broidery
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broideries
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The Romance is in rondo form with love-lorn iteration of themes and intermezzo, and deftest broidery, the whole ending, after a graceful Recollection, in a bliss of harmony.
If she would have broidery silks, or flowers, or any sort of women’s toys, she hath but to say, and my Lady my mother shall ride to Derby for them.
From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by W. (William) Rainey
To own a meadow, with all its thousand-fold fringes of grasses, its broidery of monthly flowers, and its outriders of birds, and bees, and gold-winged insects—this is something that establishes one's heart.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
That broidery which my Lady desires is not so.”
From Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Emily Sarah Holt
He drew from an inner pocket a little scarf of apple green with knotted fringes, and butterflies, various colored in dainty broidery.
From The Flute of the Gods by Marah Ellis Ryan
To a dame in her broideries dainty This drift of the furnace I tendered; O day of ill luck, for a lover So lured, and so heartlessly cheated!
From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
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
Oh, stores of broideries would be trampled then!
From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray
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 Amy Lowell
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 Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
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