needleful
Britishnoun
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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
Old Mis' Meade, translating this, held her breath and waited; but Amarita only sighed and took a needleful of thread.
From Country Neighbors by Alice Brown
Tom Thumb's mother once took him with her when she went to milk the cow; it being a very windy day, she tied him with a needleful of thread to a thistle.
From The History of Tom Thumb and Other Stories. by Anonymous
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 Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
"What a tangled thread it is, to be sure," jerking at her knotty needleful.
From What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson
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