needle-work

I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment.

Sole Music 2010

It was in the long June evenings, in the year 1588; Mrs. Leigh sat in the open window, busy at her needle-work; Ayacanora sat opposite to her, on the seat of the bay, trying diligently to read

Westward Ho! 2007

It is true that my three sisters gain their subsistence by needle-work and embroidery; the reason of which was, that my grandmother kept all her property for me.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Creemsvort, that young person, who has just entered, wishes to have the advantage of taking lessons with you in English; she is not a pupil of the house; she is, indeed, in one sense, a teacher, for she gives instruction in lace-mending, and in little varieties of ornamental needle-work.

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

I bequeath also to the same dear friend my best diamond ring, which, with other jewels, is in the private drawer of my escritoire: as also all my finished and framed pieces of needle-work; the flower-piece excepted, which I have already bequeathed to my cousin Morden.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

In those which are well furnished, you see pier-glasses and marble slabs; but the chairs are either paultry things, made with straw bottoms, which cost about a shilling a-piece, or old-fashioned, high-backed seats of needle-work, stuffed, very clumsy and incommodious.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

A short blue jacket of the finest Flemish cloth, and set (not too thickly) with embossed silver buttons, left properly open the strong brown neck, while a shirt of pale blue silk, with a turned-down collar of fine needle-work, fitted, without a wrinkle or a pucker, the broad and amply rounded chest.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

It was very late, but there was a girl up at needle-work in the house, and she helped me to rouse Mrs. Clements.

The Woman in White 2003

This had gone on for nearly a twelve - month, to my infinite annoyance, when one day as I was sitting at some needle-work with my companion Emily, as was my habit, in the parlour, the door opened, and my cousin Edward entered the room.

The Purcell Papers 2003

The Countess listened with curious gaze, her idle hands holding the interrupted needle-work on her knee.

Strong as Death 2003