If you cannot trim hats yourself, a milliner can easily imitate, or, if necessary, simplify the general outline of the trimming as it was, and a seamstress can easily cover dyed trimmings on dresses with crepe or dull silk.
A seamstress of medium ability must toil from dawn to darkness to finish from 6 to 8 shirts daily; her weekly wages amounts to from 4 to 5 marks.
She had brought some work with her, for she worked without ceasing by the side of the dead and dying, sometimes for herself, sometimes for the family which employed her as seamstress and paid her rather more in that capacity.
She was an old seamstress who came to my parents' house once a week, every Thursday, to mend the linen.
On opening the door of the linen-room, I saw the oldseamstress lying on the ground by the side of her chair, with her face to the ground and her arms stretched out, but still holding her needle in one hand and one of my shirts in the other.
In fact, the little penknife with which the seamstress had attempted his murder had pierced his coat, his waistcoat, and his shirt; but as to the flesh, it had been left intact.
The angry seamstress indignantly rejected all these offers, repeating her horrible, bloodthirsty oath each time an ambassador came to see her.
The pretty seamstress patiently submitted to this treatment of her admirer without evincing the slightest sign of resistance, nor even of avoidance of the blows.
He waited for Valentina for some time, but the room was full of ladies, and the brass orchestra had played two dances without the pretty seamstress making her appearance.
The rest of the family were in bed and Miss Stanhope and the seamstresshad gone to their own homes hours ago.
It is the discipline, not the fact, of work which is essential, and in this sense the rich and high-born may be as hard workers as the poor seamstress or the factory-girl.
No; I have a husband employed at the tile-works, and a daughter who goes out as a seamstress in the village.
For they think that a seamstress must crave For the work that is making her shroud.
So they hated the poor seamstress for double cause.
In the narrow street where the seamstress lived she could hear the music distinctly, for no wagons passed, and the voices of foot-passengers did not reach up so high as to her room.
Dora worked harder than ever on the big shirts, for she had learned to sew so well, that she had to help the seamstress in earnest now.
Then with a flash came the recollection of Bobby's mistress--the pale, unfortunate young seamstress she had so unconscionably neglected.
Esther's frequent eulogiums had secured the poor lonely narrow-chested seamstress this enormous concession and privilege.
The dressmakers were hard at work, the mother cutting and the daughter sewing, but, as progress could not be too rapid, I told the mother that she would oblige us if she could procure another seamstress who spoke French.
His sister and the other seamstress had dined apart.
There was a London seamstress whom he preferred, and she was willing, but it is safest to stick to Thrums.
Poor Hannah Worth, whose circumstances were much improved since she had been seamstress in general to Mrs. Middleton's large family, had strained every nerve to procure for Ishmael a genteel suit of clothes for this occasion.
Why, Ishmael, I have been looking in vain for a seamstress for the last three or four weeks.
And round the factory door the noisy throng Forgets to come as on the other days; Aside her task the weary seamstress lays, Now from the close and foul-aired workroom free.
There is constant din and bustle; And the weary shopman standeth Day to day in close confinement; And the pallid seamstress sitteth For a long and tedious twelve hours Stitching, while her life is ebbing In a rapid current from her.
She was a seamstress by occupation, and had to work fifteen hours a day to earn the little that was barely sufficient to keep body and soul together.
The seamstress intended to ask a dollar and a half, but after this depreciation she did not venture to name so high a figure.
Aramis therefore had written immediately to Marie Michon, the seamstress at Tours who had such fine acquaintances, to obtain from the queen authority for Mme.
The citizen made a fresh pause and continued, "I have a wife who is seamstress to the queen, monsieur, and who is not deficient in either virtue or beauty.
Reine-Garde, seamstress and servant at Aix in Provence.
No, Monsieur, I am only a mantua-maker--a poor seamstressin .
Penny and Mrs. Weems entered the cottage where the seamstress was running a dust mop over the floors.
The seamstress pointed to the postmark on the envelope.
Mr. Gepper is simply wonderful," the seamstress confided to Mrs. Weems.
The seamstress shook her head, and an ethereal light shone in her eyes.
There's only one explanation," declared theseamstress with conviction.
Mrs. Weems, the seamstressand her husband, all were gazing at her with deep reproach.
It wasn't rightly a letter," the seamstress returned.
The seamstress and her husband emphatically declared that they had given the medium no information regarding either the housekeeper or the deceased Cousin David.
Oh, Pa and I don't complain," the seamstress answered brightly.
Yet she hesitated to enter the house while the Hodges were away, even though she felt certain the seamstress would not mind.
Yet one felt at once welcome, for the seamstress and her husband were simple, friendly people.
The seamstress walked to the door with the callers.
Work the scroll near the border inseamstress feather stitch or outline stitch with Green, 781.
The scroll near the border can be done in either outline or seamstress feather stitch in Green, 781.
The so-called "seamstress feather stitch" should not be confounded with this.
The Queen's seamstress sat in the doorway watching the maid Ateki sewing.
I pushed the seamstress forward, saying, "Go there!
Mr Pancks, with a wandering eye towards the figure of the little seamstress on her knee picking threads and fraying of her work from the carpet.
That's the seamstress who was mentioned to me by a small tenant of mine?
And so on the next night, which was a Thursday, the little seamstress sat down by her window, resolved to settle the matter.
The little seamstress was scarcely thirty years old, but she was such an old-fashioned little body in so many of her looks and ways that I had almost spelled her "sempstress," after the fashion of our grandmothers.
This time the legend read:-- Perhaps you are afrade i will adress you i am not that kind The seamstress did not quite know whether to laugh or to cry.
Smith Now it is unlikely that in the whole round and range of conversational commonplaces there was one other greeting that could have induced the seamstress to continue the exchange of communications.
The answer came:-- have ben most Every thing farmed a Spel in Maine Smith As she read this, the seamstress heard the church clock strike nine.
It said only good nite, and after a moment's hesitation, the little seamstress took it in and gave it shelter.
Say a thing i mene it i have Sed i would not Adress you and i Will not What was the little seamstress to do?
The morning came, but somehow theseamstress did not care to complain to the janitor.
And all this time Mr. Smith kept his vow of silence unbroken, though the seamstress sometimes tempted him with little ejaculations and exclamations to which he might have responded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seamstress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
