When knitted, the stocking must be sewn up and a ribbon run through it to tie it round the ankle.
For the stocking use the fine needles and single wool.
I judge from the way he is stocking up Frontenac, that we are to use it as the base for a big campaign.
The wretched business of La Grange's treachery and the stocking of the King's galleys had probably alienated the Onondagas for all time.
Gavin arranged her pillows as she liked them, and when he next stole into the room in his stocking soles to look at her, he thought she was asleep.
Remembering that, though I was in my stocking soles, the ground was dry, I hastened to join the farmer, for I like to miss nothing.
Then, rising, he carefully set each piece of the water-set up above the stocking on the mantel.
Lily had always danced out several pairs of slippers at the Christmas dance, but she had never achieved herstocking feet in the first round until now, and she was in high glee over it.
If the merry old soul really came down the chimney at the Grange, he shewed great discernment in the gifts he bestowed, for each found in the stocking some article that had been ardently desired.
And, uncle, is not the custom of hanging up the stocking derived from Germany?
She possessed herself of the stocking and fished for its contents.
Norah looked at the bulging stocking on her bed, and broke into laughter.
Something in the way I dripped, or because I padded across the floor in one stocking foot, made him a trifle more human.
She had the tail of her pink velvet gown thrown up over her shoulders and she was in her stocking feet.
I don't mind saying that I had a horrid guilty feeling when I said it, like Delilah cutting Samson's hair, or the place where Blanche Bates took the card out of her stocking in The Girl of the Golden West.
The "stocking frame," or machine knitting, was invented in the time of Queen Elizabeth, but did not get into actual use until the next century.
Use for the spun thread was found in giving fuller employment to the old hand looms, in the stocking manufacture, and for export; but no corresponding improvement had taken place in weaving.
She knelt, folded two on her lap, and, resting Raoul's foot there, drew the stockinggently from the wound.
And now she found herself standing before the glass and holding her nightgown high enough to display a foot and ankle on which she had slipped an ash-coloured stocking and shoe.
And the little chipmunk was so disappointed that he ran home to tell his mother all about it, and she gave him one she had found when she was a little girl in the toe of her stocking one happy Christmas morning.
He takes up a mechanical locomotive and stuffs it into the stocking he holds.
Fountain resumes the work of filling the long stocking he had begun with; then he takes up a very short sock.
She rolled up her stout stocking into a ball, and stuck her needles through it, nodding at the three women.
The stocking had been torn on a nail, he volubly explained.
See how wrinkly they are," and he held up a dusty little shoe with a sadly demoralized stocking above it, rich in holes as well as wrinkles.
He may have, and a stocking full of gold, and the roc's egg, or anything else, for aught I know.
On the contrary, poor soul, he is found by Geoffrey either digging up his potatoes orstocking his turf for winter use.
In the Morning Chronicle, another Liberal sheet, the organ of the bourgeoisie par excellence, there were published some letters from a stockingweaver in Hinckley, describing the condition of his fellow-workers.
Nevertheless, Commissioner Power speaks of the pride of the stocking weavers that they are free, and had no factory bell to measure out the time for their eating, sleeping, and working.
In thisstocking weavers' district the lace industry also has its headquarters.
We shall do best if we deal next with those workers who receive their materials from these factories; and, first of all, with the stocking weavers of Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester.
Their position to- day is no better than in 1833, when the Factory Commission made the foregoing statements, the competition of the Saxon stocking weavers, who have scarcely anything to eat, takes care of that.
It must be a source of rejoicing for the patriotic German stocking weaver that his starvation wages force his English brother to starve too!
The hosiery manufacture of Nottingham and Derby also received one fresh impulse from the lower price of yarn, and a second one from an improvement of the stocking loom, by means of which two stockings could be woven at once.
Peggotty darned away at a stocking as long as she could see, and then sat with it drawn on her left hand like a glove, and her needle in her right, ready to take another stitch whenever there was a blaze.
I observed then, for the first time, that the boots he had on were a good deal the worse for wear, and that his stocking was just breaking out in one place, like a bud.
Right merrily will I come, Priscilla, if there be aught to see," continued she, throwing down the stocking which she was knitting for her father.
I remember my mother told me when she was thirteen she could knit a long cotton stocking in a day.
Two or three times she drew her empty darning-needle through the heel of the stocking she was mending.
She looked up at him over her spectacles from the stocking she was darning; the china egg gleamed through the frayed place.
The mother's hand dropped at the end of the yarn she had drawn through the stocking heel, and she stared at Jeff.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stocking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
