39 collocations for stitched

Now, as we worked, I glanced occasionally towards Jessop, and saw that he stitched a band of the light duck around each end of the framework which he had made, and these bands I judged to be about four feet wide, in this wise leaving an open space between the two, so that now the thing looked something like to a Punchinello show, only that the opening was in the wrong place, and there was too much of it.

It is, to-day, in | | the best of order, stitching fine linen bosoms nicely.

Mozart's soprano stitches the heart together.

There are only two more Saturdays till Christmas, and to-day I want to feather-stitch the little new blue dress for Susie.

A short time afterwards the young Queen heard her husband talking in his sleep, saying, "Boy, make me a coat, and then stitch up these trowsers, or I will lay the yard-measure over your shoulders!"

High speed lock stitch two needle Singer machine 112W118, by Archibald Tregaskis.

Singer machine 110W150, for stitching operations on shoe uppers, by Archibald Tregaskis.

Then the doctor hurried in: Fanny at his needle swooned, As he held her crimson chin, And together stitched the wound.

There sits he stitching half asleep, Beside his smoky tallow dip.

The legislators were asked to imagine themselves operating a machine whose speed was gauged up to nine thousand stitches a minute; to consider how many stitches the operator's hand must guide in a week, a month, a year, in order to earn a living; working thus eleven, twelve hours a day, knowing that the end was nervous breakdown, and decrease of earning power.

It was finished, but she had not till now stitched the initials into the cloth.

Leslie stitched up three little legs before Dakie came again, and said they must have her upstairs.

And in the evening Mark came in, with a bottle of the '21 in his coat-tail pocket; and the three sat and chatted, while Mary brought out her work, and stitched listening silently, till it was time to lead the old man upstairs.

While the meeting was going on she was busy at home stitching strong paper tract-bags for sailors at sea, till she felt ill and had to be assisted to her room.

She was a true helpmeet, who stitched his pamphlets, folded his newspapers, waited on customers at the shop, and nursed and tended his illegitimate child.

Push the licence to excess, and stitch together a volume of unrelated chapters,a patchwork of descriptions, dialogues, and incidents,no one will call that a novel; and the less the work has of this unorganised character the greater will be its value, not only in the eyes of critics, but in its effect on the emotions of the reader.

The following extract from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal gives the date of the stanzas added to 'Ruth' in subsequent editions: "Sunday, March 8th, 1802.I stitched up 'The Pedlar,' wrote out 'Ruth', read it with the alterations....

If your very little ones run about with their dolls, and stitch together a few petticoats for them; if the elder sisters will then take care of the younger, and the whole household know how to supply its own wants, and one member of it help the others, the further step into life will not then be great, and such a girl will find in her husband what she has lost in her parents.

One whole morning, too, we spent in cutting out and stitching together pieces of newspapers so as to form little paths to every chair, lest the shoes of visitors should defile the purity of the carpet.

She stitched sincere pity for herself into that piece of embroidery.

I am getting on very fast with her; Emma has stitched all the sails, and only three little men remain to be dressed; while I have cut the blocks, and set the ropes in order.

When the handle is turned, it stitches and travels over the edges, uniting them faster and more securely than six hand sewers; and several others, representative of the family type of sewing machine, besides Wheeler & Wilson's hemstitch machine, the working of which is of much interest.

Now Dick was to go in quest of a fortune, and all the girls were stitching shirts for him, and were as happy as possible.

She could not fit a bias to save her life; she could only stitch up a straight slant, and leave the rest to nature and fate.

"Not a bit of it," remarked Amos Parr, who was squatted on the deck busily engaged in constructing a rope mat, while several of the men sat round him engaged in mending sails, or stitching canvas slippers, etc.

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