All this time her hands were busy at her lace-pillow. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It is not half so large as your lace-pillow, and lies easily and lightly in its place. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They were now both standing by the side of her couch, and she was working at her lace-pillow. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There was one of Gran sitting outside the cottage door, with her lace-pillow on her knee. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1997)
Here and there may be seen a happy-looking girl, seated at an open window, turning her spinning-wheel or working at her lace-pillow, whilst at intervals she indulges in the relaxation of a curious gaze at the passers-by in the street. ❋ Various (N/A)
At a doorway sits a young mother, surrounded by two or three children playing round the little table or wooden settle on which her lace-pillow rests. ❋ Various (N/A)
She spent those long, quiet days at her lace-pillow. ❋ Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels (1920)
When she was back at home, she began her little Sunday duties: the lace-pillow was put away that day and she did nothing but arrange things, put things in their places, gather a fresh nosegay for the porcelain vase before Our Lady's statue and see to her cooking. ❋ Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels (1920)
When at last the grid was fixed, he stayed talking a little: he spoke of her nice little life among all those white things; paid her a compliment on her pretty flowers and shining copper; and then came close to look at her lace-pillow. ❋ Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels (1920)
Next day, she was thinking again of the little man and his dark, haunted hole; and she sniffed the scent of her geraniums with a new pleasure and looked with more gladness at her trim little dwelling and her lace-pillow. ❋ Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels (1920)
She wore the corner of a Paisley shawl over her white cap, and carried a nosegay of flowers in place of her lace-pillow; but otherwise looked much as usual. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
His grandmother had lost her lace-pillow, and after searching for some time, he found it lying out in the square. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Here you will find an old woman with her lace-pillow and bobbins, spectacles on nose, and white bonnet with strings, engaged in working out some intricate lace pattern. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Nothing has altered very much; even the women, with their placid, ugly Flemish faces, sitting eternally in their doorways with the eternal lace-pillow, might be the same women. ❋ Ernest Christopher Dowson (1883)
In the middle of the fourth lesson she deliberately laid aside her lace-pillow and left the room, well knowing that her master would have her thrown out of the house at once, and ducked in the canal besides, if he ever heard of it. ❋ Unknown (1881)
That was what he had really said, and Ortensia had laughed sweetly and cruelly; and even Pina, busy with her lace-pillow, had smiled with evil satisfaction in her corner, for she was a clever woman, who had been educated above her present station, and she understood. ❋ Unknown (1881)
