was quilting
- past progressive of quilt.
Example Sentences
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We waited in vain for quite awhile, but finally in came three or four women, one with a cloth shoe sole she was quilting, and another carrying a baby.
From Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries by Williamson, Mabel