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(7) An attachment to a sewing-machine for regulating the strain of the thread.

With these two facts in mind, we need not (unless we are experts in mechanics, physics, statical electricity, or the sewing-machine) go to the trouble of committing the special senses of tension; for should occasion bid, we canfrom our position at the heart of the wordeasily grasp their rough purport.

Elias Howe patents the sewing-machine.

Gloriana had borrowed a sewing-machine from a neighbour, and worked harder than ever, inflaming her eyes and our curiosity.

She started up abruptly from her sewing-machine with her mouth full of pins, emptying them into her hand as she went.

They will superintend the staff of blacksmiths; and if the sewing-machine of the mem sahib, the gun-lock of the luna sahib, the lawn-mower, English pump, or other machine gets out of order, requiring any metal work, the mistree is called in, and is generally competent to put things to rights.

I do think it is an incongruous sight to see, as I saw this afternoon, a native, naked but for a loin cloth, plying a Singer's sewing-machine.

At one end a dirzee squats with a sewing-machine, surrounded by white stuff in various stages of progress for the Mem Sahib and the children.

It was a handsome box, of curious shape, with a round cover over, and a handle to carry it bya sewing-machine in these parts!

But thisthis mowing-machine of his'twas a crawling nest of steel springs and hooks and apparatus, and hundreds of screwsInger's sewing-machine was a bookmarker compared with this!

What was a sewing-machine to this?

FOURTH: AMERICAN BUTTONHOLE, OVERSEAMING, AND SEWING-MACHINE.

I would out-mother mother, for she only saw to the making of the sacks: I would make them myself, every one of them, on my sewing-machine.

She sat before a sewing-machine.

In another a sewing-machine of American make testified to the thrift and progressiveness of one household.

It was still the period of transition in the introduction of the sewing-machine.

" I wheeled out a kind of sewing-machine; then I pedaled it while Mike dug into that Injun's hangin' wall like he had a round of holes to shoot before quittin'-time.

In a little summer house opposite Isabella now sits at work on the sewing-machine.

I think it is most like the needle of a sewing-machine, with the eye at the point, so that it pokes the thread through as it goes into the cloth, instead of pulling it through with the other end.

He remembered how much surprised he had been a few days before, when the quiet girl, whom he had thought a sort of animated sewing-machine, suddenly developed so much force of thought in her defense of the clergy.

In the evening she will go to a concert or a lecture, and then, at the end of all, she will very possibly sit up after midnight with her sewing-machine, doing extra shop-work to pay for little Ella's music-lessons.

The room where he worked was a small box-like place off the living-room, a cheerless enough abode with a little high barred window in it as in a prison-cell, cardboard-boxes piled high with feminine garments, a sewing-machine, old dusty books, and a broken-down perambulator occupying most of the space.

The whirr of a sewing-machine came forth to him, but it paused in answer to his knock, and Mrs. Merston's voice bade him enter.

His father was a gun-maker and an expert mechanic of marked intelligence and ingenuity who numbered among his friends Howe, the creator of the sewing-machine.