Samplers and knitting, which had previously formed a notable branch of the curriculum, were banished to an hour when little Miss Huntingdon taught the girls, locked in her own department like Wykliffites in danger of the fires of Tower Hill.
Girls began to make samplers almost before they could read their letters, and wonderful were the birds and animals and scenes depicted in embroidery by mere children.
A tribe of female hands, but manly hearts, Forsake at home their pastry crust and tarts, To kneed the dirt, the samplers down they hurl, Their undulating silks they closely furl.
Ruth and Peace and Harmony and Mercy made their samplers as faithfully as though they were growing up under the shade of the apple trees of old England instead of among the blackened stumps of newly cut forests.
The collecting of samplers has become rather a fad in these days, and as they are almost exclusively of New England origin, it gives an opportunity of acquaintance with the little Puritan girl which is not without its charm.
As most of their samplers were signed with their names, the acquaintance becomes quite intimate, and one feels that these little Puritans were good as well as diligent.
As late as the twenties of the eighteenth century, infant schools still existed and samplers were wrought by infant fingers.
To the water-samplers are attached thermometers (b) in tubes arranged for the purpose.
That he might get on a more intimate basis with these samplers Gard went to work as a laborer on the docks, and there toiled for two months.
He was in a position to substantiate the testimony of Gard who should be able to make these samplers tell their stories in court.
This was the last opportunity and the special agent hoped that the story might be told to-night when the samplers were reckless over their liquor.
He noticed a peculiarity about the methods used by the samplers in inserting their tubes into the sacks.
At the end of the season half of the samplers were offered jobs with the company.
Soon the two faded away without being missed, but they took with them a complete case against the Government samplers of this port and against the Continental Refining Company which had been profiting through their shortcomings.
The individual who makes illicit money usually spends it lavishly and it should therefore be easy to determine if the samplers were being paid to be crooked.
But the important conclusion from the viewpoint of Billy Gard was that the Government samplers were doing their work in such a way as to favor the importers.
But I found some of grandmother's dear old samplers tucked away in the drawers, and I pinned them up around to take the edge off the other things.
The tablets in the samplers are flanked on either side by full length figures of Christ and Moses, or supported by the chubby winged cherubs of the period which are the common adornments of the Georgian gravestones.
Sampler Design: the Human Figure Whilst embroideries in imitation of tapestries deal almost entirely with the portrayal of the human figure, samplers of the same period, and that the best, for the most part avoid it.
Spanish samplersare generally large; they are sometimes square, sometimes long in shape.
The colours used in Spanish samplers are very striking, and their blending in the different borders is very happy and effective.
Swiss samplers show fine work, but a great lack of effect.
I think there must have been a fashion once, in Deephaven, of working these scarfs, and I should not be surprised to find that it was many years before the fashion of working samplers came about.
There were her compositions and exercise-books; some samplers and queer little keepsakes; withered flowers and some pebbles and other things of like value, with which there was probably some pleasant association.
The stitch used for the samplers was usually the cross-stitch (Fig.
Barbara Oakes has two samplers which she values very much because her great-grandmother and grandmother made them.
Repeatedly were they repulsed, and repeatedly did they return to the charge.
At this moment came up several men of Vaena, of the troop of the count de Cabra.
In the tumult his horse was shot down, and he became environed in the throng of foot-soldiers struggling forward to the ford and in peril from the lances of their pursuers.
Conscious that his rich array made him a conspicuous object, he retreated along the bank of the river, and endeavored to conceal himself in a thicket of willows and tamarisks.
The count despatched six scouts on horseback to reconnoitre, ordering them to return with all speed on discovering the enemy, and by no means to engage in skirmishing with stragglers.
He commanded that no man should hurl his lance at the enemy, but should keep it in his hands and strike as many blows with it as he could.
The count now ordered the troops to march in the direction of the enemy.
The latter, having gained the height proposed, charged upon them at the same moment with the battle-cry of "Santiago!
Others of Hurtado's townsmen coming up, a contest arose between the men of Lucena and Vaena as to who had a right to the prisoner.
In theSamplers they are grouped according to their construction, that seeming to us the most practical for purposes of description.
Our Samplersshow the use to which the stitches on them may be put.
This project has indicated the necessity for designing novel biological samplers for use in the stratosphere.
Such samplers will aid in determining various pollutants of the atmosphere.
But for the moment, it is a case thatsamplers have to deal with.
The worker of samplers and those advanced in the higher arts of needlecraft had also their little work necessaries.
The condition adds to the beauty, but not always to the value, for many of the older and less well-preserved samplers are now becoming scarce.
During the latter half of the eighteenth century samplers were mostly worked on canvas or sampler cloth, a material which was used almost as long as samplers were in fashion.
There are also miniature pincushions worked in silk like the old samplersand brocade pocket books, some of which were woven in France in the seventeenth century.
Some early tapestry maps are numbered among the educational curios in whichsamplers are so prominent.
Old samplers may well be regarded as educational, belonging to the schoolroom as well as to the workbox.
I was surprised to know that mothers are now making samplers for their sons," Jane followed.
And I am going to make samplers for--well, maybe for the cowboys of El Capitan!
In the older samplers little attention is paid to the representation of things in their real colors; a green horse may balance a blue tree.
There is no doubt that as a rule the long and narrow samplers are older than those more nearly square.
There were no samplers made--so far as is known--in 1636.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "samplers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
