sewin

• “I've peddled books an 'sewin'-machines, an' no end of a lot of traps ginerally.”

  Dialect Tales

• “I didn't know I'd got into the ladies 'sewin'-circle.”

  The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul

• “Me old mam made me learn th 'sewin'," Bazie continued.”

  Take A Thief

• “She'd never done a stitch o 'sewin' nor cooked a meal o 'victuals in her life, and I ricollect her mother sayin' she didn't know which she felt sorriest for, Wick or Virginia, and she wished to goodness there was a law to keep such folks from marryin '.”

  Aunt Jane of Kentucky

• “There's one more, but it's about as bad a piece o 'sewin' as Sarah Jane's, and that looks like it'd hardly hold together till the Fair's over.”

  Aunt Jane of Kentucky

• “There's some things I can't bear to have in my neighborhood, and your kind of sewin 'is one of' em.”

  The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights

• “He throws this off as casual as if he was tellin 'about sellin' sewin 'machines.”

  Shorty McCabe on the Job

• “Roantree was settin 'sewin', I ached all ovver, and my mouth were like a lime-kiln.”

  Life's Handicap

• “We fell in on the foc'sle, leavin 'a large open space by the capstan, where our sail-maker was sittin' sewin 'broken firebars into the foot of an old' ammick.”

  Traffics and Discoveries

• “She tried ter make a livin 'sewin', but Mis 'Polly wouldn' let de bes 'w'ite folks hire her.”

  The Marrow of Tradition

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