embroidering

Example Sentences

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Furthermore, she took to her broidering again, and fell to doing a goodly pair of shoon for Atra, since she had worn those borrowed ones somewhat hardly. 

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William

“I think you should have lost your time in very deed, and your labour belike, if you spent them on broidering gowns and stitching on buttons, when you had enow aforetime.”

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by Rainey, W. (William)

Dame, it is seven crowns for the hood I wrought, and three more for a girdle was owing aforetime, and now four for kerchiefs broidering: it is fourteen crowns in all.

From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)

Rather ask, does not such a thought come over thine own broidering?

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson

I should have thought thy daughter might have put her fancies aside; for what harm can there be in broidering flowers?

From Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Holt, Emily Sarah