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
You just take a needleful of that yellow worsted and start tracking across a couple of yards of red and pathless desert, and see where you come out.
From Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans
She dropped half a needleful of stitches in her knitting, and told Tom she wished he'd hold his tongue, for he kept up such a jabbering that he made all her stitches run down.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
"Ah!" said Miss Montaubyn, drawing out a long needleful of thread, "Bet, she thinks it worse than it is."
From The Dawn of a To-morrow by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
Then, armed with a cork and a needleful of white silk, I called Pola, and asked if he wanted the ear-rings badly enough to endure the necessary operation.
From The Spinner's Book of Fiction by Various
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