The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 256
he left, beating the time of hermusic; the concentrated hum of the spinning-wheel asit twisted or spun, interspersed with the foot-falls of thespinner, has something than which, no music of Meyer-beer, or Beethoven will awake more tender recollections,or arouse more acutely the flagging… … THE OLD FAMILY SPINNING-WHEEL. 253 The old family spinning-wlieel was a poem of thehousehold. It sang, in the winter evenings, of the future;of weddings to come as it spun the garments to be worn;of cloths that were to be worn by the boy that wasabout to venture out into the broad world; of…
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