nor I would not for twenty princes," added the sempstress.

30 You better might employ your parts, And aid the sempstress in her arts.

I asked the spinster-sempstress.

The wife and daughters of a man of East Indian wealth were not to be clothed like meaner souls; and the sight of three London bonnets in my pew had set the old sempstress in a blaze.

How they speak of the thousand thumbs, that have turned over their pages with delight!of the lone sempstress, whom they may have cheered (milliner, or harder-working mantua-maker) after her long day's needle-toil, running far into midnight, when she has snatched an hour, ill spared from sleep, to steep her cares, as in some Lethean cup, in spelling out their enchanting contents!