stocking-machine

Now stockings are good and comfortable things, and the children will undoubtedly be much the better for them; but surely it would be short-sighted, to say the least of it, to depreciate this toiling mother as a mere stocking-machine — a mere provider of physical comforts?

Essays 2007

Now stockings are good and comfortable things, and the children will undoubtedly be much the better for them; but surely it would be short-sighted, to say the least of it, to depreciate this toiling mother as a mere stocking-machine — a mere provider of physical comforts?

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

Now stockings are good and comfortable things, and the children will undoubtedly be much the better for them; but surely it would be short-sighted, to say the least of it, to depreciate this toiling mother as a mere stocking-machine -- a mere provider of physical comforts?

Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909

Now stockings are good and comfortable things, and the children will undoubtedly be much the better for them; but surely it would be short-sighted, to say the least of it, to depreciate this toiling mother as a mere stocking-machine -- a mere provider of physical comforts?

Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

Now stockings are good and comfortable things, and the children will undoubtedly be much the better for them; but surely it would be short-sighted, to say the least of it, to depreciate this toiling mother as a mere stocking-machine -- a mere provider of physical comforts?

Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

Now stockings are good and comfortable things, and the children will undoubtedly be much the better for them; but surely it would be short-sighted, to say the least of it, to depreciate this toiling mother as a mere stocking-machine -- a mere provider of physical comforts?

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

Now stockings are good and comfortable things, and the children will undoubtedly be much the better for them; but surely it would be short-sighted, to say the least of it, to depreciate this toiling mother as a mere stocking-machine -- a mere provider of physical comforts?

On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

These hands, hooked or contracted from the habit of knitting, might be called a stocking-machine incessantly at work; the phenomenon would have been had they stopped.

Beatrix 1839

These hands, hooked or contracted from the habit of knitting, might be called a stocking-machine incessantly at work; the phenomenon would have been had they stopped.

Beatrix Honor�� de Balzac 1824