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A plain, genteel dress is more admired, and obtains more credit, than lace and embroidery, in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.
She wore a dress of gay-colored embroidery, a bird of paradise in her bonnet, and upon her shoulders was a costly cashmere shawl.
Asked the Major breathlessly, though to an observer, even more than casual, he seemed to be engaged in most carefully scrutinizing the embroidery.
Their deeds are so terrific and sweeping as it is that the slightest embroidery or exaggeration would produce an effect to stagger humanity.
It is an oblong of material, hemmed when possible at one side with gold embroidery and edged with a sort of closed fringe.
The women fingered the velvet kilt, admiring its embroideries of nails, hammers, thorns, in fact all the attributes of the Passion.
His trumpeter too was mounted, and the velvet cloth on his trumpet bristled with beautiful embroidery in gold thread and jewels.
When this embroidery was finished (which it soon would be) she would be driven from the lectern in disorder and discomfiture.
They loved to be together, and while Godfrey studied his medical tomes, Beatrice's fingers would be busy with sewing or embroidery.
A plain, genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery, in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.
"Yes," said Mistress Margaret, intent on her embroidery, "the game of playing at kings and queens and courtiers and ruffs and high-stepping."
A gray flannel shirt, with some stitching and embroidery in front; and a blue silk scarf loosely tied below the rolling collar.
Many large embroideries were produced in the Indies, showing eastern floral patterns mingled with representations of Europeans, ships and coats of arms.
Their dress, or rather undress, consisted of a short skirt of dirty, greasy leather, covered with a heavy embroidery of bright-colored beads.
She laid her small embroidery hoop on the table, and straightened out the loose threads of silk, the doctor watching her impatiently.
She quickly flung her embroidery aside, pushed away the little table and got up; an expression of genuine pleasure overspread her face.
Lucy was a very neat, lady-like little creature, who used to wear very fine muslin gowns, ornamented with her own beautiful embroidery.
The bridal dress alone, a blaze of blue silk and lace and gold embroidery, costs between six hundred and a thousand francs.
The table where the party had dined was covered now by a piece of gaudy, pseudo-Moorish embroidery, and adorned with flowers.
More than one tiara became insecure, and more than one player groaned in her jewels, silks and embroideries, not to mention her corsets.
The indignant young beauty shook the dust from her embroidery, and twirled her white ribbons into their places as she spoke.
One might see crowds of people in tattered garments come up, and change clothes with others that were dressed with lace and embroidery.
Have the wrong side turned towards you while doing the embroidery, as all fastenings of the thread must be made on this side.
The people are celebrated for their gold and silver embroidery upon leather which is used in the manufacture of saddles and horse equipage.
The subjects of the paintings and embroideries on trappers in the sixteenth century were often humorous, religious, and sometimes even political in character.
Their garments are of home-grown hemp; and their artistic interests center largely around the decorative designs produced in dyeing, weaving, and embroidery.
Clouds hovered here and there, and the hangings, pendants, and embroideries of the sacred pavilions might be distinguished amid the thick vapors.
Usually there is no embroidery as such, the previously described alternating tufts of cotton yarn covering all, or nearly all, the seams.
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the influence of this school of embroidery upon the needlework practice of a growing country.
She is a woman of the early twenties, beautiful and gowned in a flowing kimono-like robe of green with embroideries of white and blue.
The coat was of white velvet, the waistcoat and breeches of white satin, and all richly laced with an embroidery of silver.
Her embroideries and her lacquer work are well known; her ivory carving and silver work have found a place in every collection.
We hear of embroidery for royal garments, of goldsmith's work for shields and breastplates, of stained ivory trappings for chariots and horses.
Calligraphy, painting, writing poems and essays, were popular pursuits, and many hours were spent at the embroidery frame or in making music.
Above this lace at the back, as she bent over her embroidery, some stray curling wisps of hair gleamed like gold in the light.
The glitter of golden and scarlet embroideries against the wall splintered the dimness with rays of light like sunshine through a prism.
Gold, silver, velvet, precious stones, rich armor, luxurious harness, fine embroidery, silken stuff, satin, and all the marvels of art in profusion.
The women show unusual dexterity with the needle, and their embroidery equals that of the natives of India and other Eastern lands.
Many other distinct kinds of work might be mentioned, such as needlework pictures, the story-telling embroideries that can be made so particularly attractive.
Having cut out your pattern in cartridge paper, lay it down, on the wrong side, upon a board thinly spread with embroidery paste.
The charm of shading in embroidery is not the roundness of form which you get, but the gradation of color which it gives.
The spectator will notice further the beautiful embroidery, and the jewelled brooches worn both by this angel and by the Madonna.
Again she laughed gaily as she dropped into the commodious chair and picked up the little square of linen with its half-completed embroidery.
We looked over their shoulders at their paintings of flowers, at their embroidery, at their arithmetic sums, their maps, and their English composition.
Men walk up and down laden with various goods and chattels, embroideries, or lengths of silk, shouting a price as they move along.
After we have captured this scamp I shall do so, and then I shall tell you the absolute truth together with his embroideries.
His dress is distinguished by the most studied simplicity; there is not a vestige of gold or embroidery on any part of it.
The girls, of course, have to give a good deal of time to sewing and embroidery, which are more necessary for them than foreign languages.
These, with the ceaseless dash of the rapids, are the web on which the night traces her more delicate embroideries of the unexpected.
His "waistcoats and his valet," she thought, catching sight of the embroideries and the pale, subdued, terrified air of the personal servant.
He was bareheaded and partially divested of his clothing, and the gold embroidery on his uniform was tarnished with dust and blood.
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Her mother, who was busily engaged with an intricate bit of embroidery, did not notice the added color in her daughter's face.
Her slight form was clothed with a loose crimson waist, or shirt, and a short skirt ornamented with embroidery and notched ribbons.
Ruth was going from one to the other, watching the bright embroidery threads take the shape of flowers under their skillful fingers.
The embroidery is of tasteful design, and may be useful as a contrast with many of the patterns for needlework at present in fashion.
I could cut it off right through all those little embroidery holes, then Grandma could sew them together again just as easy.
What was it, sure enough, but the lost dress cut in two, in a fearful zigzag manner, directly through the costly embroidery!
In music, in dancing, in orthography, in every variety of embroidery and needlework, she will be found to have realized her friends' fondest wishes.
Cows, goats, oxen, sheep, and men all came together, most of them more or less adorned with flowers, ribbons, bells, and embroidery.
These duties, performed with cheerful alacrity, gave a fresh charm to the music and embroidery with which she employed her leisure hours.
Yet in city and suburbs the eye is dazzled by the richness of the shops, especially of those dealing in silks and embroideries.
He was standing before the fire in the informal chamber beyond the dining room, watching his mother's vigorous hands deftly engaged in embroidery.
This pattern darning, however, is so pretty that it is often possible to make use of it in embroidery work for all kinds of purposes.
It is easy to conceive that English women would readily seize upon the idea supplied in tapestry and adapt its designs to that of embroidery.
These they presented to their guest, and the other inmates of the palace also heaped up embroideries, brocades and pearls by his side.
There is also much beautiful embroidery in France, but the palm for precedence is ably disputed by the Germans, especially those of Vienna.
Her mother, with the scarlet letter on her breast, glittering in its fantastic embroidery, had long been a familiar object to the townspeople.
The best works of Chinese embroidery are rarely seen in this country; but these are unsurpassed by the productions of any other people.
They were not arduous, and I was soon dressed, and vainly trying to interest myself in my embroidery till the bell should ring.
The frail hands, poised above the delicate embroidery, sank upon it, and remained still, while faint lines of interrogation puckered the placid forehead.
She began to earn money by embroidery, which she had always done exquisitely; she began, too, to enjoy the new sensation of earning.
She also busied herself anew with embroidery, contrived gifts for the Queen, and sent her a large consignment of French stuffs and silks.
Of the beauty and wide repute of English needlework, we shall have to speak when, a little further on, we reach the subject of embroidery.
I had learned nothing but a little French, and to run my fingers over the embroidery frame, or the keys of my harpsichord.
The little Princess, though, evinced much amiability, and on drawing near to Marie admired the wonderful delicacy of some embroidery she was finishing.
I had to do it at the house; they gave me, besides, some embroidery to complete, and nearly a week elapsed before I had finished everything.
The baroness suddenly dropped her embroidery, sprang to her feet, and surveyed the smiling emissary with her brows drawn into a frown.
Clouds of filmy muslin, embroidery, lace, and silk lie before her, and several of those already attired repose in a row on the sofa.
Sometimes, as a result of special rivalry among the young women, one village will affect gaudier embroidery and more of it than its neighbors.
It was a magnificent pale blue, ermine-padded garment, with a dragon of heavy gold embroidery extending from nape to hem down the loose back.
She held some embroidery in her listless fingers, but was principally occupied in gazing out to sea with a wistful and almost melancholy expression.
He had coached himself so carefully in the story that it was beginning to seem like truth to him, gathering little embellishments and embroideries.
How I wish, for the peace of the same husbands, that he would forbid coquetry, as well as lace, and gold or silver embroidery.
The daughter was sitting at her embroidery frame; her small dimpled little hand rose and fell slowly and gracefully over the canvas.
Very often the bed was placed in an alcove, and the heavy brocades and bullion embroideries were replaced by linen or cotton hangings.
A monogram carried out in embroidery can be a very pretty thing; there is scope in it for ingenuity both of design and of stitching.
Perhaps we should never have had the unique porcupine quill embroidery except for the close-grained skin foundation, which made it possible and permanent.
We have, in a former chapter, alluded to the custom of embroidery in imitation of feathers, and also for using real feathers for ornamental work.
She replaced it in the satchel and rubbed her hands over the embroidery, which represented a dog carrying a bird between his teeth.
Juliette would have liked to buy everything she saw, but she professed a preference for elaborate furniture, for loud-colored draperies and heavy embroidery.
As for her biceps, she had always to wear loose, flowing sleeves, for the strong arms broke through the embroidery of tight ones.
A bridal scarf of rich embroidery on a white ground, as pure as the bridal dress itself, is one of the next most costly importations.
Mistress Margaret went on serenely with her embroidery, which she had neglected during the last sentence or two; and there was silence.
Some damask linens look very well as backgrounds for embroidery; the pattern is sometimes a slightly raised diaper, which forms a pleasantly broken surface.
Some there are who excel in embroidery, crocheting, making ties and other fancy articles, but who have no aptitude for shaping and trimming hats.
They wore flowing robes, handsomely trimmed with embroidery, and their appearance was in all ways far superior to that of any other American women.
A darning and a satin stitch may be worked so that the embroidery has almost the same effect on both sides of the material.
He watched her nimble fingers on the delicate embroidery; he glanced at her quiet face and down-turned eyelids, wondering who she was thinking of.
In the second were taught the elements of grammar, the four rules of arithmetic, and needlework, consisting of marking and embroidery, with religious instruction.