The part here assigned to the woman indicates the firm hold which the blood-feud had gained on the imagination of the Norsemen.
Buyers of Souls The elder merchant continued gazing at her with a crafty smile and an eye ever on the alert for tokens of understanding.
She remembered vaguely the wild figures hemming her in, but nothing more.
Ross within the last four years; but when I first arrived here, I brought with me a couple of howitzers, from which one night, when these thieves were hemming me in on all sides, I discharged a shell right over their heads.
The windings of the Teviot are traceable for miles, the Liddesdale and Dumfriesshire heights hemming in the view on one side, and the blue Cheviots on the other.
Not only did the life instinct cling to them, to the warm human hands and faces hemming him in and protecting him from that darkness beyond with its shapes of terror.
She was sitting in the sun, her head bent over the muslin strings she was hemming for her nurse's bonnet.
Father took me into a parlor, where sat a handsome, fat woman, hemming towels.
They moved on to the extremity, and then he stood hemming her in against a marble table in the corner.
Various kinds of work have binding set on to them, in preference to hemming them, or working them in herring-bone stitch.
The hemming of all these should be extremely neat.
Sometimes bodies of artillery were cut off by globes getting beyond their lines in the darkness and hemming them in.
Suffice it to say that I broke through the seemingly insuperable barrier hemming in the atomic world and made myself known.
With the hemming in of Bazaine at Metz and the capture of MacMahon's army at Sedan the crisis of the war was passed, and the Germans practically the victors.
Upon which Gilbert hindered the hemming of the Captain's handkerchiefs by stooping down to kiss the little hands at work upon them.
After that there were broken exclamations, and the coughing and hemmingbegan again.
Then the coughing and hemming ceased; there was a sort of deep inspiration; the church seemed to hold its breath for a moment.
It danced on the glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sat together hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress.
These girls were Clover and Elsie Carr, and it was Clover's first evening dress for which they were hemming ruffles.
Hemming was busily employed in fixing a screen at the back of her chair.
Grover andHemming seemed to be hovering about Mrs. Gaunt all the time with little dishes specially prepared, and they did not withdraw finally until the cheese was on the table.
She could not answer, for Hemming returned at the moment.
After a few minutes of moody uncertainty, Gaunt joined in her attempt to keep up appearances; and it was not until Hemming and Grover had placed dessert upon the table and left the room that the inevitable silence fell.
Hemming have locked up pretty near all the silver; with so many workmen about you need eyes in the back of your head.
He had been playing about ten minutes, when Hemming and the coffee came in; and Virginia was able to sit up and help herself with composure.
Feeling that opposition was useless, Mrs. Mynors picked her dainty way along the hall, while Hemming paid off the fly-driver and lifted the trunks into the entrance, out of the rain.
I'll graciously allow you to drink your coffee first," she added, asHemming came in.
They talk of being home for Christmas," said Hemming mildly, gazing with apprehension at the driver, who showed signs of being about to unload the trunks.
It was not surprising to Hemming when he brought coffee to find it declined, and to be ordered to bring in the small spirit-kettle and the whisky decanter.
Before leaving the room, Hemming had handed her a dish of fine strawberries.
Here comes Hemming to say that our lunch is ready," he broke in.
Eliza laid in her work basket the embroidered cambric ruffle she was hemming and, throwing her white apron over her head, went swiftly to the house.
When the hemming is finished, the tacking stitches can be taken out of the silk.
We give directions for tacking and hemming on page 18.
You must use red cotton to sew on the cord, and take tiny hemming stitches that will not show too much.
This is a very good way of finishing any hem, where you do not want a row of hemming stitches showing on the right side.
Now you can oversew the ends of the hems together, leaving the little space between the running line and the hemming line open, so that you can thread your ribbon through.
If dolly’s frock is of plain material, instead of just hemming the hem, you might like to finish it with French knots along.
They found Mrs. Catherine in her ruddy inner room, hemmingfine cambric still.
We can get out the frills of our muslins and continue hemming them.
She was serviceable too in arranging household matters, hemming linen and sewing table-cloths; though of course in these matters she did not do a tenth of what Hetta did.
The widow, meditating many things in her heart, commenced the hemmingof a handkerchief.
The pupils will probably not be able to finish thehemming in this first lesson, so provision should be made for additional time.
Hemming towels of crash, sacking, or other material, for use in washing and drying dishes at home or in school.
If the hemmingand overhanding is not completed during the class hour, they may be assigned as home work.
Thus an opportunity will be furnished for the making of the cooking aprons and the hemming of the towels.
Meanwhile the French continued to develop their hemming in of Combles, nibbling their way forward, taking prisoners and guns, a slow but determined advance that the Germans could not restrain.
He took a turn about the room and glanced at his wife, who was hemming a napkin very rapidly, her hands trembling a little.
The door of the farm-house stood open, and in the sitting-room the girl saw Ann seated near a window hemming a sheet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hemming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
