woollen

• Her shipping and shipbuilding interests, her cotton, woollen, worsted, and textile fabrics, her machinery, engines, and agricultural implements, boots and shoes, hats and caps, her cabinet furniture, musical instruments, paper, clothing, fisheries, soap, candles, and chandlery, in which she has excelled since the days of Franklin, and, in fact, all her industrial pursuits, will be greatly benefited. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• The latter may be made of woollen, covered with old silk, and hung near the fire Coal-stoves should be carefully put up, as cracks, in the pipe, especially in sleeping rooms, are dangerous On Lights. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
• All traces of soap must be carefully removed if the fabric is to be dyed The woollen dyer uses soap on the dyed pieces to assist the milling, and finds that a good soap, made from either olive oil, bleached palm oil, or tallow, is preferable, and, although it is generally specified to be free from alkali, a little alkalinity is not of consequence, for the woollen goods are, as a rule, acid after dyeing, and this alkalinity would be instantly neutralised 2. —  The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
• It was supposed that he had escaped to the old woollen-mill on Black Point As in all other cases where a mob pursues a fleeing criminal, the search was wild and disorderly, so that if the Malay had left any trail beyond the ruins it would have been obliterated by trampling feet. —  The Ape, the Idiot ; Other People
• He wondered what could be afoot While he was thus engaged he observed a small, dark, wiry man emerging upon the bluff from the direction of the woollen-mill at its eastern base. —  The Ape, the Idiot ; Other People

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