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WWD also was famous for the breadth of its interest in the entire milieu of the chic and the social, the consumers of high style, the wearers of costly gowns and well-sewn skirts.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2015

Denver, fifteen miles away, came into view, its streets showing like seams in a well-sewn garment, the sun, even at this distance, striking a sheen from the golden dome of the capitol building.

From The Cross-Cut by Cooper, Courtney Ryley

So fill twelve jars, and close each with his lid, and pour me barley-meal into well-sewn skins, and let there be twenty measures of the grain of bruised barley-meal.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew

Having sworn as he asked her, the nurse Eurycleia drew the wine into jars and put the barley-meal into the well-sewn skins.

From The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy by Pogany, Willy

Let me have twelve jars, and see that they all have lids; also fill me some well-sewn leathern bags with barley meal—about twenty measures in all.

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel