needle fly

British  

noun

1. a small stonefly of the genus Leuctra, whose rolled-up wings at rest give it a slender pointed appearance

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Example Sentences

Stitch, stitch, stitch, Swiftly, little needle, fly, Through this flannel, soft and warm; Though with cold the soldiers sigh, This will sure keep out the storm.

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Swiftly, little needle, fly, Through this flannel, soft and warm; Though with cold the soldiers sigh, This will sure keep out the storm.

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He sat brooding over his yellow papers, and she let her needle fly through the crackling calico.

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So, as soon as the chops had been eaten, Mollie produced her mother's work-basket and a shabby little cotton-box that was appropriated to her own use, and sewed industriously, only pausing at intervals to watch the white, slender fingers that seemed to make the needle fly through the stuff.

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But, no: down sat the shadow, and began to sew, making her needle fly like a real little seamstress.

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