Do we say eyelet or islet

eyelet 21 occurrences

This great combination machine is the last and greatest | | Improvement on all former machines, making, in addition to | | all the work done on best Lock-Stitch machines, beautiful | | | | BUTTON AND EYELET HOLES.

<Hole, cavity, excavation, pit, cache, cave, cavern, hollow, depression, perforation, puncture, rent, slit, crack, chink, crevice, cranny, breach, cleft, chasm, fissure, gap, opening, interstice, burrow, crater, eyelet, pore, bore, aperture, orifice, vent, concavity, dent, indentation.

They told us not to spend our time out of school tatting and making eyelet embroidery, when there were neighborhoods to be awakened and citizens to be made.

'Twill be a good while, ere you wish your skin full of eyelet-holes.

Opening N. hole, foramen; puncture, perforation; fontanel^; transforation^; pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole, peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole; eye of a needle; eyelet; slot.

which the prince well perceiving, came to visit his father in his sickness, in a watchet velvet gown, full of eyelet holes, and with needles sticking in them (as an emblem of jealousy), and so pacified his suspicious father, after some speeches and protestations, which he had used to that purpose.

the work done on best Lock-Stitch machines, beautiful | | | | BUTTON AND EYELET HOLES | | | | in all fabrics.

The two sides of a framework, about 6-1/2 by 2-1/2 feet, are placed one on each side of him; five or six broad canvass straps, which are meant to support his body, are placed beneath him by a couple of attendants; two transverse pieces of wood are then introduced at the foot and head, to extend the framework; and the cross straps, by means of eyelet-holes, are attached to the sides, by a row of common brass pins.

A suit of clothes for a ghost, viz., a bloody shirt, a doublet curiously pinked, and a coat with three great eyelet-holes upon the breast.

PRISCILLA FRENCH AND EYELET EMBROIDERY BOOK, a collection of original designs with stitches and lessons for working, by Lilian Barton Wilson.

Priscilla French and eyelet embroidery book.

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PRISCILLA FRENCH AND EYELET EMBROIDERY BOOK, a collection of original designs with stitches and lessons for working, by Lilian Barton Wilson.

Priscilla French and eyelet embroidery book.

SEE Priscilla French and eyelet embroidery book.

When in public the highborn Affgh[=a]n lady is so completely enveloped by her large veil (literally sheet), that the person is entirely concealed from head to foot; there are two eyelet holes in that part of the sheet which covers the face, admitting air and light, and affording to the fair one, herself unseen, a tolerable view of external objects.

Its own weight had nearly closed the loop, for the steel eyelet spliced into the end ran very easily and smoothly on the well-greased rope.

"It's been, so to speak, eyelet-holed.

A minuet course; and, winding up his mouth, From time to time, into an orifice Most delicate, a lurking eyelet, small, And only not invisible, again Open it out, diffusing thence a smile 560 Of rapt irradiation, exquisite.

Sir Francis is watching us from an eyelet-hole in the door.

" Margray's ivory stiletto punched a red eyelet in her finger.

islet 310 occurrences

"The fisher came From his green islet, bringing o'er the waves His wife and little one; the husbandman From the firm land, with many a friar and nun.

The following notice of the same sacred island occurs in one of his despatches: I trust that I may be permitted to offer one remark in reference to Potou, an islet adjoining Chusan, which I touched at on my way from the latter place to Chapoo.

A solitary islet outlined in the distance spoke only of solitude and made the space more lonely.

ADVENTURE WITH A COBRA DI CAPELLO I might have slept some four or five hours, and a dreamless and satisfying sleep it was; but certain it islet scholiasts say what they will, and skeptics throw doubts by handfulls on the assertions of metaphysiciansthat, before I awoke, and in my dreamless slumber, I had a visible perception of perila consciousness of the hovering presence of death!

He took possession of a small sandy islet, not many miles from his native place, where he built a fort, and would occasionally sally forth, and plunder and annoy any vessel that he met with.

While there he crossed to the little islet adjoining, known as Phillip Island.

Strange stories floated across the Pacific concerning the little islet east of the Suvaroff Group, and out of the reticule of the mind I attempted to drag these stories and piece them together during the minutes that passed after Newmarch had given me the information.

The geese stood sleeping on a little rock islet just beyond Fjällbacka.

The English Bishop of New Zealand, landing on a lone islet where no ship had ever touched, found the whole population prostrate with influenza.

For many generations, too, hermit after hermit went to dwell on this tiny islet, and St. Cuthbert himself is said to have inhabited the little cell at one time.

On all these islands sea-birds breed, but especially on the Pinnacles, the Big and Little Harcar, and the islet called the Brownsman.

Upon leaving the cutter we crossed St. George's Basin which appeared to receive several streams on the south side and landed on a small wooded islet for bearings; from which the summits of Mounts Waterloo and Trafalgar bore in a line.

As we passed a small round islet an alligator which had been basking in the sun alarmed at our approach, rushed into the water, and, as we came near the spot, rose to reconnoitre us, but instantly sunk again.

The account of them by the Dutch sloop in 1718 places them in latitude 19 degrees 30 minutes and eighty leagues from the coast of New Holland; but, unless it is Bedout Island (a sandy islet seen by Captain Baudin, in longitude 118 degrees 50 minutes) there is no part of the coast that can at all accord with the description in respect to latitude.

Dn it, I don't care haporth how sick he islet me go, or by the powers I'll murther some of yes."

A small island is called an islet.

And the second islet me be back just before the miracles begin; let everything be just as it was before that blessed lamp turned up.

It also extends beyond the Lys to the little island on which is situated the church of St. Michael, and again to the islet formed between the Lieve and the Lys, which contains the château of the Counts and the Palace Ste.

Near this northern extremity lies the little rocky islet so often mentioned, or the spot which Napoleon, fifteen years later, selected as the advanced redoubt of his insular empire.

Of course the Proserpine was on one side of this islet and the strange lugger on the other.

The first had got so far through the Canal as to be able to haul close upon the wind, on the larboard tack, and yet to clear the islet; while the last was just far enough to windward, or sufficiently to the southward, to be shut out from view from the frigate's decks by the intervening rocks.

As the distance from the islet to the island did not much exceed a hundred or two yards, Captain Cuffe hoped to inclose his chase between himself and the land, never dreaming that the stranger w

Instead of avoiding the narrow pass between the two islands, Raoul glided boldly into it; and by keeping vigilant eyes on his fore-yard, to apprise him of danger, he succeeded in making two stretches in the strait itself, coming out to the southward on the starboard tack, handsomely clearing the end of the islet at the very instant the frigate appeared on the other side of the pass.

The lugger had now an easy task of it; for she had only to watch her enemy, and tack in season, to keep the islet between them, since the English did not dare to carry so large a ship through so narrow an opening.

This advantage Raoul did not overlook, and Cuffe had gone about twice, closing each time nearer and nearer to the islet, before he was satisfied that his guns would be of no service until he could at least weather the intervening object, after which they would most probably be useless in so light a wind by the distance between them and their enemy.

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