broidery
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broideries
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Then, one morning, as she sat at her broidery frame alone, she heard voices, and running to see, found Guido and the priest who had married her.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
Upon a Louis XV chair beside an Empire work-table on which stood a vase of flowers, sat the fair Octavie, broidery in hand.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France
I begged of Mother Gaillarde that I might see her once more, and say farewell; and all I got for it was “Mind your broidery, Sister!”
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
For the rest, she played with her maidens the live-long day, or took her broidery frame, plying the needle and long silken thread.
From Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James
Amphillis stooped and gathered up the scattered broidery, glancing at Perrote to see if she were doing right.
From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by W. (William) Rainey
The great hall received you with a statelier formality than before; for it, too, had received also its gift of painting, and its golden broideries.
From The Allen House by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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 Lilian Gask
Shall damask flowers lose their beauty, shall silver lace be tarnished and broideries lack lustre because Ripple has commanded the impossible?
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
And after church, when mass is done, The people to the nave repair Round the tomb to stray; And marvel at the Forms of stone, And praise the chisell'd broideries rare— Then they drop away.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
And in the evening when she was doing her subtle Syrian broideries, it aroused in him queer gusts of controlled fury....
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
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