But already Marguerite Audoux's defective eyesight was causing anxiety, and upsetting the regularity of her work, so that in the evenings she was often less fatigued than a sempstress generally is.
The working sempstress was sincerely esteemed by some of the brightest masculine intellects in Paris.
Florine, when she went to see the superior, had left the young sempstress in a passage supplied with benches, and forming a sort of ante-chamber on the first story.
As she pronounced these words, the sempstress raised her eyes anxiously, fearing that Mdlle.
Dagobert, starting up from the bench, and looking at Mother Bunch and his son with so savage an expression that Agricola and the sempstress drew back, with an air of surprise and uneasiness.
While the Bacchanal Queen and Sleepinbuff terminated so sadly the most joyous portion of their existence, the sempstress arrived at the door of the summer-house in the Rue de Babylone.
Seized with terror, the sempstress could not forbear exclaiming: "Good gracious, M.
Hearing voices in the pressroom, the sempstress hastened down the stairs, and found herself in a long passage, in the centre of which was a glass door, opening on that part of the garden reserved for the superior.
The sempstress took the scissors from Frances' work-basket, and presented them to the soldier.
At these revelations, Adrienne felt her affection and tender pity for the poor sempstress greatly increase.
Before continuing the recital of the scene between the sempstress and the patrician, a few retrospective words will be necessary.
She glanced in terror at the princess, and then imploringly at Adrienne, as though she entreated the latter to but an end to an interview of which the young sempstress foresaw the fatal consequences.
At this charming and sincere assimilation of herself to Miss Adrienne, the sempstress forgot almost everything she had suffered, so exquisitely sweet and consoling were her emotions.
The young sempstress was occupied in collecting the different articles that she was about to carry to the pawnbroker's.
The heart of the young sempstress beat violently; her face, usually very pale, was now partially flushed--so exciting was the emotion by which she was agitated.
Cardoville, her face bathed in tears, clasped the young sempstress in her arms; while Djalma knelt respectfully on the threshold he did not dare to pass.
The sempstress Leegart chanced to be passing by on her way home from the forest mill, wishing to see the spot where she once lost her way.
And while the gas-lights flicker and play The life of the sempstress ebbs away In the West End work-room yonder.
For while the gas-lights flickered in play The life of the sempstress ebbed away In the West End work-room yonder.
But the youngsempstress did not yet understand of what crime she was accused.
The sempstress belonged to the second category, and Horizon was soon successful, without great effort, in persuading her to go out on the street to traffic in herself.
The sempstress believed and became alarmed with that disinterested, womanly, almost holy alarm, in which, with every woman, there is so much of something maternal.
Horizon, at that time altogether a green youth, amorous and light-minded, dragged the sempstressafter him on his wanderings, full of adventures and unexpected things.
In some way, while going to Rostov- on-the-Don, he had contrived to make a very young sempstress fall in love with him.
The solitary mistress of this immaculate home is a spinster sempstressin the thirties.
Nevertheless, the train that the spinster-sempstress took was the last train to leave.
This change in the life of the little sempstress could not fail to produce some corresponding change at home.
The occupation of sempstress is crowded to overflowing in New York.
A sempstress in New York can seldom earn more than seventy-five cents a day--fifty is the more usual sum.
A common fast sempstress can make two of these shirts per day.
The habits of the sempstress are indicated by the neck suddenly bending forward, and the arms being, even in walking, considerably bent forward, or folded more or less upward from the elbows.
A right neat and fast sempstress can earn $6 a week: it is piecework.
They have but few customers until about 11 o'clock, and he expected her to accomplish more sewing than a sempstress who gives all her time to it.
He left his kingdom to his other son Perseus, who was said not to be legitimate, but to be the son of a sempstress named Gnathaena.
It seems that Caius, when a boy, did have an intrigue with the mother of Nymphidius, who was a good looking woman, the daughter of a hired sempstress and of one Callisto, a freed man of the emperor.
The sempstress carried back the child up the steep staircase, laid her tenderly on her bed, and hurried away to her own attic.
All the summer the poor sempstresshad been too busy during the daylight, to afford time even to cross the Square to study the strange paper on the Fountain.
The sempstress did not listen to their taunts, for a song of joy was welling up in her heart--a song so sweet and true, it might have been the echo of that sung by the angels.
The hour was late to enter upon a search for new lodgings without arousing suspicion, and this determined me to try the sempstress indicated by Lady Jane.
Hughie, do you find out some new place at once; I marked a little sempstresswho has a shop in Wych Street only the other day, and I would apply there if you know of no other.
One Mistress Holland, the Great sempstresson the Exchange.
The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
The sempstress had done nothing to the gown; yet raves and storms my mistress at her for having botched it in the making and mending; and orders her straight to make another one, which home the sempstress brings on Tuesday last.
She wished, she said, that the slattern sempstress had not touched the gown, for nought had she done but botched it.
The matron and sempstress have no access to the drying room without passing round the whole buildings, which in bad weather would be more convenient by having an entrance through the tool-house with a door at the end.
The sempstress who is now with the matron, and the clerk of the small beer, who is accommodated in communication with the French Officers in No.
Thomas Hood wrote his Song of the Shirt, that lyric of the poor sempstress which soon spread all over the Continent.
The young sempstress is in mourning for her sister, but her countenance is expressive of a mild, calm sorrow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sempstress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
