Men with too short coat-sleeves and collars turned up; women with beery eyes and uneven skirt-hems dank with the bilge-water of life's lower decks.

Hang him, regard him not; theres hemming indeede, like a Cat, God blesse us, with a burre in her throate.

By good fortune she found blind Nora hemming napkins and in a mood to converse.

I found my friend demurely seated in her mother's rocking-chair hemming table linen and towels for her new home, anon bargaining with butchers, bakers, and grocers, making cakes and puddings, talking with enthusiasm of palatable dishes and the beauties of various articles of furniture that different friends had presented her.

Father took me into a parlor, where sat a handsome, fat woman, hemming towels.