The needlework of Egypt and Byzantium, the laces of Venice and of Spain, are historic.

On leisure days, the housemaid should be able to do some needlework for her mistress,such as turning and mending sheets and darning the house linen, or assist her in anything she may think fit to give her to do.

When these were done, she took some needlework from her basket, and sat down beside the lattice, where the honeysuckle and woodbine filled the room with their delicious breath.

The finishing stroke was seen in the parlour of the inn, or the farm-house, in the shape of needlework as a samplar;"Lydia Languish, her work, done at school, in the year of our Lord, 1809."

"Their business was only needlework in which I and my maids, sometimes helped them; but you know that the mind will easily straggle from the fingers, nor will you suspect that captivity and absence from Nekayah could receive solace from silken flowers.

Sometimes I gazed into it as a child from without, wondering at the needlework on the chairs, the screens, the looking-glasses which never reflected any living face.

It's a rotten big place where gentlemen aspire to sell gloves and handkerchiefs and needlework over the shop counters.

His daughterthe now well-behaved, the now modest, Remedios, who was passing day after day at complicated needlework under the tutelage of doña Bernardahad grown up like a wild rabbit of the fields, repeating with shocking fidelity all the oaths and vile language she heard from the carters her father drank with.

On that morning, after eleven o'clock, Matilde came to Veronica's room, bringing a piece of needlework with her, and she sat down to stay a while.