Gull went straight away to the matron's room, and asked her to sew the two buttons on his waistcoat; he'd pulled them off on purpose.

She cut out a round of paper and tried to sew round it, holding it in place with her other hand.

The girls learned to sew and cook, just as they learned to read,as a matter of habit rather than of instruction.

"Well, I wanted it to sew up a fifty dollar bill for safe-keeping.

She thought of Di's girlish folly, her irritating independence"and there," Lulu thought, "just the other day I was teaching her to sew."

Not to lose ground, however, she hired herself to the neighbouring farmers' wives to sew during her spare time, leaving Dame Damerel to the occasional care of Susan Larkin.

"She'd a good deal better be learnin' to sew and knit.

and taught you Greek, Instead of teaching you to sew!

This he turned inside out, and did his best to sew on a welt.

Suppose you were to sew, etc., your own publications?

" "The darkest lot is not all gloom," thought she as she sat down by her little table and began to sew.

This is what goes on: "O-liv-i-a!" I go into the nursery, and Jean, very wide awake, demands a needle and thread, as she wants to sew a dress for Topsy.

The next morning she went out and collected the star-flowers to sew together.

My sister learned to sew.

"A few months ago, being near her residence and hearing that her health was better, I called on her, and to my surprise, found her able to sew, walk about, and even go down stairs.

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.

"To spin and to weave, to knit and to sew, was once a girl's employment; but now to dress and catch a beau, is all she calls enjoyment.

Now, let us consider that to sew an inch of thread into lock stitches frequently involves its being drawn up and down through both needle and fabric twenty times.

Mrs. Porter had learnt her to sew.

JORDAN, NINA R. How to sew.

My tailor fell immediately to work, and made every one of them a shirt; after which, he learned the women how to sew and stitch, thereby to become the more helpful to their husbands.

This lady took a pleasure in teaching her to sew and embroider.

"I am not unwomanly, señor, although I confess I do not understand babies and do detest to sew.

" "How to sew!

She brought a little basket filled with rags, worn-out embroideries, collars, cuffs, and edges of handkerchiefs, from which she cut the needle-work, to sew again on new muslin.