gather wool

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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

Iccius, like many another Raleigh, went out to gather wool, and came back shorn.

From Horace by Martin, Theodore

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

Peggi 'Bullet' and I have been like sisters since the time when we were girls, and harvested together, and went together to gather wool on the sheep mountains.

From By Berwen Banks by Raine, Allen