needleworks

There were books and papers piled on tables in the main drawing room and needleworks in various stages of completion scattered on the settee.

The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010

There were books and papers piled on tables in the main drawing room and needleworks in various stages of completion scattered on the settee.

The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010

How cosy all the Briggs party seem in their dining-room: Briggs reading a Treatise on Dog-breaking by a lamp; Mamma and Grannie with their respective needleworks; the children clustering round a great book of prints — a great book of prints such as this before us, which, at this season, must make thousands of children happy by as many firesides!

John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character 2006

No need then of the expedient of pursuing your needleworks in her sight.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

She has engaged me to breakfast with her tomorrow morning; when she is to shew me her books, needleworks, and other curiosities.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Permit me, my dear Mamma, to pursue my needleworks in your presence, as one of your maidens; and you shall be witness, that it is not either wilfulness or prepossession that governs me.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

She excused herself to the women, on the score of her youth, and being used to draw for her needleworks, for having shown more fancy than would perhaps be thought suitable on so solemn an occasion.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

This was her skill in almost all sorts of fine needleworks; of which, however, I shall say the less, since possibly you will find it mentioned in some of the letters.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

The young gentlewoman assured me it was to both, and shewed me her needleworks, and penmanship; and the child was highly pleased with my commendations.

Pamela 2006

And in this he lost all, and I had the pious duty to support him by my needleworks.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty