Example Sentences

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Good sley-makers could always command high prices for their sleys.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse

There's a little ould fellow sittin' on the top of the sleys, an' all to be rocked while I'm weavin'.

From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

Wheels, skarnes, sleys, warping-bars, clock-reels, swifts, quilling-wheels, vast bales of yarns and thread—for he no longer spins his thread and yarn.

From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse