Example Sentences

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And we, pushing and fighting in the turbid stream Of modern life, find solace in your tarnished broideries.

From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Lowell, Amy

Oh, stores of broideries would be trampled then!

From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Murray, Gilbert

I sit in a library hung with faded rose brocades and tarnished silver broideries.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

It journeys till it 'lights within a court     Where roses riot o'er veined-marble walls,     Where peacocks strut along the broad white steps, Or over broideries by fair hands wrought.

From The Dales of Arcady by Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una

"June gives us wide green carpets and magnificent draperies of the same deep color, but her red and golden broideries are few; it is the hand of July that throws them in with rich profusion."

From After the Storm by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)