sewing-cotton

The people had nearly all run out of sewing-cotton, so the supply just sent by friends has come in most usefully.

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow

And the bars of darkness were broken, as a woman breaks the sewing-cotton at the end of the seam.

Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 1897

It has nine whorls, marked by small white lines, which look like fine white threads of sewing-cotton; and just below them are marks which look like very fine and very small stitches of white cotton.

Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890

In a little shop, situated in a back street, I bought half a dozen reels of black sewing-cotton.

The Uninhabited House Mrs. J. H. Riddell 1869

She had to purchase some sewing-cotton, and some other little things, and when she had bought them, she handed her bundle to the woman behind the counter, and asked her if she would not be so good as to have that wrapped up with the other things.

Rudder Grange Frank Richard Stockton 1868

This donation came most seasonably, as we had been mentioning repeatedly the need of calico and print in our prayers, and the sewing-cotton and the pair of boots came at once into use.

The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller George M��ller 1851

The centre must be filled up with lacework, using fine sewing-cotton.

Beeton's Book of Needlework 1850

It is all very well for you conceited dwellers in the Old and New Worlds to laugh at us for making such a fuss about a projected hundred miles of railway -- you whose countries are made into dissected maps by the magic iron lines -- but for poor us, who have to drag every pound of sugar and reel of sewing-cotton over some sixty miles of vile road between this and Maritzburg, such a line, if it be ever finished, will be a boon and a blessing indeed.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various