I knew then that Aggie Tuttle might just as well close down her Rebekkah-at-the-Well dive, and that no one was going to take any more chances on pincushions and tidies and knitted bed slippers.
I only make pincushions and penwipers, to use up my waste.
And most of these made the needles rusty, from being stuffed with damp pig-meal, when the pigs and the pincushions were both being fattened for Christmas.
There was no blinking the fact that "Mother" had been provided withpincushions to repletion.
You will have a nice quiet time for getting to work after dinner, and I will look out the old pincushions this morning.
For I didn't know about making the pincushions then--and I didn't know till this minute what bran was like.
That morning when the cupboard was left open in my room, I saw several old pincushions that you said you had meant to cover fresh.
Neville looked up suddenly from one of the now uncovered pincushions which he had been examining.
But mind, I'm not going to be mewed up sewing and bothering at pincushions all day, if it's beautiful, fine weather like this.
Miss Clotilda had given them two of the pincushions out of the cupboard, and, as Philippa had foreseen, when they came to take them carefully to pieces, they found that there would really be more work to do than they had expected.
Kathie,' she said, 'if you would but see about the pincushions without waiting for a wet day.
Through these the tiny flowers peep in two rows of thirty-five or forty bright purple or pink petals, recurved into the pretty cornucopia effect that we have seen so often among the clumps of Pincushionson our way across the desert.
Grizzy was so occupied in examining her pincushions and counting her buttons, that she never looked up till the carriage stopped in Milsom Street.
I only make pincushions and pen-wipers, to use up my waste.
And Aunt Olivia was warned to label all thepincushions in the house.
Felicity, having used up all the available cooking materials in the house, had to stop perforce; and she now determined to stuff two new pincushions she had been making for her room.
Jason thought this a judgment worthy of young men whose lady-loves give expression to their most sacred sentiments by gifts of pincushions and bookmarks.
Alice had a stall forpincushions and brush-and-comb bags, and other useless things that girls make with stuff and ribbons.
But were I one of those who fancy that pincushions are often made by the merciful decrees of an all-wise Providence, I should say that we were ordained to be false, in order to prevent our being straightforward, undisguised demons.
She does that," said Jack, enthusiastically, "and pincushionsand mats.
The sentimental outcast puffed his excellent cigar meditatively, now and again taking it out to remark, "Pincushions and mats!
He knew that to me all these people were so much lace, so many blotches of white complexion, so many pincushions of silk or lustrous satin stuck through with jewels.
There are also miniature pincushions worked in silk like the old samplers and brocade pocket books, some of which were woven in France in the seventeenth century.
Similar mottoes are found on the little pincushions formerly carried in the capacious pockets of women of olden time, sometimes wrought in needlework and at others in beads.
The favourite material and colour for the back of such pincushionswas yellow satin.
My pincushions are as much a part of the equipment of a desk as the writing things, and they aren't frilly, ugly things.
She was accustomed to be told all about their 'thinking,' and to have a share in all the wonderful plans that Ada invented and May followed; but neither of the sisters would explain why so many pocket pincushions were wanted all at once.
Well, you know the dear little pincushionswe made for Aunt Ellen's bazaar, and how she said they were sold directly?
They are as good as gold, those two, and the pincushions can mean no harm.
There were baskets she had woven, purses and bags she had knitted, pincushions and needle-books she had sewed as neatly as possible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pincushions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
