10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAKE SILK»
Discover the use of
take silk in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
take silk and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Silk 'Paper' Creations for the Fibre Artist
Take silk to a completely new dimension. Since the publication of Take Silk, Judith Pinnell's first book, new approaches and new materials have become available as mediums for fiber art.
2
Report from Select Committee on the
Silk Trade
Why should you who work so well, be obliged to take silk you do not want? — I
am not obliged, but I do work it occasionally, expecting to make a profit. 6522.
Why do you not always take that at 30 deniers ; is not that always to be had ?
Laurie, who retired from the Victorian Bar in 1982 and died seven years later,
decided in the early 1960s, while still in the Party, that he wanted to take silk. As
Laurie explained to his biographer Peter Cook: People began saying to me, other
...
4
The Female Instructor; Or, Young Woman's Companion: Being a ...
... boil them together a quarter of an hour, stirring them well; then take the kettle
ofl' the fire, and put the silk immediately in, covering the kettle very close, that the
steam may not fly aWay; thus let it stand three hours, and then take silk and rinse
...
5
Les Bases Du Droit Anglais: Textes, Vocabulaire Et Exercices
All barristers, regardless of age and seniority, are called junior counsel unless
they have taken silk. ln order to take silk barristers have to have practised for at
least ten years - they can then apply to the Lord Chancellor to be appointed
Queen's ...
Christian Bouscaren, Rosalind Greenstein, Alexandre Cordahi, 1993
6
A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
Thomas F. Bergin & Paul G. Haskell, Preface to Estates in Land and Future
Interests 230 (2d ed. 1984). See take (B). take silk is a BrE phrase meaning "to
become a Queen's Counsel [Q.C.] or King's Counsel [K.C.]." See silk. take the
Fifth ...
I take silk as an instance, since the same reasoning will apply to all other
manufactures. Let this demand be taken at 100,000 pieces, •and let it be
assumed, that the fabrication of this quantity of silk gives employment to 10,000
manufacturers.
I take silk as an instance, since the same reasoning will apply to all other
manufactures. Let this demand be taken at 100,000 pieces, and let it be assumed
, that the fabrication of this quantity of silk gives employment to 10,000
manufacturers.
9
Observations on the Poetical Character of Pope: Further ...
This effect would be brought about in the following manner :--T he supply of silk
at present manufactured in England, is equal to the demand for silk in the home
market. . I take silk as an instance, since the same reasoning will apply to' all
other ...
William Lisle Bowles, 1821
10
The gentleman's magazine
... l$c. to Russian sub- titles of which we now send vtAoFrance, jests, traders to
Persia ; and the sale of Germany and Ho/land. these commodities will be
encreased, if The Brutia silk, recommended by the they are allowed to take silk in
return, ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAKE SILK»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
take silk is used in the context of the following news items.
Silk, BBC One: a lawyer's verdict
The central conceit is that the two main characters are applying to become Queen's Counsel, or to “take silk” – a term deriving from the silk gowns they wear if ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 11»
