Quotes About Worsted

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon, and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; and there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the kitten running after its own tail in the middle.

After a Great Victory.-The best thing in a great victory is that it deprives the conqueror of the fear of defeat. Why should I not be worsted for once ? he says to himself, I am now rich enough to stand it.

Perhaps also Roger felt that were he to take up the cudgels for an argument he might be worsted in the combat, as in such combats success is won by practised skill rather than by truth.

In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine...