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  • In working on a frame, you bring your needle always up through the last-made satin-stitch in order to start the next.

    Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Mary Buckle 1877

  • In a frame, you can work the second row, from right to left, otherwise, you must turn the work round, and bring out your needle behind the last-made stitch.

    Encyclopedia of Needlework Th��r��se de Dillmont 1868

  • In order to prevent this being done with the last-made breach, it was determined to assault at once.

    At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War 1867

  • In this he showed his judgment and his knowledge of hunter-craft; for, had he grown impatient and taken a wider range to find the trail, he might have fallen upon his last-made tracks, and thus have brought himself into a regular maze.

    The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

  • Having so determined, and made their arrangements accordingly, the two last-made captives were assigned a cell, chosen with reference to its greater security than the other portions of their hold -- one sufficiently tenacious of its trust, it would seem, to answer well its purpose.

    Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838

  • In all this time, no word had been exchanged between the parties; but the necessity for farther caution being now over, they came to a pause, and the silence was broken as follows by our last-made acquaintance: --

    The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1835

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