere, not even in the oddest corner, could there be found the thread of a hope for the future. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z No case is to be tried on scraps, and patches, and shreds, and ravelings. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z The object of the overcasting is to prevent raveling while working the buttonhole and the fewer stitches which will accomplish this purpose the better. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z By raveling off about four inches from each leg he got enough cotton thread to patch the other two wicks with. Where the Pavement Ends Rugs may be made of coffee sacking or Turkish gunny-rest sacks, inlaid with rich designs in red yarn, and a handsome fringe can be added by raveling the edges. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories I strove to trace the filmy thread that lies between consciousness and sleep, and I fancied that it was a raveling from a rainbow, with one end in the sunset, the other in the sunrise. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z And I want to tell you this is a case of badges, and patches, and ravelings, and remnants, and rags. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z Trim the edges of the patch smooth and herringbone stitch with ravelings around it. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z Carpet ravelings Carpet ravelings may be obtained from the carpet stores, or pieces of carpet can be raveled by the children. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home With the ravelings of a linen handkerchief, aided by the magic buckle-tongue, I mended my clothing. Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871 Long pointed ravelings on the lower edge of the mantle showed where some of the snow had turned to water, which changed again to ice, when the sun dipped below the horizon. A Waif of the Mountains You've seen them, haven't you?—the kind of packing they put into music boxes, fine toys, and the like, flummoxy twisted paper ravelings that protect the varnish and have no weight to speak of. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas This may be done with thread, ravelings or hair. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z Let them have the pleasure and benefit which come from sorting the ravelings. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home Various lengths of time may elapse from the time the road is first finished until raveling begins, depending upon the character of the stone, the weather and the amount of motor traffic. American Rural Highways If you are not able to match the wool for a darn, it is a good plan to use the ravelings of the stuff itself. How Girls Can Help Their Country It is cheery enough, too, to attract the Pettybaw weans, who steal in on wet days and sit on the floor playing with the thrums, or with bits of colored ravelings. Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland In darning with thread darn on the wrong side, with ravelings or hair on the right. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z Or, the two narrow ends may be run past each other, as in carpet ravelings. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home When this effect begins, the road is said to be raveling. American Rural Highways His shoulder was free, but he could see ravelings of his coat in the other's teeth. A Man to His Mate Surely to goodness you don't mind that little, harmless raveling? The Ranch at the Wolverine Overcasting.—Overcasting is done by taking loose stitches over the raw edge of cloth from right to left to keep it from raveling. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z Woolens, fine worsteds, ravelings, and cottons Such materials as carpet and oriental wools, fine worsteds, carpet ravelings, darning and knitting cotton should, in splicing, be run past each other. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home During the period before raveling starts, it is comparatively easy to restore the road surface at any time by the addition of screenings or clay and sand. American Rural Highways I used to be so busy all the time last spring in London and never had half time enough, and now everything is raveling out instead of knitting up. Betty Leicester A Story For Girls A reach of level prairie bounded only by the edge of the world—misty ravelings of heliotrope and amber, covered only by the arch of heaven—blue, beautiful and pitiless in its far fathomless spaces. Winning the Wilderness To avoid this waste, we must learn to weave whole garments out of the mere ravelings of the fabric of time. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings For silk, silkoline, finer rags, carpet ravelings, double wool, etc., wind the warp strings around two teeth, thus making a warp of three-eighths inches. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home She showed them two morning dresses which had been made in her house from ravelings of old satin chair covers. Stories of New Jersey First the purplish spot was swathed in white; and as the injury was below the raveling edge of the sleeve, the bandage was in plain sight, and carried conviction with it. The Rich Little Poor Boy If the German had waited, he must have seen me raveling it out like a cat tangled in a ball of cotton. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France Miss Eliza took up the Christian Observer once more, and Miss Letitia resumed her rosy crocheting, after raveling out almost a whole row which she had put in as wrong as was possible. The Heart of Arethusa As this peculiar tone of blue could not be obtained in carpet ravelings, an eighth of a yard of terry was raveled for the purpose. Hand-Loom Weaving A Manual for School and Home I gathered a bunch of the grass, and tore my handkerchief with my teeth and mixed some ravelings of that in and tied a nest, with a handle to it. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies Give me a little space and time enough, From ravelings rough I could revive, reweave, A fabric of beauty art might well believe Were past retrieve. Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen Sticking to this nail was a raveling of brown wool. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow An old sheet can be used and the ends of the strips sewed together and then wrapped tight in a roll, with the ravelings from the sides removed. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada She picked a raveling from her sleeve, and stroked her fur, and inspected the tips of her gloves, and untied and retied the strings of her cap—all with an inscrutable face. The Iron Furrow All dusters should be hemmed, otherwise the ravelings are apt to catch and pull down the bric-a-brac. The Complete Home Give me but a raveling fiber to pull, and, by the gods, I know that we shall find Har-hat at the other end of it! The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Had the old days been lived rightly and with reason; had there been no ravelings, no tangles, no misunderstandings, life would have run smoothly enough. The Grey Cloak They found many women using thorns instead of pins and knitting one pair of stockings with the ravelings of another. In the Days of Poor Richard Truth to tell, the Apostles' patch of fancy ended right there—all raveling out into smiles and squirms of delight. The Primrose Ring There were high-born, penitent dames who retired to convents in expiation of sins which are not explained until the general raveling of clews in the final chapter. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Thy perplexity hath not been untangled for thee, nor even a thread pulled which shall start it raveling. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Of course, it is easy enough, if you have a little money in your stocking, to cut any kind of hard knot and go off on a railroad train, leaving the ravelings behind you. Over Paradise Ridge A Romance Then the General retired, went to his house and found his carriage waiting, and, in less than an hour, was absorbed in raveling the snarled affairs connected with his recent disastrous speculation. Sevenoaks A thread of fire ran up like an opening seam, broadened, and threw out pink ravelings. Lazarre The average audience will not follow the speaker who is occupied with raveling ideas from his paper rather than with weaving them into the minds of his hearers. Elements of Debating We must change that couch, though; put it the other way so the ravelings won't show. Behind the line A story of college life and football But lately Sunday is raveling out at the end. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 He noticed that she was sewing with ravelings and he said, 'Lady, next time I come I'll bring you a spool of thread if you don't mind.' Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 To see the seams and ravelings of a diplomatic intrigue! Rezanov Madden instantly caught up the loose ends of his raveling authority. The Cruise of the Dry Dock Most of them are intellectual shreds and patches, mental ravelings, selvage. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest The long, thin white hair, curly at the ends, the aristocratic beak of a nose, the crumpled, wide, raveling shirt front, the string tie, with the bow nearly under one ear, were almost exactly duplicated. The Best American Humorous Short Stories There existed retailers of trimming, fringes, cords, ravelings of silk, cotton, or thread, during the destruction of curtains, etc., rendered unfit for use. Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 Tired and hung over from all their ravelings of the night before, they ignored her. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs There, sir, we are unwinding the ravelings of his past life to an extent. The Voice on the Wire My temper's fairly long-suffering, but 'twas raveling some by this time. Cape Cod Stories The face was left uncovered, except that a small patch of white cloth ravelings, called “fo-ot′,” was laid over the eyes, and a small white cloth was laid over the hair of the head. The Bontoc Igorot The sky was covered with tumbling, flying clouds, which changed shape continually, and ripped into long, fleecy ravelings, that broke loose and pelted on until merged into the next billowy mass. Cy Whittaker's Place You hadn't had any experience in raveling such things out, and naturally it was too many for you. Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion He looked rather to be an old courtier handed down from the reign of Charles, and re-attired in a modern suit of fine, but raveling and seam-worn, broadcloth. Waifs and Strays Part 1 "I found this Grand Army button and this cloth raveling in front of the safe, too, not far from where the key was discovered." Boy Scouts in Mexico; or on Guard with Uncle Sam Men know that we, the full-grown cats, take no interest in the ravelings of wool as mediums of diversion—that we have our hearts set on mice. Phyllis of Philistia He is asleep in that tent, and here are more exhibits in the case—another Grand Army button and another raveling. Boy Scouts in Mexico; or on Guard with Uncle Sam |
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