Belle-bouche was busily at work upon a piece of embroidery when Jacques entered; and this embroidery was designed for a fire-screen.
She laid her spinning aside, or her embroidery if she was at that, or if she were baking a cake of fine wheaten bread mixed with honey she would leave the cake to bake itself and fly to Iollan.
Others who put a shoe on your horse or a piece of embroidery on your mantle; and others, again, who took stains off your sword or dyed your finger-nails or sold you a hound.
Russia shows eight hundred schools in the Liberal Art Department, and it is here that the beautiful pieces of embroidery made by the larger scholars for Mrs. Grover Cleveland are displayed.
And then there wuz a piece of embroidery by Queen Marie Antoinette.
Mabel was in the morning room, seated at the centre table where the flowers had been and where now was her embroidery basket.
There was almost an uproar among the children now, and Mary held up the cambric embroidery towards her mother entreatingly, that it might be put out of reach while the boys dragged her into a dance.
Here and there slender plants had sprung up through the ashes, and the omnipresent small-leaved creepers were beginning to throw their pale green embroidery over the blackened trunks.
Perhaps you covet a wreath of embroidery round it, gold leaves and scarlet flowers, with a swansdown collar?
They were of the finest cambric, silky as a hair, as fine as the one Barbara bought at Lynneborough and gave a guinea for; only hers had a wreath of embroidery around it.
She had thrown her fur coat open, and the breeze from the open window was playing greedily with the embroidery about her throat.
At ten o'clock the next morning the most beautiful piece of embroidery I have ever seen passed into our possession in return for the ridiculously inadequate sum of two thousand francs.
The young gentleman then proceeded to the ante-room, where he found a bevy of young girls, each seated demurely at her embroidery frame, under the eye of an elder lady.
You stay with your friend, Agnes; for I have got that rose in my embroidery to finish.
I think, sir, that a large collar and gold embroidery would go best with the costume.
There are scores of dead horses on the field; choose one without anyembroidery or insignia.
Afterwards, she settled down to wait again, working meanwhile night and day at her beautiful embroidery that John had designed for her.
I have my embroidery money too, and I shall be all right--though very, very miserable.
She really could do very fine embroidery and she took considerable pride in her work.
Belle had several articles to show, and even Brenda had persevered with her centrepiece until hardly more than a quarter of the embroidery remained unfinished.
He had purchased shawls and embroidery "to the tune of" a certain number of rupees duly set forth, and he had purchased jewellery to another tune.
Embroidery in wool is also much in use for the same purpose.
English wool, or what is often called embroidery wool, is much harsher than that of Germany; yet it is of a very superior kind, and much to be preferred for some kinds of work.
Embroidery should always be worked in a frame, as it cannot be done well on the hand, except in very small pieces.
The young lady who can forget her moral and domestic duties, in the fascinations of the embroidery frame, gives but little promise of excellence, in the more advanced stages of life.
Madam Shrimpton's sleeve has also a falling frill of embroideryand lace and a ruffle around the armsize.
Both New England dames have also broad collars, stiff and ugly, with uncurved horizontal lower edge, apparently trimmed with embroidery or cut-work.
As she spoke she took out of the box the palest blue cashmere blouse, most exquisitely trimmed with blue embroidery flecked with pink silk.
And see how it is made, with all these teeny tucks and the embroiderylet in between.
Not a spangle of that magnificent gold embroidery can be seen, it is all overshadowed by the ragged old cloak which Munnich so much despises!
It is covered with an embroideryof sculpture, in which every detail is worthy of the hand of a goldsmith.
It is a dense embroidery of sculpture, black with time, but as uninjured as if it had been kept under glass.
Carvings and embroiderythat represent the work of months are sold at such low prices as to make one marvel how anyone can afford to produce them even in this land of cheap living.
The shops are clean and bright and a specialty is made of gold and silver embroidery and imitation of the old Mohammedan inlay work in marble.
My Duke will lend you ten thousand francs; seven thousand to start an embroidery shop in Bijou's name, and three thousand for furnishing; and every three months you will find a cheque here for six hundred and fifty francs.
Just when Cousin Betty, the best hand in the house of Pons Brothers, where she was forewoman of the embroidery department, might have set up in business on her own account, the Empire collapsed.
Then the business was going to grief; what embroidery brought in went out across the billiard table.
Taking up the piece of embroidery from her lap, Virginia met her friend's tearful caress with a frigid and distant manner.
The embroidery is perfectly lovely, and will make the sweetest trimming.
Then, turning back to the fire, she took up the piece of embroidery and mechanically folded it before she laid it away.
She only laughed again, and bent over her embroidery frame, where white butterflies were being woven on the drawn threads of linen.
Little bits of dainty feather stitching and hand embroidery will add individual charm to these undergarments.
Little bits of hand embroidery or attractive light collar and cuff sets add much charm to this type of dress.
The lace or embroideryis not merely confined to the coats, jackets, and pantaloons, but extends to the sword belts, and even to the boots, which are universally worn by the military.
The latter is the same, but the embroidery is confined to the collar and cuffs of the coat, which is trimmed with a cord edging, P.
On Sundays she took a holiday both from embroidery and copying, and on Mondays and Thursdays he spent the evening at the Cordeliers' Club.
It will save her eyes and pay better than that embroidery of hers, which as you say barely keeps body and soul together.
My embroidery is still my 'cheval de bataille,' and I fear it would suffer if my eyes keep too late hours.
The streets were a horror to her, but she was obliged to take her embroidery to the woman who disposed of it, and on these hot days she craved for air.
I imagine that much fine embroiderycannot be done in the evenings, and it would be then that I should require her services.
There was Mrs. Rathburn in a wide-brimmed hat, plying her embroidery needle and looking, from afar, the picture of contentment.
He would have liked better to see her in the shade with an embroidery hoop.
