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With them went thousands of peasants, a mule caravan carrying dismantled machinery, Singer sewing-machines, printing equipment.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ladies on the block got him to fix their electric lights or sewing-machines when something went wrong.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

We find them on power sewing-machines, making caps, waists, bags, and mops; we find them doing pressing and various hand operations in these same shops.

From Women of Achievement Written for the Fireside Schools by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith

Gracie and Eliza were the two who sat at the side-table before their whirring sewing-machines, their very spectacles nearly darting from their heads with energy and speed.

From A Lame Dog's Diary by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)

He was also by turns an agent for books, subscription engravings, sewing-machines, and what not.

From True and Other Stories by Lathrop, George Parsons