wool-sorter

Stewart Morrison when he was in the mill was in it from top to bottom, from carder to spinner and weaver, from wool-sorter to cloth-hall inspector, to make sure that the manufacturing principles for which All-Wool Morrison stood were carried out to the last detail.

All-Wool Morrison Holman Day 1900

The relation of our sense-organs to the several degrees of matter, to solids, fluids, gases, atmospheric and etheric motions, vary in different individuals to such a wide extent that the average wool-sorter leaves many an artist behind in his perception of colour-shades.

How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896

He went to a young fellow, a wool-sorter in the mills, who was a corporal in the militia, to obtain the necessary information to make his application.

The Flag Homer Greene 1896

The average wool-sorter will outvie an artist in his perception of colour shades.

Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896

Baldy and all of us ---- and especially visitors when they came -- were mighty interested in Bogan; and I reckon we were rather proud of having a blind wool-sorter.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

Sometimes he worked for a while himself as bookkeeper at a shearing-shed, wool-sorter, shearer, even rouseabout; he'd work at anything a bushman could get to do.

Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894

The first half - how an illiterate Yorkshire wool-sorter learnt to read at 15 and rose to be Oxford's first professor of philology - is stirring stuff.

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