darning-needle

Madame Dor woke up with a loud snort, looked first over one shoulder and then over the other, peered down into her lap, and discovered neither stockings, worsted, nor darning-needle in it.

No Thoroughfare 2007

A darning-needle forced into his heart had ended his earthly woes.

The Financier 2004

In his experiments thus far, Mr. Eddy has discharged the copper wire leading from his collector into a wooden box containing a pasteboard wheel with darning-needle axle and tinfoil edges.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 Various

She acknowledged to herself that she was very weak, that it was hard to drag the darning-needle through that worn stocking, and, oh dear! the holes were so many and so big that week, and there were such quantities of other things to be done, clothes mended and made for the children, besides household matters to be seen to generally; why wasn't she strong?

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

The teacher should also have a large square of unbleached cotton or canvas, 18 by 18 inches, and a large darning-needle and coloured worsted thread, to use for demonstration purposes.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Ontario. Ministry of Education

Aunt Bethiah pares apples and slices them, and Elinor strings them up with a darning-needle.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

By taking a leaf and pressing it into a piece of clay, and marking it round with a darning-needle, you get the exact shape of the leaf, and by pulling off the leaf you can bend the clay impression into any form you like, and put it upon your clay plaque or vase, pressing it into the curve you wish it to take.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. Various

This is especially the case with a darning-needle, which has increased its circumference in places nearly one half, while in other places it is eaten away until only a mere filament of steel remains.

History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra

Where we were the grass was tall, reaching nearly to the shoulders of the men, very stiff, and each stock was pointed at the top, and hard and almost as sharp as a darning-needle.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

For perhaps three seconds a stream of the dimension of a darning-needle emerged, then with a sad gurgle the tap relapsed into a stolid inaction.

Uneasy Money 1928