The Duchesse de Chaulieu, seated at an embroidery-frame, was showing Mademoiselle de Verneuil how to shade ❋ Unknown (2007)
Swiss-appointed — a young lady sat near one of three windows, working at an embroidery-frame; and an older lady sat with her face turned close to another white-tiled stove (though it was summer, and the stove was not lighted), cleaning gloves. ❋ Unknown (2007)
George Vendale took his seat by the embroidery-frame (having first taken the fair right hand that his entrance had checked), and glanced at the gold cross that dipped into the bodice, with something of the devotion of a pilgrim who had reached his shrine at last. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Marguerite blushed deeply, and turned away to her embroidery-frame in a corner by the window. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Yes, she would work at the embroidery-frame, and I would sit and look at her in the mirror, and be ready to do whatsoever she wanted — to help her on with her mantle or to hand her food. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Yesterday I inspected your empty room in detail, and inspected your embroidery-frame, with the work still hanging on it. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But she resolved not to trust her impressions, and sat down by the window at her embroidery-frame. ❋ Unknown (2003)
‘Tell me, Dmitri Nikolaitch,’ she began one day, sitting by the window at her embroidery-frame, ‘shall you be in Petersburg in the winter?’ ❋ Unknown (2003)
Lavretsky recognised the piano; even the embroidery-frame in the window was just the same, and in the same position, and it seemed with the same unfinished embroidery on it, as eight years ago. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Annemarie, letting her knitting sink to her lap, nodded in unison; and Elsa, her hands condemned to idleness, sat looking at the two of them across her embroidery-frame. ❋ Unknown (2003)
At the upper end stood an immense embroidery-frame, looking as if it might have served for Penelope's web, but in which was stretched an unfinished hammock of palm-thread, the senhora's work. ❋ Various (N/A)
Ere the good lady could collect herself to reply with the decorous deliberateness becoming her years and station, an embroidery-frame at her side was overturned, and there sprang eagerly forward a comely young damsel of the pure Saxon stock, with eyes like England's violets, -- clear, dewy, and wide-awake, -- cheeks and lips like its rose-bloom, and hair which held tangled in close, golden folds its fickle and flying sunshine. ❋ Various (N/A)
Isabel gently freed herself and laid the work-bag on her embroidery-frame. ❋ Unknown (1908)
As Wrayford leaned back in his corner, and looked at her across the bright, flower-filled drawing-room, he noted first of all -- for the hundredth time -- the flexible play of her hands above the embroidery-frame, the shadow of the dusky, wavy hair on her forehead, the tired droop of the lids over her somewhat full gray eyes. ❋ Unknown (1908)
Stilling set her embroidery-frame noiselessly on the low table at her side, and turned her head toward Wrayford. ❋ Unknown (1908)
It was that of finding herself as if impelled to look up from the embroidery-frame over which she was bending. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)
Perhaps Rita would come down soon, with her guitar or her embroidery-frame; and they would sing and chatter till the early dinner. ❋ Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (1896)
The small person whom Gantry and a few others were still calling the court of last resort was sitting up, and the tiny embroidery-frame on the table had evidently just been laid aside. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)