broidery
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If I would not as lief as forty shillings have done with broidery and peltry, then the moon is made of green cheese.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Holt, Emily Sarah
If I had been Margaret, now, I could not have sat quietly to that broidery.
From Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Holt, Emily Sarah
The chrysanthemums of autumn burned upon his coat in cunning broidery.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace
The lady's lost A very curious reason, wrought about With diverse broidery.
From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various
Tanned and bleached to the whiteness of a wedding glove, with some ornamental stitching and broidery, it furnishes a foot gear, alike comfortable and becoming.
From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.
She therefore summoned to the castle the most skilful workers in silks and broideries, who toiled in her service day and night, that she might be richly adorned at the Royal Tournament.
From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Gask, Lilian
Oh, stores of broideries would be trampled then!
From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Murray, Gilbert
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
That other, big with rich velvets and broideries, seeks the tricolor of France.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
Why strain thy sandal-string so hard? or why the daily change Of mantles, robes, and broideries, of fashions new and strange?
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.
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