fullness

• Where the sleeve calls for gathering the fullness should be distributed between the notches and the two portions of the sleeve should be secured at this point, before or after basting the upper or lower portions of each sleeve Illustration: FINISHING OF SEAMS Notched at Curves and Bound or Overcast Stitch the seams just outside the basting, then remove the line of basting along the seam and press. —  Textiles and Clothing
• She was seeing the earth and its fullness, and her heart beat fast Next day she went away for a long case, giving only one little sigh in the going, to the certainty that, when she came back, Johnnie Veasey would be off on another voyage to lands beyond the sea. —  Tiverton Tales
• On a brim of this width all of the fullness should be worked out. —  Make Your Own Hats
• The fullness is then gathered in and sewed to the headsize wire. —  Make Your Own Hats
• I think it no objection to Christians or to Christian churches that they do not at once embody and exemplify Christian truth and virtue in all their fullness, any more than I think it an objection to men of science and scientific associations that they do not know and set forth all the laws of the material universe. —  Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story

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