In the making of it, the hammer and nails were mine by right of sex, while she stitched in womanish fashion on the fabrics.

You don't know it, honey, but, honest, I ain't bought a stitch of new clothes for five years.

"Prudence, if thee'll pick up this stitch for me, I will tell thee what I was thinking of when thee and Alice came in.

"I had the best for her thenI jest would do itthere was white shoes and stockin's, and a reg'lar shroud like they make at Watauga; we never put a stitch on her that she'd worehit was all new-bought.

He could see the very break in the thread and the widened stitches at the ends of the rip.

After the six months of comparative seclusion which decency exacted of his widowerhoodand thereby afforded him ample leisure to complete and publish his Lichfield Legislative Papers prior to 1800the colonel, be it repeated, went everywhere; and people found him no whit the worse company for his black gloves and the somber band stitched to his coatsleeve.

'In Sky I first observed the use of brogues, a kind of artless shoes, stitched with thongs so loosely, that, though they defend the foot from stones, they do not exclude water.'

"Nothin'," she murmured, "kin come closer to ye than these pretty things, excep' the love I stitched into 'em.

The fastest practicable speed of a machine worked by the foot appears to be 1,000 stitches per minute.

for two-line lock stitching in fabrics.

The girl who can stitch from morning to night would find two or three hours in the observatory a relief.

His worthy spouse, Madonna Costanza's weary fingers had just completed the stitching of the last of twelve pairs of kid gloves, for her employers, of the Guild of the Fur and Skin Merchantsthe Salvetti, who were her relatives.

"Hold still, will you, Luke?" "Yo're taking twice as many stitches as necessary," grumbled Luke.

"Take this picture, my daughter, and when you think that you cannot do good with small means, remember 'the widow's pot of oil,' and perseveringly use the means you have; when one labor is done, begin another; stitch by stitch you have made this beautiful garment; very large houses are built of little bricks patiently joined together one by one; and 'the widow's small pot of oil' filled many large vessels.

What's left behind are those items that are best suited to the old production scheme: the plays that *need* to be plays, the books that are especially lovely on creamy paper stitched between covers, the music that is most enjoyable performed live and experienced in a throng of humanity.

Tommy opened it now with trembling hands and looked at the little bits of Grizel on it: the beautiful stitching with which she had coaxed the slits to close again; the one patch, so artful that she had clapped her hands over it.

And, just where the scarlet heart was stitched across her breast, she drew out a letter, and, her fascinated gaze still fixed on him, extended her arm.

A most ingenious device in this machine is the arrangement for automatically lengthening the throw of the feed while stitching around the eye of the button hole.

"You're getting all tired and hot," she continued, skilfully pursuing the agile and elusive dropped stitches down the grey woolen wake of the sock and bringing them triumphantly up to resume their place in the sun.

It has a lot of needle holes in it, and the trimmer has to stitch through those holes and then sew the band on to the hat, and all the odds and ends.

The best way to roast a goose breast is to remove the skin from the neck and sew it over the breast and fasten it with a few stitches under the breast, making an incision with a pointed knife in the breast and joints of the goose, so as to be able to insert a little garlic (or onion) in each incision, also a little salt and ginger.

And I placed upon me a scrip of food and drink, that might keep the life within me for a great time, by reason of its preparation; and this lay ready to me, with the armour, and was stitched about with the Mark of Honour; so that I knew loving women thus to speed me.