gather wool
Example Sentences
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The physicality of Cromwell’s world is an expression of his character: he’s not a dreamer, he can’t afford to gather wool or traffick in abstractions.
From Time • May 16, 2012
Although there are minds that warp and others that gather wool, Lord Sherrington's definition of the brain as an "enchanted loom" is more poetic than precise.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having gone out to gather wool he had come back shorn, to go out a second time and to come back shorn to a still more ludicrous degree.
From The Hunters of the Ozark by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
Iccius, like many another Raleigh, went out to gather wool, and came back shorn.
From Horace by Martin, Theodore
His thoughts had wandered afar on frequent journeys, and when they came back to take up the dull occupation they had abandoned temporarily, they were broader than when they went out to gather wool.
From Quill's Window by McCutcheon, George Barr
