needleful
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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She took a new needleful of thread, waxed it carefully, threaded her needle with a steady hand, and then observed, with perfect composure—
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
How has it been with you since your return? and," as she separated a needleful of silk from what seemed an inextricable tangle, "if I may ask, what have you been doing?
From David Harum A Story of American Life by Westcott, Edward Noyes
When a needleful of one thread was used up, the next was taken, apparently quite irrespective of the colour or shade.
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs
The beaded bag, cunningly contrived, needleful by needleful, from little colored strands of glass caviar, glittered its hour.
From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
And I am quite confident, that, if all the four hundred muscles of your present body were twisted together by a rope-maker, they would not furnish that patient young laborer with a needleful of thread.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various
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