" "Perhaps that might make a difference," said Mercy, reflectively: "it would seem quite different to her from taking in sewing, I suppose.

There were reminders of her at every turn,there was the place where she had sat sewing in the evenings; over the fireplace hung a little picture she had painted, rude enough, no doubt, but beautiful to my eyes.

And Miss Wimple turned from Madeline and would have resumed her sewing; but Madeline cried, "Stay, stay, Miss Wimple, I beseech you!

(dropping her sewing)

"Mamma," I heard a little girl inquire recently, as she fingered a scrap of pink gingham of which her mother was making "rompers" for the baby of the family, "why are the threads of this cloth pink when you unravel it one way, and white when you unravel it the other?" The mother was busy; but she laid aside her sewing and explained to the child about the warp and the woof in weaving.

Later, they brought their sewing into the sitting-room.

Victoire ceased sewing and raised her head.

Manuel went to Niafer, and found her sewing.

But she controlled the movement, if not the flush, and fell back into her chair, picking up her sewing, which had dropped on the table.

I've got a fancy for a small yacht, but I suppose I couldn't go a long voyage in a small one?" "Smaller the better," said Edward Tredgold, who was sitting by the window watching Miss Drewitt sewing.

"Well, if you have finished, I move we go to bed, and thence to the land of dreams," said Mrs. Ford, rising and putting away her sewing.

She shook her pretty head and continued sewing on the costume she was to wear at the Oyster Bay Venetian Fête and Go-cart Fair.

No assistance beyond that of an ignorant woman to help keep order and teach a little sewing was obtainable, while Miss Whately's still imperfect acquaintance with Arabic increased the difficulties which are everywhere experienced in the conduct of a ragged school.

It did not make her pause in gathering up her sewing.

With the mothers are a group of girls of ten or twelve, who are learning sewing at an earlier age, when fingers are more pliant and less like to thumbs.

When Katherine had rushed off in such a hurry that day, to help Mary Selincourt out of her fix, Mrs. Burton had left her sewing, and, taking her sister's work in hand, had finished cleaning the shelves, then restored to them the various canisters and boxes according to her own ideas of neatness, instead of with any remembrance as to how they had been arranged previously.

It was a low, cheerful little room that he came into, stooping his tall head: a tea-kettle humming and singing on the wood-fire, that lighted up the coarse carpet and the gray walls, but spent its warmest heat on the low settee where Lois lay sewing, and singing to herself.

Aurore hesitates beside her chair, desirous of resuming her seat, even lifts her sewing from it; but tarries a moment, her alert suspense showing in her eyes.

"One day a lady friend said to me: 'Would you like some nice sewing, easy to do?'

Why, I think we should have missed it more than she would, if we had put her into some back room, and poked her sewing in at her, and left her to herself!

The time allowed for amusement and exercise has been in some cases, very much abridged that the children might learn and practise sewing, knitting, plaiting, &

The news cheered her greatly; but she could not be induced to quit her sewing.

I recollect particularly the sewing up of fierce cats in the petticoats of women.

After an instant MRS HALE has pulled at a knot and ripped the sewing.) MRS PETERS:

Mrs. Monroe had rolled up her sewing and was waiting for her son.