"Counterchange" Quotes from Famous Books
... be planned on the counterchange principle. This is a system of mass designing that involves the problem of making a pattern out of one shape, continually repeated, and fitting into itself in such a way as to leave no interstices. The simplest ... — Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving • Grace Christie
... by-dependencies, From chance to chance; but nor the time nor place Will serve our long inter'gatories. See, Posthumus anchors upon Imogen, And she, like harmless lightning, throws her eye On him, her brothers, me, her master, hitting Each object with a joy; the counterchange Is severally in all. Let's quit this ground, And smoke the ... — Cymbeline • William Shakespeare [Tudor edition]
... and heard during my stay among you has forced on me the belief that this slow change from habitual inertness to persistent activity has reached an extreme from which there must begin a counterchange—a reaction. Everywhere I have been struck with the number of faces which told in strong lines of the burdens that had to be borne. I have been struck, too, with the large proportion of gray-haired men; and inquiries have brought out the fact, that with you the hair commonly ... — The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various
... And all the other by-dependencies, From chance to chance; but nor the time nor place Will serve our long inter'gatories. See, Posthumus anchors upon Imogen, And she, like harmless lightning, throws her eye On him, her brothers, me, her master, hitting Each object with a joy; the counterchange Is severally in all. Let's quit this ground, And smoke ... — Cymbeline • William Shakespeare [Tudor edition]
... Witch-elms that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright; And thou, with all thy breadth and height ... — International Weekly Miscellany, Vol. 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 • Various |