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Always taking a moderate-to-liberal position, Javits has knit together a far-flung constituency of largely Jewish voters in New York City and upstate conservatives who have found him safe on economic issues.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the winter, he wears a sweater one of us has knit, and in the summer, a loose undyed linen shirt.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

The young men of today are the heirs of all the unifying influences by which the genius of man has knit this great people into one splendid family.

From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress

That lovely girl gave me a necktie and a pair of gloves that she has knit with her own hands.

From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by Adams, John Wolcott

Invidious grave!—how dost thou rend in sunder Whom love has knit, and sympathy made one!

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George