needle-work

Example Sentences

• "And by them he ſent to their maſter a Tent, wherein the hiſtory of the Bible was as richly as curiouſly depicted in needle-work; […]"
• "My Son Johnny, named ſo after his Uncle, was at the Grammar School, and a towardly Child. My daughter Betty (who is now well married, and has Children) was then at her Needle-Work."
• "[…]—these are, therefore, advertising all who incline to be taught any manner of needle-work, washing, clear-starching, and many other parts of education, fit for accomplishing a gentlewoman, that they can have access to enter to the said Miss Eleanora Grant’s school in a fortnight hence, where they will be educate as above, and genteelly used by her and her doctrix."
• "It moves my gall to hear a preacher deſcanting on dreſs and needle-work; […]"
• "Edmund watched the progress of her attention, and was amused and gratified by seeing how she gradually slackened in the needle-work, which, at the beginning[,] seemed to occupy her totally; […]"
• "You were at school, but I saw your needle-work, and your drawing; you need not be ashamed of either:⁠—that you need not."