sewing-machines

Then Scaife seemed to have penetrated to the back door of the house, pretending he was an agent for sewing-machines.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

If there were a devil inside, now was its time, for — he sniffed — thus did the sewing-machines of the bazar smell.

Kim 2003

Buttons manufactured in small-scale units must be sewn by hand, as differences in thickness may impede the distribution of buttons in automated sewing-machines.

1. Buttons 1988

In the midst of the uniform sound produced by some thirty sewing-machines, I suddenly heard one of the machines working with much more velocity than the others.

Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

Wallingsby had the three-hundred-odd Skilkan laborers at work; he had gathered up all the tarpaulin he could find, and had the two sewing-machines in the tentmaker's shop running on sandbags.

Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

'Three sewing-machines will cost so much, and four sewing-machines will cost so much, and five sewing-machines will cost so much.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

But if you insist on paying me back for my sewing-machines out of the overwhelming profits at the end of next year, then I'll take the money.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

It is interesting to note that the Indiana and Michigan Electric Company, which operates in South Bend, Ind. (plows, wagons, sewing-machines), has started a campaign to do just this thing.

Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School Edwin L. Miller

You can buy sewing-machines and agricultural machinery from America at Arras, and felt hats and orange marmalade

The Automobilist Abroad

Saintes is noted for many things: its antiquity, its religious history, its Roman remains, and the geniality of its toddling old dealer in sewing-machines (of American make, of course), who, as a

The Automobilist Abroad