but there she sits, sewing away as busily as ever, only looking up now and then, to smile, as if she didn't care at all.

She knows French, musick, and drawing, sews neatly, makes shellwork, and can milk cows; in short, she can do every thing.

This paper was also folded and put into an envelope, BUT two or three stitches of red silk were then passed through the flap of the envelope and the enclosed paper, sewing the two securely together; these stitches were made at the point of the flap, and again at each of the four corners.

The English safety skirts, invented three or four years ago, have the seam on the knee-gore open from the knee down to the edge, and the two breadths are caught together with buttons and elastic loops, all sewed on very lightly so as to give way easily.

The, window, draperies, of thin, Oriental fabric, had bands of Chinese embroidered silk cunningly sewed on them.

They sewed up those corduroys, tight as they were.

" The good woman trotted off to the dairy, and Susie sewed demurely, waiting with some trepidation for what was to come next.

A long, narrow pocket might be sewn diagonally across the back of an ordinary Rucksack in which to carry it, but I am afraid it would be uncomfortable.

THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR One fine day a Tailor was sitting on his bench by the window in very high spirits, sewing away most diligently, and presently up the street came a country woman, crying, "Good jams for sale!

She could make two skirts to a dress, one shorter, the other longer; and she could cut out the upper one by any new paper pattern; and she could make shell-trimmings and flutings and box-plaitings and flouncings, and sew them on exquisitely, even now, with her old eyes; but she never had adapted herself to the modern ideas of the corsage.

and the shoulders padded out so that every man is perfectly square; but everything looks extraordinarily well sewn and ironed and everybody is clean shaven; and Octavia says it takes at least two hundred years of gently bred ancestors to look like a gentleman clean shaven in evening dress, so perhaps that is why lots of them have the appearance of actors.

The leather straps should finish on a ring at the top which should be attached to the top of the Rucksack by a leather tab firmly sewn on.

Fortunately, before leaving home Worth had sewed in the lining of his coat a sum of money as a reserve fund.

she whispered to her faithful maid, who was hurriedly sewing a mourning gown of crape for her.

A sewing gathering composed of old ladies in one of the suburbs sewed industriously for weeks on quilts and coverings for the strikers.

The cloaks, with a hood, which are mentioned in this memoir, are composed of several of these skins, ingeniously sewed together, with small and very fine seams.

Wrap a cloth around it, and sew it up loosely with coarse thread, which is easily pulled out.

The hole in his blouse which the bullet had made was nicely sewed up and his wound had healed.

I can't sew very fas' nowadays.

She wore a blue cotton frock, and a brown mushroom hat, with a wreath of wild roses which had somewhat too obviously been sewn on in a hurry and crookedly; and she looked far more like a village schoolgirl than a young lady who was shortly to make her début in London society.

Like LOT'S wife, she'd orter been turned into a pillow of salt, and then the pillow had orter been sewed up and cast into the sea.

He will tell the hands to pick up what a tired mamma has dropped, and to fetch her a footstool; and the fingers to sew patiently at a warm petticoat for a poor child, or to make warm cuffs for a poor old man.

Short irregularly curved stems cut from clothmostly black, a few reddish brownwere sewn randomly over the rectangles, crossing over and under each other, separate, yet interlocking.

box)about you while you stay herefold and sew it up reverently in a bit of the old psaltery parchment and wear it next your hearts'tis a fragment of the consecrated waferand will help, with the saints' protection, to guard you from harmand be strict in fasts, and constant in prayerI can do nothingnor devise any help.

She has to see my rags, but I spared her the dirt," and he held up the coat to show its rudely sewed-up rents, and turned over his helmet to show the hole in the top.