woolpack

It is as if the final wrought iron bang is the signal for the seams of the woolpack above us to be ripped open, and ablution to fall.

Water Witches Chris Bohjalian 1995

Church of S. Caterina, and carved their arms, a woolpack fastened with ropes, over the door.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

These are the 'woolpack clouds,' which, in summer time, throw deep shadows on the grass.

The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

John Fortey, who rebuilt the nave before he died in 1458; his brass shows him with one foot on a sheep and the other on a woolpack, and the brasses of Thomas Fortey, 'woolman', and of another unknown merchant, with a woolpack, lie near by.

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

Finest of all, perhaps, are the brasses of the wool staplers, with feet resting on woolpack or sheep; but there are many other merchants too.

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

They both have their feet on woolpacks, and on the son's woolpack is his merchant's mark.

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

But all these excitations would, I confess, have spent their artillery in vain against the woolpack of my imagination; and after well considering the scene, I could not help looking at my companion with surprise: to me, the triumph of true genius seemed never more conspicuous, than in the construction of so interesting a poem out of such common-place materials.

The Life of John Clare Martin, Frederick, 1830-1883 1865

But all these excitations would, I confess, have spent their artillery in vain against the woolpack of my imagination; and after well considering the scene, I could not help looking at my companion with surprise: to me, the triumph of true genius seemed never more conspicuous, than in the construction of so interesting a poem out of such common-place materials.

The Life of John Clare Frederick Martin 1856

By these means, the storm rising in Mrs. Atkinson before was in some measure laid, at least suspended from bursting at present; but it fell afterwards upon the poor serjeant's head in a torrent, who had learned perhaps one maxim from his trade, that a cannon-ball always doth mischief in proportion to the resistance it meets with, and that nothing so effectually deadens its force as a woolpack.

Amelia — Volume 3 Henry Fielding 1730

By these means, the storm rising in Mrs. Atkinson before was in some measure laid, at least suspended from bursting at present; but it fell afterwards upon the poor serjeant's head in a torrent, who had learned perhaps one maxim from his trade, that a cannon-ball always doth mischief in proportion to the resistance it meets with, and that nothing so effectually deadens its force as a woolpack.

Amelia — Complete Henry Fielding 1730