"Fashioning" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Turchi, where the finest of such treasures were not secured at a first asking, and in these his mother was a connoisseur; but there were many more anxious visits to Murano, to be assured that no step in the fashioning of his gift ...
— A Golden Book of Venice • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
... forget the third, The Divine Virgin—Womanhood fashioning itself independently after its own ideal. She has driven us, naked and ashamed, into ...
— The Black Cat - A Play in Three Acts • John Todhunter
... land and sea of two boys and a man cast upon an island in the South Seas without food or weapons; their experience in fashioning clothing, tools and weapons, and in overcoming nature and subduing and civilizing savage tribes; covers a wide ...
— Practical Mechanics for Boys • J. S. Zerbe
... he who quenches his thirst from a crystal cup; and the artist who gave the glass its shape, impressed as in a mould of bronze by the simple means of a second's breath and yet more cheaply than the fashioning of the wooden bowl, has done more to ennoble and improve his neighbour than any inventor of a system: in his work he gives him the use and the enjoyment of things for which orators can ...
— The Mind of the Artist - Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art • Various
... return home. Many motives drew her there, but especially her business; day and night her mind was haunted by the garments which, just at this time, before the commencement of the Reichstag, other dressmakers were fashioning for ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
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