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  • A sewing table, and a sewing-basket, spilling over with sheer linen in the

    A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL 2010

  • She sat by the fire, sewing-basket at hand, head bent over her work.

    Places You Haunt stringmonkey 2009

  • She sat by the fire, sewing-basket at hand, head bent over her work.

    Thor's Day lynxreign 2009

  • "I'm not afraid," she answered, with a smile, slipping down herself into a chair, beside which, on the floor, stood a sewing-basket from which, Daylight noted, some white fluffy thing of lace and muslin overflowed.

    Chapter XVIII 2010

  • Evylyn flew to her sewing-basket, rummaged until she found a torn handkerchief, and hurried downstairs.

    Flappers and Philosophers 2003

  • We cannot follow her in detail from the point where she abandons the domestic sewing-basket to reappear smoking black cigars in the

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

  • Then with a saw of the most curious design he put its point into the first hole and began sawing through the skull as though he were making a lady's fretwork sewing-basket.

    The Heart Of A Dog Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 1968

  • The woman felt the flame in her face and turned quickly on pretense of searching for something in her sewing-basket.

    Polly and the Princess Emma C. Dowd

  • Do not keep your sewing things there -- a big sewing-basket will add to the homelike quality of your living-room.

    The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe

  • She rose, folded her work and laid it in her plaited rush sewing-basket.

    Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers

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