homespun

On her deck stood Kenneth and Ursula MacNair, and in her hand, as a most precious treasure, the bride carried a ball of gray homespun yarn."

I have noted the fact, but without satisfaction, I need not add, that several of the boys who began their careers with "store hats" and who were my schoolmates and used to join in the sport that was made of me because I had only a "homespun" cap, have ended their careers in the penitentiary, while others are not able now to buy any kind of hat.

1215 had been drawn aside, and that we, English yeomen's sons in homespun cloth, with dirk at belt, were waiting there to witness the writing of that stupendous page of history, the meaning whereof was to be translated to the common people some four hundred and odd years later by one Oliver Cromwell, who had deeply studied it.

At the head of the column there rode a score or more of grave ironfaced men, clad in sombre homespun garments and armed with rifles.

It was toward evening that Ichabod arrived at the castle of the Heer Van Tassel, which he found thronged with the pride and flower of the adjacent country Old farmers, a spare leathern- faced race, in homespun coats and breeches, blue stockings, huge shoes, and magnificent pewter buckles.

He moved among the grand people in their silks and velvets clad in homespun clothes "like a farmer dressed in his best to dine with the laird"* as easily as he had moved among his humble friends.

For centuries, in their quiet, dogged, homespun way, they have been subduing the earth in most English counties, and leaving their mark in American forests and Australian uplands.

Reading the contributions of the women that comprise "Homespun: Amish and Mennonite Women in Their Own Words" is the next best thing to visiting with a group of Amish or Mennonite women over a cup of coffee.

The un uassuming Mary Jane has been great to work with, teaching her homespun expressions and sharing humorous stories while she went form paper charts to computers.

If this isn't homespun enough, all the lampshades and cushions are handmade in Wales.

Choose natural fabrics, such as wood, wool, cotton and cane - it helps with the homespun feel of this room.

Jones) has joined forces with homespun guitarists Brian Martin and Dan Hunt, drummer Dave Hartwell and bassist Gail Hunt to form this exhilarating '60s and '70s rock revue show.

All these handicrafts might happen one day when I've got the time and energy but, in the meantime, I take the short cut by getting my cottage homespun feel straight off the high street...