30 Verbs to Use for the Word embroidery

Beth resumed her embroidery with a demure smile that made Skim decide at once that "he picked the pretty one.

Bianca, whose white hands had been taught no such useful duties, set about working the most charming embroidery.

The remainder of the journey to Joannina, the capital then of the famous Ali Pasha, was rendered unpleasant by the wetness of the weather; still it was impossible to pass through a country so picturesque in its features, and rendered romantic by the traditions of robberies and conflicts, without receiving impressions of that kind of imagery which constitutes the embroidery on the vestment of poetry.

" Bob delivered the embroidery and note to Mrs. Dodson, and was on his way back home when he saw Susan Skipper, Mrs. Dodson's hired girl, and Dent Freeman, the hired man of the place, washing the big front windows of the housethat is, Dent was washing them, perched upon a step-ladder, for Susan was quite heavy and was afraid to trust herself very high in the air.

Naturally he did not admire Augustus Clarence Percy Marmaduke Grobble (learned in millinery; competent, as modes varied, to discuss harem, hobble, pannier, directoire, slit, or lamp-shade skirts, berthes, butterfly-motif embroideries, rucked ninon sleeves, chiffon tunics, and similar mysteries of the latest fashion-plates, with a lady undecided).

I secretly wished that the building had been designed as a gay pagoda with bright colored, turned-up eaves like many of those in Chinatown and that its windows had displayed the choice embroideries and carved ivories of some of its neighbors, but as we peered through the glass, we saw only utilitarian articles for the coolie Chinaman.

Leonora had dropped her embroidery upon the bench and was looking upward, her head thrown back, the muscles of her arching neck tense and drawn.

there are cultivated men who enjoy Kensington embroidery.

The capes and chasubles were piled on the shelves, according to colours, with the collars outside the heap, so that people could examine the wonderful embroidery.

'When I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread, I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery,' ii. 88.

I asked of Dorothy, who lingered at the threshold folding her embroidery into a bundle.

Or, if the road-side has no hedge, the ugliest stone fence (such as, in America, would keep itself bare and unsympathizing till the end of time) is sure to be covered with the small handiwork of Nature; that careful mother lets nothing go naked there, and, if she cannot provide clothing, gives at least embroidery.

He noted that the monkey's ribbon exactly matched the embroidery on Adelaide's dress.

At Hanover, she wrote, the tradespeople had been for many weeks in full employ, framing and mounting the embroideries of the ladies and girls of all classes; of all classes, for not a folly or extravagancy existed among the great but it was imitated by the little.

Mr. Sami Joo is endeavouring to sell boots from the bow, while Guffar Ali is pressing embroidery on our acceptance from the stern.

Martha Josselyn had asked her yesterday about the stitch,some little baby-daintiness she had thought of for the mother who couldn't afford embroideries and thread-laces for her youngest and least of so many.

Ask any soldier, Federal or otherwise, if he will give up his pay, or his jingling sword, or even his rank; he may perhaps consent, but ask him to rip off his embroidery, and he will answer, never!

Thus runs the embroidery of love, and in the midst appears A phoenix, painted clear, the bird that lives eternal years.

The mother thereafter supported herself and her son sewing embroideries.

then you must shew me your embroidery.'

Otherwise, I should have to prattle of an infinity of mysteriesof her scarfs, feathers, laces, gloves, girdles, knots, hats, shoes, fans, and slippersof her embroideries, rings, pins, pendants, ribbons, spangles, bracelets, and chainsin fine, there would be no end to the list of gewgaws that went to make Margaret Hugonin even more adorable than Nature had fashioned her.

" CHAPTER IX DOCTOR PATSY Next morning Uncle John and the Weldonsincluding the precious babywent for a ride into the mountains, while Beth and Patsy took their embroidery into a sunny corner of the hotel lobby.

The stout, sour-visaged lady who was half-hidden by her newspaper at the other end of the table was also a bread-winner, for she taught embroidery to the women of her acquaintance and made various articles of fancy-work that were sold at Biggar's Emporium, the largest store in Cloverton.

Ho! friend," cried Saphir Ali, to the guide; "in the name of the king of the genii, it seems you have made a compact with the thorns to tear the embroidery from my tschoukhá.

" Angela traced the steel embroidery on a gray suède bag which lay on the table.

30 Verbs to Use for the Word  embroidery