woolpack

Example Sentences

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The men with the woolpacks kept together, edging through the narrow streets that sloped downward to the river where the tall ships were anchored.

From In the Days of the Guild by Lamprey, Louise

I saw 70 woolpacks from Germany; hides, hemp and tallow from Russia; corn from Dantzic, and other Baltic ports; and strange thin bars of iron from Sweden.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Neptuneless, the ship furrowed a sea almost silent, and evening came on tranquilly among woolpacks of warm-kindled colouring.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

Bishops and abbots have a pastoral staff; priests, a chalice, or a book; wool merchants have woolpacks beneath their feet, and other tradesmen have similar devices denoting their special calling.

From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

A local superstition says the tower was builded on woolpacks.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum by White, Gleeson