You may see a girl with a distaff, drawing out the thread, and winding it again on the spindle ; another walking, and arranging the threads for the web ; another, as it were, throwing the shuttle, and seeming to weave. The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such ... - Side 421 av Sabine Baring-Gould, John Fisher - 1908 Uten tilgangsbegrensning -
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