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Example sentences for "sewing machine"

  • To make a slow moving, but powerful force produce a high speed or velocity, as in a sewing machine.

  • After many experiments by others the sewing machine was invented by Elias Howe and patented by him in 1846.

  • Shame, I say, on the man seen at a sewing machine, or with a needle in his hand!

  • Grinding is tiresome to the lower limbs, which are kept in motion, like a person operating on a sewing machine.

  • A woman told me of three girls occupying the room above her, that have a sewing machine.

  • Any ordinary article of leather can be stitched on a sewing machine in the home.

  • Sidenote: First sewing machine] Early in the year, Bartholemy Thimonnier, a French tailor, took out a patent for his invention of a sewing machine.

  • Sewing Machine) Defn: An attachment for making gathers in the cloth.

  • Machine twist, silken thread especially adapted for use in a sewing machine.

  • Specifically: (a) An attachment to a sewing machine, for turning under the edge of a piece of fabric, preparatory to stitching it down.

  • My nephew and I saw young Howe in Boston four years ago with his sewing machine.

  • Well, it seems there's a young man in Boston who has a good deal of ingenuity, and he actually has a sewing machine on exhibition at a tailor's there.

  • I want to buy a sewing machine and I want to help thee.

  • A; b6] thread a needle or sewing machine.

  • Ang makina kinahanglánun kaáyu sa sastri, A sewing machine is a necessity to a dressmaker.

  • A; a] use, make into a sewing machine cover.

  • Oh, yes it can," said the first, "I can make a sewing machine myself.

  • He spent vast sums, however, in defending his patent rights, and many others of the "sewing machine kings" were wealthier than he.

  • This conversation impressed Howe with the idea of producing a sewing machine.

  • Peck presented the Rock County Agricultural Society with a sewing machine, to be given to the "boss combination girl" of Rock County.

  • As regards machinery used in the production of sewing machine needles, the chief novelty is the “grooving” machine, which is taking the place of the old stamping process.

  • However, the most important invention of the decade was Howe’s sewing machine in 1845.

  • The same year saw the first passenger elevator invented by Otis; the shoe-sewing machine invented by McKay, and Col.

  • Years later Madersperger again attempted to invent a sewing machine using a different stitch (see p.

  • Out of the corners of his eyes he caught a glimpse of an appalling beauty standing behind a sewing machine.

  • He saw no reason why immigrant paupers should not live on a crown a week while he taught them how to handle a press-iron or work a sewing machine.

  • He went again, and returned with a sewing machine, a pack of cards, and a bottle of trade scent; still another trip, and lo!

  • Nobody would dive after that, and a whole year might pass with the Kanakas still holding back unless there was a church assessment or a call for something special like a sewing machine or a new boat.

  • But on the cabin table he saw Madge's sewing machine and a half-made dress of cotton print.

  • Very different, but also of great value, was the service rendered by Elias Howe of sewing machine fame.

  • I'm a sewing machine agent," I lied, according to the advice of Mr. Lawson.

  • Only, instead of the stove, there is a sewing machine, a pressing iron, a drilling machine, and the devil laughs and laughs and shows his white teeth.


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