Worsted
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"So, it is thought that Colonel Tarleton has
worsted
General Sumter?" said Mr. Wharton, affecting to be employed in mending the cup that was broken by the eagerness of his sister-in-law.
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His arms were out, and he held a skein of
worsted
from hand to hand which my mother was busily rolling into a ball.
A very old lady, in a lofty cap and faded silk gown--no less a personage than Mr. Wardle's mother--occupied the post of honour on the right-hand corner of the chimney-piece; and various certificates of her having been brought up in the way she should go when young, and of her not having departed from it when old, ornamented the walls, in the form of samplers of ancient date,
worsted
landscapes of equal antiquity, and crimson silk tea-kettle holders of a more modern period.
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