..."those ancient implements of housewifery, now almost banished from the land, the distaff and spindle": Twist ye, twine ye! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe. (HI: 41-2) Meg's distaff is triply symbolic of legitimate authority and community. Its twining threads...

...stiffness fore and aft. Chapter 12 The mysteries of shear and torsion - or Polaris and the bias-cut nightie Twist ye, twine ye! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe t Hope and fear, and peace and strife, In the thread of human life. Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering...

...something fine, and have — have it end . . ." He chanted softly: "Twist ye, twine ye! Even so, Mingled shades of joy and woe, Hope and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of human life." "That's b-beautiful, but what does it mean? That the good and bad are mixed together so we can't pull...

...fleet as hawk ; 3o Think of this, and rise with day, Gentle lords and ladies gay. THE SPINDLE SONG Twist ye, twine ye ! even so Mingle shades of joy...of human life. While the mystic twist is spinning, 5 And the infant's life beginning, Dimly seen through twilight bending, Lo, what varied shapes attending...

...of life, and another twisted its bright and dark lines together, and another severed it at will. " Twist ye, twine ye ! even so, Mingle shades of joy...and peace, and strife, In the thread of human life." — SCOTT. Before the threshold of hell they passed through a group of beings who are enumerated as...

...a great deal to those who know what an army is. There are weeks, there may be months, of " Mingled shades of joy and woe, Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of every life." If sickness visits the troops, as it is so apt to. do in quarters, it is almost impossible...

...the Bard compare the paraphrase of the gipsy's song in Guy Mannering [c. IV.] : 'Twist ye, twine ye I even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope and fear, and pea'-e and strife In the thread of human life. Now they wax and now they dwindle Whirling with the...