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...rt and I felt her large eyes look at me, but I went on with it and with my needlework. “—I can’t say that I am quite sure I dated the receipt right. C... ...d upon mine and she looked through me when I was forced to look up from my needlework, but I had taken the precaution of having on my spectacles. “I h... ...enerally only when I read to her, for of course she and me had our bits of needlework to plod at and neither of us was very handy at those little thin...

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...ng any such uncomfortable discovery, sat down in her tidy little manner to needlework, and began stitching away at a great rate. The silence all about... ...re heart in it than her own singing now. The book went to its shelf as the needlework had gone to its box, and, since something must be done—thought t...

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...widow, sitting at a neighbouring window across a little garden, engaged in needlework, with a young child sleep- ing on her bosom. The silence continu... ... with a nod and a wave of the hand, the young widow had held up to her the needlework on which she was engaged, with a patient and pleasant smile. So ...

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...lear- starcher’s, and so exquisitely stitched that, regarded as a piece of needlework alone, it’s better than the sampler of a seamstress undergoing a...

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...cent and sombre dress, her simple gravity, and that fine piece of priestly needlework, she looked like some pious lay-member of a sisterhood, living b...

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... the young lady one evening, and found her alone in the dining-room at her needlework. He stayed rather late; and after abundance of superfine discour...

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...I came thereto and took him, lo there I saw a fair woman, and she sat by a needlework of gold, and did thereon, my deeds that are passed, and my deeds... ...of heart that I might not get Sigurd to me!” Then she sat up and smote her needlework, and rent it asun- der, and bade set open her bower doors, that ... ... “Arise, for we have slept long; go, wake Brynhild, and let us fall to our needlework and be merry.” “Nay, nay,” she says, “nowise may I wake her, or ... ...kon, for seven seasons, and abode with good welcome. And she set forth her needlework before her and did thereinto many deeds and great, and fair play...

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...her indignation, she found there was to be an hour of reading aloud and of needlework-actual plain needlework. The three girls were making under-garme... ...ejudiced every one her who is used to something better! Don’t you love art needlework?’ ‘Maude Sefton has been working Goosey Goosey Gander on a toile... ...day after the New Zealand letters came, just as the historical reading and needlework were in full force, the schoolroom door was opened, and a brisk ... ...ul to relate) ‘Val,’ and containing—oh! such treasures, a blue egg full of needlework implements, a new book, an In- dian ivory case, a skipping-rope,... ...ench reading in turn from ‘En Quarantaine’ followed, with accompaniment of needlework or drawing, after which the children were free. Aunt Jane was go...

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...as she withdrew to the other side of the table, and took a small packet of needlework from her basket. But she laid it down again, on second thoughts,... ... said Milly, drying her eyes, and shaking her head. “You won’t care for my needlework now.” “Is it forgiving me, to say that?” She beckoned him aside,...

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..., though he had been an Infant Samson. To change the theme, Dot did a little needlework — she carried the contents of a whole workbox in her pocket; h... ...contrived it, I don’t know — then did a little nurs ing; then a little more needlework; then had a little whis pering chat with May, while the old l...

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...ss again; Rose had ceased to repeat her Psalms aloud, but was still at her needlework; another doze, another wak- ing. There was some hope of Rose now...

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...t. Indeed, the good lady’s education had only included reading, writ- ing, needlework and cookery, and she knew no language but her own. Her husband h... ...ess, who slept with her, and was her plaything and her pupil in French and needlework. The fiction of her being guest and not prisoner had not entirel... ... association with the boys at the castle, and to keep her at home to study needlework and housewifery. As to her acting with boys before the assembled... ...him and with Cis, who no longer went to school, but was trained at home in needlework and housewifery. Match-making began at so early an age, that whe... ...rning Mary made a most urgent one for writing materials, books, and either needlework or spinning. Pen and ink had been expressly forbidden, the only ... ...life in France, till sometimes they both went to sleep. Most of her dainty needlework was done in the long light mornings, for she hardly slept at all... ... faith; and the time was not spent very pleasantly, as she had nothing but needlework to oc- 315 Charlotte M. Yonge cupy her, and no soc... ...frey had been admitted to Queen Mary’s room, where she sat as usual at her needlework. “You bring me tidings, my friend,” she said, as he bent his kne...

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...nd gladly discovered that she was just the person who could assist in some needlework which was required at Broom Hill. She asked Lilias to tell her w... ... which they had to write a heavy burden; neither Emily nor Lily could like needlework; they could have no music, for the piano at the other end of the... ...heir clothes than with their food; Eleanor had carefully taught them plain needlework, and they had assisted in making more than one set of shirts; bu...

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...rimshawe s Secret in bread making, sweeping, dusting, washing, the coarser needlework, and such other things as she would require to know when she cam... ...er whether you teach her anything, unless you happen to be acquainted with needlework.” “I will talk with the children,” said Colcord, “and see if I a... ...any of it.” Note 2. Author’s note .—”Crusty Hannah teaches Elsie curi ous needlework, etc.” Note 3. These two children are described as follows in an...

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...etely unclean. But Mrs. Hermann would raise her fine womanly eyes from her needlework to look on with amused sympathy, and did not seen to see it, som...

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... in. Behind a counter crowded with pin-cushions, watch-hold- ers and other needlework trifles, a plump young woman with smooth hair sat sewing bows of...

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...ere were carved chests inlaid with ivory, and cushions, perfect marvels of needlework, as were the curtains and coverlets of the mighty bed, and the s... ...leave to send Sister Mabel to fetch a selection of the older nuns given to needlework and embroidery to enjoy the exhibition, though it was to be care...

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...CT IS GIVEN TO THE DOLLS’ DRESSMAKER’S DISCOVERY MRS JOHN ROKESMITH SAT at needlework in her neat little room, beside a basket of neat little articles... ... of view, with nothing on but a thimble), had been teaching this branch of needlework to Mrs John Rokesmith. It was near John’s time for coming home, ...

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...nd sing? She can talk French, I suppose, and do geography, and globes, and needlework, and everything?” “No doubt,” said I. “I can’t,” she returned. “... ...ar. Ada’s sleeping room was all flowers—in chintz and paper, in velvet, in needlework, in the brocade of two stiff courtly chairs which stood, each at... ...ons, with some 70 Bleak House – Vol. One difficulty; and a composition in needlework representing fruit, a kettle, and an alphabet. All the movables,... ...so extremely brazen and so much too large. Most extraordinary specimens of needlework appeared on several parts of his dress, where it had been hastil... ... That old girl reappearing by and by, quite fresh, and sitting down to her needlework, then and only then—the greens being only then to be considered ... ...ime, as Bagnet has himself. She, equally discreet, busies herself with her needlework. The case fully stated, Mr. Bagnet resorts to his standard artif...

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...lly sleepless to both sisters. She was principally useful by her exquisite needlework, both in church embroidery and for sales; and likewise as the re... ...d Gillian had to assist the masculine brains in the depart- ment of Church needlework, actually venturing to under- take some herself, trusting to the... ...resence or in voice, was very inconvenient. All were settled down to their needlework, with their babies dis- posed of as best they might be. Mr. Habl...