I daresay thou foundest her threading pearls or embroidering some curious device with golden threads for this her captive knight.
There I saw four and twenty damsels, embroidering satin at a window.
Some of these ladies talk about embroidering for their friends, but, lo and behold!
The sewing and embroidering are confined exclusively to females.
But she thinks very few have enough embroidering to do to occupy all their time.
Master Garland came up to the house with Gilbert Gay, one rainy evening when Nicholas and Genevieve were playing nine-men's-morris in a corner and their mother was embroidering a girdle by the light of a bracket lamp.
The embroidering of red roses became popular at once, but soon there was a new trouble.
Encouraged by Susan's softer expression, Uncle went on, embroidering his theme with pardonable exaggeration, setting forth prodigious statistics.
Prudence, in spite of her devotion to the embroidering of large S's on assorted pieces of linen, never forgot the twins for a moment.
But the months passed, and Fairy seemed content to stay quietly at home, embroidering as Prudence had done, laughing at the twins as they tripped gaily, riotously through college.
Cis scarcely saw her in bed, for she prayed long after the maiden had fallen asleep, and was up with the light and embroidering by the window.
I have already set about embroidering you handsome trappings for your horse, with quaint, southern devices, which I learnt under the tuition of the good sisters of the convent.
Here she and Jeannette had been deftly plying their fingers in embroidering most quaint devices upon the trappings of the horses of the knight and his esquire, and a couple of men-at-arms.
But Phil had insisted on taking it home with her in the Christmas holidays and embroidering tiny rosebuds all over the chiffon.
What peace it was to roam in the castle gardens, or to sit by the window of her little room embroidering strange devices, or looking out on the broad moorland where the larks and thrushes sang all day long!
Mary accepted them all gratefully and gladly, and passed some of her spare hours, which were many, in embroidering a cushion for the closet of her stepmother.
Embroidering on canvas, or tapestry work, opens a large field for taste and skill in execution.
Why, you should be preparing yourself a coat of mail, instead of embroidering a silken suit.
And its embroidering fingers too, for the roof from which many a shingle had fallen, was green with garlands of moss, wrought into the damp and mouldering wood with exquisite grace and skill.
She was clever in embroideringthe covers of books.
She seems to have excelled however in embroidering the backs of books.
And, before she had time to consider, Henrietta found herself gently pushed into a small sitting-room, where a middle-aged lady was embroidering at a frame by the light of a large copper lamp.
A little while after this grand preparations were made for the king's marriage, and all the tailors in the town were busy embroidering fine clothes.
When the old man had gone out about his business his bride passed her time in embroidering beautiful flowers on the bed quilt to make his heart happy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embroidering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
