 | 1836 - 708 pages
...with it, and ground the grain. "Our first water mills were of the description denominated tub-mills. Instead of bolting cloths, sifters were in general...clothing was all of domestic manufacture. We had no other resources for clothing, and this indeed was a poor one. The crops of flax often failed, and the sheep... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - Unitarianism - 1836 - 740 pages
...grain. • "Our first water mills were of the description denominated tub-mills. Instead of brlting cloths, sifters were in general use. These were made...clothing was all of domestic manufacture. We had no other resources for clothing, and this indeed was a poor one. The crops of flax often failed, and the sheep... | |
 | Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 754 pages
...of them answered the purpose very well. Instead of bolting cloths, sifters were in general use. They were made of deer-skins, in the state of parchment,...failed, and the sheep were destroyed by the wolves. Linscy, which is made of flax and wool — the former the chain, and the latter the filling — was... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 616 pages
...of bolting cloth sifters were in general use. They were made of deerskins, in the state of parchmcn stretched over a hoop, and perforated with a hot wire....domestic manufacture. We had no other resource for cloth ing, and this indeed was a poor one. The crops of flax often failed, and the sheep wer destroyed... | |
 | Samuel Kercheval - Indian captivities - 1850 - 356 pages
...purpose very well. Instead of bolting cloths, sifters were in general use. These were made of deer skins in the state of parchment, stretched over a hoop and perforated with a hot wire. ,often failed, and the sheep were destroyed by the wolves. Linsey, which is made of flax and wool,... | |
 | Biographies of American leaders - 1855 - 624 pages
...sifters were in general use. These were made of deer skins in the state of parchment, stretched over an hoop and perforated with a hot wire. Our clothing...failed, and the sheep were destroyed by the wolves. Lineey, which is made of flax and wool, the former the chain, and the latter the filling, was the warmest... | |
 | Henry Howe - California - 1857 - 504 pages
...sifters were in general use. These were made of deer skins in the state of parchment, stretched over i h'oop, and perforated with a hot wire. Our clothing...the wolves. Linsey, which is made of flax and wool — me former the chain, and the latter the filling — was the warmest and most substantial cloth... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1858 - 766 pages
...purpose very well. Instead of bolting-cloth, sifters were in general use. These were made of deer skins in the state of parchment, stretched over a hoop,...of domestic manufacture. We had no other resource tor clothing, and this, indeed, was a poor one. The crops of flax often failed, and the sheep were... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1858 - 592 pages
...purpose very well. Instead of bolting-cloth, sifters were in general use. These were made of deer skins in the state of parchment, stretched over a hoop,...wire. Our clothing was all of domestic manufacture. We bad no other resource tor clothing, and this, indeed, was a poor one. The crops of flax often failed,... | |
 | Jacob Richards Dodge - West Virginia - 1865 - 290 pages
...of them answered the purpose very well. Instead of bolting cloths, sifters were in general use. They were made of deerskins, in the state of parchment,...is made of flax and wool — the former the chain, the latter the filling — was the warmest and most substantial cloth we could make. Almost every house... | |
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Instead of bolting cloths, sifters were in general use. They were made of deerskins, in the state of parchment, stretched over a hoop and perforated with a hot wire. " Our clothing was all of domestic manufacture. "We had no other resource for clothing,... 
