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"Knitter" Quotes from Famous Books

... getting settled, and studying, and learning to knit, and—oh, I'm the most wretched knitter, Clay! I just stick at it doggedly. I say to myself that hands that can play golf, and use a pen, and shoot, and drive a car, have got to learn to ...

— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... The knitter rose, bowed respectfully, and said: "I hope, sir, that you are pleased with my son, and that ...

— The Count's Millions - Volume 1 (of 2) • Emile Gaboriau

... her where everything is—she'll keep this house better blind than you did with your both eyes open. I've got a aunt been blind twenty year, and she cooks and sweeps and sews and knits as good as anybody. She'll do the same way. She's a good knitter, I know. The ...

— The Sagebrusher - A Story of the West • Emerson Hough

... with themselves in interests and affections; and who had the further perfection of never wanting any society but the children's; shrinking from English gossips, and never showing a weakness, save for Irish tramps. Moreover, she was a prodigious knitter; and it was her boast that not one of the six young gentlemen had yet worn stocking or sock, but what came from her needles, and had been re-footed by her to ...

— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge

... favors elongation and contraction without marring in the least the general structure of the goods. Builders of weavers' looms have at times endeavored to secure this elastic effect by certain manipulations of the mechanism of the loom, but as yet nothing approaching the product of the knitter has been made. The elastic feature of a knitted texture renders it peculiarly adapted for all classes and kinds of undergarments, for it not only fits the body snugly, but expands more readily than any other fabric of ...

— Textiles • William H. Dooley

Words linked to "Knitter" : knit, needleworker