needlecase

• “Also got some lovely goodies - notepad, ladybird needlecase, little shaped erasers (which I foresee being taken straight away by small people) and a great cross-stitch pattern which I am itching to start but won't until I finish at least two of my already started projects.”

  Booty!

• “Everybody knows this copper needlecase missing its lid, from the late 14th century London.”

  Archive 2009-07-01

• “I also found a needlecase with needles dating to Anglo-Saxon Kent.”

  Steel Needles, Take Two

• “My needlecase was nearly as precious to me as the small chest in which I carried herbs and medicines.”

  Dragonfly in Amber

• “He nodded abstractedly, went upstairs to the big, sunny sewing room, searched the family needlecase for a long stiff darning needle and extracted several rubber bands from the red cardboard box on the library table.”

  A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life

• “From Kitty there was a dainty sewing apron of muslin, with pretty blue bows on the pockets; from Amanda, a fancy-work bag, and from Debby a complicated needlecase.”

  Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party

• “She had also made a needlecase for Alice, not of so much pretension as the other one; this was green morocco lined with crimson satin; no leaves, but ribbon stitched in to hold papers of needles, and a place for a bodkin.”

  The Wide, Wide World

• “Besides the needlecase for Alice, she had snatched the time whenever she could get away from Ellen Chauncey to work at something for her.”

  The Wide, Wide World

• “The paths were paved with mother-of-pearl card counters, and the fountain was a silver and glass ash-tray, with a needlecase of filigree silver rising up from the middle of it; and the falling water was made quite nicely out of narrow bits of the silver paper off the chocolate Helen had given him at parting.”

  The Magic City

• “The shopman made the doll, the tea-set and the needlecase into one parcel and gave it to Elsie.”

  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

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