sewing-girl

• “Yet beyond: an iron stirrup and a slender spur, and the sewing-girl has but to set her foot there and escape the shapes that dog her.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873

• “The sewing-girl, like Hood's shirtmaker, scarcely fears the”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875

• “Still, every poor sewing-girl will consider that the making of her first shirt is an event in her career, a difficulty to be surmounted, -- and that, even when successfully accomplished, it is in reality only the beginning of a long career of toil.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865

• “Are you sure that John M. Gibbs is back of that sewing-girl ad?”

  The Clarion

• “This unforeseen cloud upon the horizon of peace, prosperity, and happiness rose into the ken of Dr. Surtaine the day after the appearance of the sewing-girl editorial.”

  The Clarion

• “At the table sat Miss Mellins, profusely spangled and bangled, her head sewing-girl, a pale young thing who had helped with Evelina's outfit,”

  Bunner Sisters

• “A fancied life of ease presents allurements to a hard-worked sewing-girl.”

  Plain Facts for Old and Young

• “Also I have bid the sewing-girl make a pack of some garments.”

  The Lady of Blossholme

• “I am not here to discuss mysteries that have no connection with the sewing-girl in whose cause I am interested.”

  A Strange Disappearance

• “The story of "Louise," in brief, is that of a sewing-girl who lives with her parents on Montmartre, up to which, night after night, blink and beckon the lights of the gay city.”

  Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time

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