How To Use Sewed In A Sentence
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I sewed by hand and by machine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surgeons sewed most of the piece back on but were unable to replace a small section.
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His mother sewed his clothes while he was young and knitted socks giving him a handmade pair for his birthday for many years.
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My mum made our own clothes and sewed winter coats.
The Sun
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A large sword gash in his side, which had been sewed up, but from which the blood continually oozed, was the obvious cause of his present condition, and, to all human appearance, his death warrant.
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.
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She sewed and chatted with the wardrobe staff in the theater basement and tirelessly ran errands for the performers.
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You would unpick the sides of your jeans and as soon as you sewed the material into it and put them on, you just thought you were gorgeous.
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But Zeus rescued her unborn child, sewed it up in his own thigh, and brought it forth afterwards.
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Tavara was the one who had mended Gordon, and she'd also resewed a couple of the acolyte's shifts so that Glory would have something to change into besides her jeans.
The Warslayer
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His voice was thick; stress sewed together the furrows between his eyes.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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As she sewed she sung in a low undervoice, not looking up.
The Emigrant Trail
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Finally, the attendant picked up the pacifier, attached it to a ribbon, and sewed it to the child's shirt.
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Wendy spent every second of her spare time cutting thousands of triangle-shaped flags from scrap material, then, helped by friends, she sewed each flag onto a length of string.
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He marveled at everything about her — the white rickrack she sewed along the hem and neckline of her dress to give it what she called pizzazz, her heart-shaped face, the hollow at the base of her throat, where he hung a heart-shaped locket.
Butchers Hill
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I measured the hat, went out and got ribbon and silver trim, came home and figured out that the silver trim was just not powerful enough to overcome the gold trim, took the gold trim off, found out that the danged gold trim had also been helping to keep the wire in the edge of the brim, resewed that with invisible thread, and now
Kauri's Katharsis
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If this patch is used to repair skirts near the band, only three sides are oversewed, the upper edge should be gathered into the band.
Textiles and Clothing
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She resewed old clothes for the children who grew too fast, kept three chicks in the kitchen until they were eaten by a cat, and later, during another famine, after World War II, bought the last rickety piglet off a horse-drawn cart that had stopped for a few minutes on their street.
A Mountain of Crumbs
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They were called wampumpeag, were sewed on deer or other fine skins, and the belts thus made were used to emphasize points in negotiation or in treaties, or in speeches.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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Those who sewed in the workshops of the fashionable London couturiers endured harsh working conditions.
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She sewed the dresses on the sewing machine which had been a wedding present from the Marchioness of Penrith.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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She did not have the beauty of Pete's wife, but she cooked and sewed and did not go to evening classes.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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She primmed up her mouth tighter and tighter, puckering it as if it were sewed, in her effort to keep her will uppermost.
The Fox
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He stood about twenty feet from me wearing his oil-stained navy blue mechanic’s jacket, the one with the patch with his name sewed on it.
Richard Paul Evans Ebook Christmas Set
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After padding firmly, the front opening should be oversewed.
Textiles and Clothing
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Inuit women sewed parkas from tanned animal hides until modernization led to the use of duffel wool.
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He sewed a jumpsuit and mittens for this super - cat who obviously loved this game.
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When I got better and could talk as much as I pleased, she wanted to know how many of us there were, what we did, and how we did it: what we ate, and what kind of underclothes we wore in winter, and how many times a week we bathed all over; when we got up, and what we studied, and how long we sewed each day, and how long we played, and when we went to bed -- and all sorts of other things.
Mary Cary "Frequently Martha"
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It was of soft leather, and about eight inches wide, sewed lengthways and breadthways in small squares, in which, I presumed the diamonds were deposited.
The Little Savage
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Unlike the laundries I've used since coming to the city, we inspected shirts for buttons broken by the presses and sewed on new ones without being asked.
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The cobbler's work became easier with Lyman Reed Blake's invention of a sewing machine that sewed the soles of shoes to their upper parts in 1858.
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He'd been taken to hospital where he'd been formally charged while the casualty staff sewed up his cuts.
DEAD BEAT
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It was of soft leather, and about eight inches wide, sewed lengthways and breadthways in small squares, in which I presumed the diamonds were deposited.
The Little Savage
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Next, sew the lining exactly as you sewed the vest itself, again leaving the side seams open.
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The peasant carefully sewed money into his belt.
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Jacob Davis, a tailor from Nevada, took large pieces of denim and sewed them together with metal thread, to make what we now know today as jeans.
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The same can be said of the intricate and beautifully embroidered designs seen in the garments of the Bila-an or the oversewed fabrics of the Kulaman, while the crudely embroidered patterns of the
The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition
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I was allowed to attend the ceremony, to which I wore a beautiful pair of bottle-green velvet short trousers which Mum sewed for me, a pair of fire-engine red patent leather buckled shoes, white socks, and a little white shirt with smocking and a frilly round collar, extremely smart.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Each figure is linked to the next by the thread of incident, person and incident passing on together until, as Lu Hsün, the famous modern Chinese writer, has said, «they are like scraps of brilliant silk and satin sewed together. »
Pearl Buck - Nobel Lecture
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Also, I bought my zills after class (the Arabesque ones) and so I took them home and sewed on the elastic and my favorite beads on the thumbs (so you can tell them apart) and then sewed a very proud making zill bag with some black silk and my left over trim and tassels and some ribbon.
Finger cymbals too loud? problem solved: crocheted zill covers « raincoaster
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The "Buyapart," valued at twenty-five cents, is a piece of cloth four inches square, covered thickly over with the small shells called cowries, sewed on.
Journal of an African Cruiser
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_Welting cord_, a cord sewed into the welt or border of a garment.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
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My love of making things began at a very young age, when I sewed my first pair of geese from a pattern my mom had in her sewing room.
Archive 2007-12-01
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Women, it is commonly believed, sewed the rebel flag that was unfurled on Bakery Hill as a symbol of united resistance.
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She sewed and chatted with the wardrobe staff in the theater basement and tirelessly ran errands for the performers.
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In the weeks that followed, the Queen sat hour after hour at the window. In her lap was the crimson velvet and she sewed it in silks as bloody as the dawn.
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I read some books aloud as she sewed and then we packed a picnic lunch and ate it by a nearby spring.
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It was so tough that to lengthen a sleeve, for example, you simply butted the new section to the old and sewed them together.
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More appeared just before his second birthday, so medics sewed a radioactive plaque on to an eye to zap tumours directly.
The Sun
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They sewed the squares together to make a huge pad that was then dragged under the ship by means of cables which were first looped under the frigate's bows, then dragged back under her hull till the huge pad of material was fothered up against the sprung timbers.
Sharpe's Devil
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My mother sewed a new cotton - padded jacket for me.
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I sewed by hand and by machine.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had the team title sewed up before the championship matches had begun.
Kitsap Sun Stories
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She sewed the dresses on the sewing machine.
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My mother did beadwork, tanned all the skins, sewed furs, made soap, smoked meat.
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He opened his jacket. His shirt collar was securely sewed.
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She sewed it on with needle and thread.
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The houses are mostly frame, unplastered, but "papered" inside with flour-sacks sewed together, and the handsomer the "brand" upon the sacks is, the neater the house looks.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866)
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When she had created 10 of these squares, Fatica hand-sewed them together, then dissolved the Aqua Film, which resulted in odd shapes of material that resemble a series of fused threads or pieces of bouclé fabric that are soft to the touch.
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The peasant carefully sewed money into his belt.
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While courting Jeremy's mother in the fifties, he sewed her a dress for every date they had.
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He machine-sewed sequins onto linen to render a view of iconic factories with smokestacks.
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Lying on the top of the salt-box was a bunch of fairy flax, and sewed in the folds of her own scapular was the dust of what had once been a four-leaved shamrock, an invaluable specific for seein the good people, if they happened to come within the bounds of vision.
The Lianhan Shee
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They calked the seams with the long moss which hung in profusion from the neighboring trees; the pines supplied them with pitch; the Indians made for them a kind of cordage; and for sails they sewed together their shirts and bedding.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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Miss Hagar's pocket-hankercher and he guv me a bag made outen de skin ob a rattlesnake, an 'he put in it a rabbit's foot an' er sarpint's toof, an 'er squorerpin's tail wid a leetle dust outen de graveyard an' he sewed up de bag.
Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice
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I removed the loose fragments and elevated the depressed ones, filled the thing full of sulfonamide and sewed him up tight.
Medpundit
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She sewed a patch onto the knee of the trousers.
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His "britches" are dressed buckskin, tight as the skin, with sole-leather buttons sewed on with a leather thong.
Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
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Women habitually baked bread, churned butter, brewed beer, sewed clothes, knitted stockings, spun yarn, and even sometimes milled flour and wove cloth.
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I sewed Hydrangea petals along the waistline attached with a single iridescent glass Mill Hill Bead and also added a few scattered throughout the bottom overskirt in the same manner.
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Because of it, the poor freedmen have gathered the shreds of crape and muslin swept from the doors of the rich, and sewed them together and stretched them across the doors and windows of their own rude homes, to symbolize their humble but sincere sorrow.
God's Ways Unsearchable
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The surgeon sewed up the wound.
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If someone didn't want to bring their mending to us, there were two ladies Mrs. J. and Mrs. S. who ‘sewed for the public.’
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On the armhole seams, I sewed them as usual, setting in the sleeves to the garment, right sides together.
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Matt Del Fatti of Del Fatti Leather who I see as one of the finest leather craftsmen to ply the trade, cut and sewed a mahogany-colored holster with two magazine scabbards, custom fit to this Browning.
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I then continued to resume the folding of various frocks and dresses that were mainly sewed by myself.
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They're wearing girdles and also underneath the girdle is a little garter sewed under the girdle and that garter rubs the skin sometimes.
Nour Akkad: Mad Men's Janie Bryant Talks About Peggy's New Hair, Her Mod line, and Vintage Shopping (PHOTOS)
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If you have been diagnosed with this condition in one pregnancy and get pregnant again, you may have your cervix sewed closed with a procedure known as a cerclage.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
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I did have one minor hiccough where the tension decided to go do-lally for no particular reason (i.e. wasn't at a bobbin change, etc) but I did catch it before I'd sewed too much, and of course, when the tension goes odd, it's often easy to unpick as one of the threads is just lying there with big loops around it ...
One Hawaiian Down...
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The apparel and clothing of these natives of Luzon before the entrance of the Spaniards into the country were generally, for the men, certain short collarless garments of cangan, sewed together in the front, and with short sleeves, and reaching slightly below the waist; some were blue and others black, while the chiefs had some red ones, called chinanas.
History of the Philippine Islands
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She sewed patches on the elbows of jacket.
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He sewed up the tear with needle and thread.
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The surgeon sewed up the wound.
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Myhre resewed the loose pages, replaced the leather cover and put in two ribbon markers, allowing Eleanor to once again read passages from it every morning, refer to it during Bible study on Wednesdays and again at church on Sundays.
The Seattle Times
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She carefully sewed it to the cap.
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She bought another pair of silk stockings that she had hesitated at for weeks, and on Tuesday night sewed and drowsed wearily over
CHAPTER VII
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And sitting over her fancywork, into which, being what Richard called “safe as the grave,” she sewed more thoughts than most women: sitting thus, she would say to herself with a half smile and an incredulous shake of the head: “SO silly!”
Australia Felix
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I then continued to resume the folding of various frocks and dresses that were mainly sewed by myself.
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He didn't have a scooter, but he bought a mod parka and - as was de rigueur at the time - sewed a fox's tail onto it.
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She cares about the beautiful clothing as well as the dirndls and uniforms, and she cares about who designed them, who sewed them, who bought them, who wore them and why.
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Not until I had gone through the acts of a contortionist, and shown the round coin sewed in, did I succeed in getting the
The Carter and the Carpenter
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I sewed the armhole and neckline hems with a scant 1/4" seam; the bottom hem is about l/2".
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I cut the collar off a pink hopsack suit, shortened the sleeves, bought three huge buttons and sewed them on the jacket.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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I sewed patches on the knees of my jeans.
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He sewed me up again and told me if they worked loose again, that I shouldn't be concerned, because I was healing very quickly.
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This seam may be stitched on the machine on both edges, or oversewed to the goods, or the embroidery may be securely sewed on the plain part, after which the underlying cloth may be cut away.
Textiles and Clothing
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Her mother was a seamstress and her older sister sewed for Catalina.
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Babylon, ') than he, whosoever it was, that of late hath set forth, to the hurt of christian men, certain rhapsodies and shreds of the old forworn stories, almost forgotten -- had he not (Parker) now lately awakened them out of a dead sleep, and newly sewed them together in one book printed; whose glorious life promiseth not mountains of gold, as that silly heathen woman's (the aforesaid Queen) tomb, but beareth
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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My mother sewed most of my clothes as a child, so I have an affinity for patterns, cloth, thread and yarn.
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Using silk flowers, crystals, fine silks and antique lace, the women sewed garters, ring pillows, purses for the bridal party, headpieces and veils.
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He sewed his money into his belt.
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Lopez pretended to check the small cloth label sewed on the side of the purse.
Missing Justice
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The peasant carefully sewed money into his belt.
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My mum made our own clothes and sewed winter coats.
The Sun
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Women habitually baked bread, churned butter, brewed beer, sewed clothes, knitted stockings, spun yarn, and even sometimes milled flour and wove cloth.
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She sewed for him, with the neatest of stitches, white gaiters, and a "havelock" for his cap - these afterward abandoned by authority as too shining marks for riflemen - tears dropping now and then upon her handiwork, but never a thought of telling
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay
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Sounds likehe wants to have some arrangement all sewed up before the Eames Commission reports out.
Midwest Conservative Journal
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A lame question about making slips: The only time I've ever made myself a slip, I drew up a "pattern" hardly deserves the word, really for a half-slip and sewed it up out of cotton and lace.
Your (New) Slip Is Showing - A Dress A Day
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She always wore the ugly sweaters her mother sewed her.
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Britches Cries" is dedicated to the macaco monkey Britches, that in an American scientific research laboratory, to both days to be born, separated it of their mother and they sewed the eyelids to him to verify if the induced blindness produces cerebral injuries, putting under it simultaneously interminable sessions of ultrasounds emitted by great helmets tied to its small head by fabrics, all it almost greater than its own head.
Feminist blogs in english » 2008 » May
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It was of soft leather, and about eight inches wide, sewed lengthways and breadthways in small squares, in which, I presumed the diamonds were deposited.
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The right side of the skirt and the right side of the belt are placed against each other and each gather oversewed to the belt.
Textiles and Clothing
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By the way - please tell me they're the kind of jammies with the feet and the little ducky tail sewed onto the seat.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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In the peristyle was a large earthenware jar, which had been broken across the middle and the pieces then sewed carefully and laboriously together with wire.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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It soaked through both sides of the wrap, so do you think it would work if I unpicked the two pieces and resewed the wrap using an untreated piece of fabric for the outer - bearing in mind that it's stiff, so I wonder if pulling it right-side-out again after sewing might be difficult?
Towards Sustainability
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The court martial comes quickly and my newly sewed on stripes are ripped from my sleeve like the skin of a dead catfish.
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Due to a severe shortage of bed linen, we sewed them together and made sheets.
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Seeing myself as a part of the room, I sewed a tight sheath dress from electric turquoise fabric that had a hairy-fringed surface, and presented Sidney with a bow tie I had made from silver vinyl.
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Bella ordered a dimity blouse and a flowered skirt (dirndl was the fashion) and came often to sit with Essie while she diligently sewed.
What Happened to the Baby?
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And see here, Pa, "stooping to pick up a piece of cretonne from the rubbish on the floor –" this has been a paper holder – there's beads sewed on it around the flowers; and do you see yon little shelf?
The Second Chance
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Then, when the garment was dirty, it was unstitched, the cloth washed, boiled and starched and then it was all sewed up again!
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I’m wearing a heavy sweatshirt, my heaviest sweatshirt, the one Uncle Merlin sewed for my birthday a few years back, with the embroidered picture of Chatham Light on the back, and I can’t claim to be warm.
Boids
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More appeared just before his second birthday, so medics sewed a radioactive plaque on to an eye to zap tumours directly.
The Sun
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While males worked as tailors of men's clothing, female slaves and freedwomen sewed dresses and made lace in the households and dressmaking establishments of the period.
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Then, after dinner, when the lamps were lit, and Mrs. Ukridge petted Edwin and sewed, and Ukridge smoked cigars and incited the gramophone to murder "Mumbling Mose," I would steal away to my bedroom and write -- and write -- and _write_ -- and go on writing till my fingers were numb and my eyes refused to do their duty.
Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm
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She got her models together, did their hair, stole a necklace off a stylist, resewed seven of the dressed, chewed out a photographer, fired an assistant, and wrote a book about how to raise children, all within 15 minutes.
Gawker
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The peasant carefully sewed money into his belt.
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He sewed the patch onto the back of his trousers.
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He sewed up the tear with needle and thread.
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She sewed it on with needle and thread.
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She sewed the buttons on with cotton.
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I hated sewing, but merely joined in the gossip of the ladies as they sewed the cloth.
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My mother sewed a new cotton - padded jacket for me.
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So last night I reunpicked these messes and resewed the hexagons as they once were.
The Knitting Olympics
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She sewed the seam with small neat stitches.
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It was of soft leather, and about eight inches wide, sewed lengthways and breadthways in small squares, in which, I presumed the diamonds were deposited.
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She took foolscap paper, turned and folded it to form page spreads, and sewed it to hold the sheets together.
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She sewed a patch onto the knee of the trousers.
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He sewed up the tear with needle and thread.
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Enlisted grade inflation spiraled upward until 1945, by which time every infantry rifle company NCO had sewed on another chevron.
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When suture material ran short in the middle of one operation, one of the nurses ran for her ‘musette bag’ of personal hygiene items and found ‘a spool of white thread… and they sewed up his bladder with that.’
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She sewed a patch onto the knee of the trousers.
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She sewed the seam with small neat stitches.
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If any of you hear of a cloak found hereabouts, or any considerable part of one, blue without, lined with yellow, and trimmed with gold, please to note the name sewed on beneath the left shoulder, and send it according to the direction and your labor shall not be lost. '
Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
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Not until I had gone through the acts of a contortionist, and shown the round coin sewed in, did I succeed in getting the Carter's help.
THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER
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While he supervised the workers Olga painted, wrote letters, washed, sewed and gardened just like any other Danish farmwife.
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If, however, the wound is large, a pledget (_pecia_) of lint, long enough to extend from one end to the other and project a little, is placed in the wound, and over this the exterior portion of the wound is to be carefully sewed, and sprinkled daily with the _pulvis ruber_.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
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Japanese clothing is sewed with what we call a basting stitch, but it is as durable as it could be if sewed with the smallest of stitches.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
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She cut measured pieces of quality fabrics and then sewed them into futon cases, while he stuffed the cases with batts of cotton or wool.
In Distress
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Marvin about takin 'one o' the children and what a comfort it would be to the child to git out into the fresh air, and one mornin ''fore she left she took Jed down in the woods and talked to him, and the week after she left for home Marm Marvin sent me over to the station -- same place I fetched ye -- and out she got with a tag sewed on her jacket and her name on it, and a bundle o' clothes no bigger'n your head.
The Under Dog
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The faithful three spread aseptics and bandaged and sewed, and generally cheered the stream of callers from the Ninth and Twelfth
Young Hilda at the Wars
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The apparel and clothing of these natives of Luzon before the entrance of the Spaniards into the country were generally, for the men, certain short collarless garments of _cangan_, sewed together in the front, and with short sleeves, and reaching slightly below the waist; some were blue and others black, while the chiefs had some red ones, called _chinanas_.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the
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I was allowed to attend the ceremony, to which I wore a beautiful pair of bottle-green velvet short trousers which Mum sewed for me, a pair of fire-engine red patent leather buckled shoes, white socks, and a little white shirt with smocking and a frilly round collar, extremely smart.
Archive 2009-03-01
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I just didn't want to deal with it, so I stubbornly ignored it. of course, once I finally forced myself to sew it, it took less than an hour. the trick was to use double sided tape to "baste" it. then I pinned the hell out of it and sewed it with no fear. you can't have fear because the sewing machine can smell fear. it'll eat your fabric or make your zipper wonky at any sign of weakness. besides the zipper, I loved working on this sweater. the pattern was straight forward and the cable pattern kept my interest throughout.
Bitter purl