Broidering

Word BROIDERING
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During this time Blanche was alone in the grounds, where the women work at their minor occupations, such as broidering and stitching, and often remained in the rooms looking after the washing, putting the clothes tidy, or running about at will. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

Furthermore, she took to her broidering again, and fell to doing ❋ Unknown (2007)

Even so did Birdalone, and shaped the skin to her feet; but as she was sewing them a fancy came into her head; for she had just come across some threads of silk of divers colours; so she took them and her shoon and her needle up into the wood, and there sat down happily under a great spreading oak which much she haunted, and fell to broidering the kindly deer-skin. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She was in an inner chamber of Hector's house, weaving a great web of cloth and broidering it with flowers, and she had ordered her handmaidens to heat water for the bath, so that Hector might refresh himself when he came in from the fight. ❋ Padraic Colum (1926)

She was in an inner chamber of Hector’s house, weaving a great web of cloth and broidering it with flowers, and she had ordered her handmaidens to heat water for the bath, so that Hector might refresh himself when he came in from the fight. ❋ Unknown (1918)

People tell us now that chivalry is dead, and women have killed it, bold women who instead of staying at home, broidering pearls on a red velvet sleeve, have gone out to work – have gone to college side by side with men and have been so unwomanly sometimes as to take the prizes away from men. ❋ Unknown (1915)

She and Li-ti were broidering in the western room, where they could get the last rays of the sun. ❋ Elizabeth Cooper (1911)

And this conviction, permeating and penetrating his whole literature and broidering itself with an Oriental exuberance of legendary fantasy, poetic or puerile, takes on in places an intimacy, sometimes touching in its tender mysticism, sometimes almost grotesque in its crude reminder to God that after all His own glory and reputation are bound up with His people's, and that He must not go too far in His chastisements lest the heathen mock. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)

"Not far off it," murmured Delaine, as he looked out on the vast field of wheat they were passing -- a field two miles long, flat and green and bare as a billiard-table -- and remembered the chestnuts and the looping vines, the patches of silky corn and spiky maize, and all the interlacing richness and broidering of the Italian plain. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

Here we have ballads like those that Coleridge and Keats conceived on occasion, full of the beauty that lends itself so kindly to painted-glass decoration; clustered spear-shafts, crested helms and curling banners, and everywhere lily hands combing yellow hair or broidering silken standards. ❋ Conrad Hjalmar Nordby (1883)

But Hector's wife knew not as yet, for no true messenger had come to tell her how her husband abode without the gates, but in an inner chamber of the lofty house she was weaving a double purple web, and broidering therein manifold flowers. ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1882)

So soon as a baby girl learns something in the way of woman 's work -- sewing, or weaving, or knitting, or broidering, she brings her first successful effort to the temple as an offering to the gentle divinity, 'whose eyes are beautiful,' she 'who looketh down above the sound of prayer.' ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

Not only the history, but the poetry and song of all periods are starred with real and ideal embroideries -- noble and beautiful ladies, whose chief occupations seem to have been the medicining of wounds received in their honor or defense, or the broidering of scarfs and sleeves with which to bind the helmets of their knights as they went forth to tourney or to battle. ❋ Candace Wheeler (1875)

The next day was like unto this; nought betid, and she wore the hours whiles going up to the tower-top and looking over the lake, whiles broidering amidst her maids, whiles learning her clerk's work with ❋ William Morris (1865)

Furthermore, she took to her broidering again, and fell to doing a goodly pair of shoon for Atra, since she had worn those borrowed ones somewhat hardly. ❋ William Morris (1865)

_Lettice_ sewing, nor _Milisent_ broidering, with no intermission, from the morning to the night. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

"I think you should have lost your time in very deed, and your labour belike, if you spent them on broidering gowns and stitching on buttons, when you had enow aforetime." ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

Foljambe buy his wife a new quirle, and his daughter-in-law a new gown, every time they cry for it, he shall be at the end of his purse ere my cushion yonder be finished broidering. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

Queen was a-broidering a certain work whereon Dame Elizabeth wrought with her: and for once in my life I thanked the said hallows [saints] for Dame Elizabeth's laziness. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

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