Anderson, in his bibliography of Scott, gives this as a supposititious work, but with the exception of the title it is genuine, for it is simply the piecing together of Scott's introductions to his novels.
He thought that with two or three exceptions the pieces in the book were genuine, and said: "I scarce know anything so easily discovered as the piecing and patching of an old ballad; the darns in a silk stocking are not more manifest.
The chief waste in winding is made when piecing the two ends together when it requires skill to perform the operation of knotting with the finger tips so as to employ less material.
One of the chief difficulties of the winding department is the correct piecing of the ends with a minimum of waste and this department has been largely left to young workers as their first job in entering the factory.
With inexperienced workers much weekly loss is caused not only by the waste incurred in piecing the ends but also because these knots are not properly secured or are ragged in appearance.
We cannot too often insist upon this fact, that the brief and insufficient historical sketch presented in this chapter is a piecing together often of mere indications as well as of detached statements.
What do you suppose I laid awake all night for, piecing things that I know together, if you're not going to pay attention?
Piecing together the fragments, as Johnny could not do, here is the interpretation.
And in piecing the thing together to the best of my own knowledge over a period of time like this and by using this to jog my recollection, this one here would have come to my attention after this one.
She began to be wonderfully busy these days, too, knitting socks and mittens, or piecing up quilts.
Maria dropped something about a quilt mother was piecing for her, and when I asked her what in the world she meant, she looked queer, and said she supposed I knew.
She talked in quaint, disjointed snatches, piecing the year's story together with a pathos almost heart-breaking in its very simplicity.
She lay a long while, piecing out the story, remembering what was back of it.
Thus the student of to-day, in piecing together an impression of bygone times, will inevitably find portions of his picture missing.
In place of it the process of "piecing on" may be employed--i.
Overhanding--pieces on nightgowns, piecing ruffles and lace on underwear.
But that would not result in bringing himself back to life, nor in piecing together again his own head, shattered to a thousand fragments; wherefore he deemed it sound policy to lie still as ordered.
There could be no mistake as to the truth of this; the locks were off, and Roden seemed to be piecing them together with his hand.
Unnoticed by any one else, Dolly showed Dotty the piecing inside, and putting her finger on her lip, shook her head as an admonition to be silent.
She sneaked those caps away to her room last night, and sat up till all hours piecing those pieces in.
By piecing on roving and leaving the end to run through double.
To secure more bed clothing, it was very much easier to engage in a little hunting than to go through the laborious processes ofpiecing and quilting.
There are also occasional large collections of quilts that are the work of one industrious maker who has spent the greater portion of her life piecing and quilting.
Much of their hard-won leisure was spent piecing quilts.
Patchwork--the art of piecing together fabrics of various kinds and colours or laying patches of one kind upon another, is a development of the primitive desire for adornment.
The piecing and patching provide the maker with a suitable field for the display of artistic ability, while the quilting calls for particular skill in handling the needle.
These depend upon the part played by space and time in all our perception, and the manner in which we employ space and time in piecing together our discontinuous perceptions.
But we are still, Kant would say, getting at our knowledge of what is beyond by piecing together what we and other people have perceived, and the whole is always much more than that.
Again and again he read through the paper, and with each perusal the piecing together of the puzzle became easier.
Now, even in my childhood, I was never good at piecingtogether puzzles.
All day long and into the night, they must walk up and down, between these two rows of spinning-frames, amid the whirling spindles, piecing the broken threads which were forever breaking.
He seemed to be piecing together the theory for which his father asked him—piecing it together so as to give it to us in a complete form.
Her brain worked actively; she was piecing things together.
Thus they stood, gazing, forging the past, piecing links together in a chain of recollection.
He's always having some bits sent to him, and I believe he passes whole hours piecing it together.
At various times my investigators have been piecing together little bits of information about that place.
If she can be got to talk she may prove an important link toward piecing together the solution of the mystery of Betty Blackwell.
He is the piecing commonly of some other trade, which is bawd to his tobacco, and that to his wife, which is the flame that follows this smoke.
What follows, from this point to the middle of the next section, is a good example of Kant's patchwork method of piecingtogether old manuscript in the composition of the Critique.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piecing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
