It was at one time the custom to decorate the sail, with a design of coloured cloth, cut out, as one cuts out a paper pattern, and stitched upon its face with sail twine.
Most of them were dressed in the dirty shirts and blood-stained drawers of the profession, but some there were who wore a scarlet cloak or a purple serape which had been stitched for a Spaniard on the Main.
The saddle itself should be of such sort and so stitched as to give the rider a firm seat, and yet not gall the horse's back.
It might be merely a stitched leather strap or made of a chain in part, which rattled; as {khrusokhalinon patagon psalion} (Aristoph.
By degrees the roll form was abandoned for the codex or book form, as being more convenient, the leaves being stitched into gatherings or quires; but for a long time both forms were used together.
One has a cross-stitched pattern of chenille, and in another the chenille was alternated with silk in the warp, and both chenille and silk were used in the woof.
It is nothing smaller than the Crocodile Book, which is in rather a dilapidated condition by this time, with divers of the leaves torn and stitched across, but which Peggotty exhibits to the children as a precious relic.
The body was of blue brocaded satin, with a collarette of gold and silver braid stitched upon yellow silk, which fell like a cape, and the sleeves, cut large and loose, were ornamented to the elbow with the same beautiful designs.
Her gloves were of black silk, fingerless mitts, the back stitched with gold wire in beautiful scrolls, and her umbrella was carried by two servants.
The driving-reins were separate, not stitched or buckled together, and were held in the two hands separately.
So he hastened to cut out a belt, and he stitched it, and put on it in large capitals "Seven at one blow!
As he had a compassionate heart, he took out needle and thread and stitched her together again.
For further security the nest is stitchedto the leaves in a few places; the depth of the nest is about 3 inches, and internal diameter all the way down about 1½.
I have often seen nests made between many leaves, and I have seen plenty with a dead leafstitched to a yet living one; but in these points my experience entirely coincides with that of the late Mr. A.
In the specimen before me two large leaves are stitched together at the edges, and between these rests the cup-shaped nest composed of grass-stalks and fine roots, as in P.
One as above described; the other, which is the commoner of the two, a regular Tailor-bird's nest stitched between two leaves but without any lining.
Layard describes one nest made of cocoanut-fibre entirely, with a dozen leaves of oleander drawn and stitched together.
I hate little towns and little spenders and mercerized stockings and cotton lisle next to my skin, and machine-stitched nightgowns.
That night she slept in the hall bedroom in the Eighth Avenue, machine-stitched nightgown.
Bedspread of blue denim, with stitched bands of yellow sateen at edge.
Curtains--Of blue denim, with stitched bands of sateen at edge-- hung straight.
She it was who stitched magenta hieroglyphics on a strip of perforated cardboard.
Poor little baby, I should have been very fond of it," was all she said, when she was well enough to fold and pack away the tiny garments at which she had stitched with such pleasure.
Like the enaguas, they usually consist of two pieces, side by side, stitched together with some bright color.
She sat and stitched them, far into the night, and stitched her sad little bodings in, one by one.
Slingsby was speedily stitched together again by his friend the tailor, and resumed his usual good-humour.
From this she took a manuscript, daintily written on gilt-edged vellum paper, and stitched a light blue riband.
I stitched it up and washed the wound; but the case was a hopeless one.
I washed the intestine, enlarged the wound, again shifted the intestine back into its place, and stitched the wound up.
So she sat and stitched with a heavy heart awaiting her husband's return.
All four pair of sleeves were also carefully stitched with a tight tension, so they could not be readily ripped out.
His trousers' legs had been neatly stitchedacross twice on the sewing machine.
The man who wants a rent in his glove stitchedwould be likely to regard her as much more so.
All these are stitched in with the flying needle; and who would be without these long, long thoughts?
These slips are tucked and beautifully stitched and done.
Close-fitting linen dresses, covered with some bituminous substance, to which was attached fine flax resembling hair, were stitched on their persons.
They stitched black cloth into garments and while they stitched they mumbled the doleful hymns of Sion.
The story is now cut out and stitched and in my collection of 'worth-while' stories, in a portfolio that holds only the choicest stories from many magazines.
It is stitched with coarse black thread and the stitches are drawn hard and firm, evidently pulled through by a strong hand.
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