work-baskets

It is a place wonderfully populous in children; English children, with governesses reading novels as they walk down the shady lanes of trees, or nursemaids interchanging gossip on the seats; French children with their smiling bonnes in snow-white caps, and themselves — if little boys — in straw head-gear like bee-hives, work-baskets and church hassocks.

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But if work-baskets were gifted with powers of speech, they could tell stories more true and tender than any we read.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

I discerned to-day that Jennie had surreptitiously appropriated one of the drawers of my study-table to knitting-needles and worsted; and wicker work-baskets and stands of various heights and sizes seem to be planted here and there for permanence among the bookcases.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

It should not be littered up with personal things -- magazines, books and work-baskets and objects that belong in the living-room -- but it welcomes flowers and _objets d'art_, collections of fans, or miniatures, or graceful mirrors, or old French prints, or enamels, or porcelains.

The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe

This is a habit of mind only, for the very women who say it keep their work-baskets supplied with everything necessary for work, not only the everyday white and black spools, nor would they hesitate to undertake a piece of embroidery which required quite unusual combinations of color or material, and to be obtained only with difficulty.

Choice Cookery Catherine Owen

Most of the passengers were _en route_ for a five weeks 'voyage to Australia, many of them were friends, and a general spirit of jollity prevailed, the decks presenting the appearance of a seaside veranda, with their tables, lounging-chairs, work-baskets, and toys.

Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

She had stood gazing in at the windows, and wishing for the dolls, and the dolls'-houses, and the boxes of lambs, and the work-baskets with silver thimbles in them; but there was no one to give her any of these fine things.

Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

Here they laid aside their hats, and taking their little work-baskets, descended to the great drawing-room, whose splendors considerably surprised the younger girls; the older ones were used to it.

Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Margaret E. Winslow

But now she was ushered up the majestic stair, and from the majestic upper hall abruptly into a wild little cluttered sewing-room, and thence into a wilder but more spacious bedroom, large curtains at the windows, large roses on the carpet, and over all objects in the room a clutter of miscellaneous articles, as if Ella's band-boxes, bureaus, and work-baskets habitually refused to contain themselves.

The Coast of Chance Esther Chamberlain

He had 'been a barber, and took to making light fancy baskets, pretty little ornamental work-baskets, and things of that kind.

The Training of Blind Soldiers in England 1919