With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags Plying her needle and thread,- Stitch! stitch! Stitch!. From LearnThat.org. [Thomas Hood (1798-1845), from The Song of the Shirt.]
At the end of the needle is a small patch of radioactive material. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfram Blog : A Thousand Points of Light] Reference
Pelosi believes passing a camel through the eye of a needle is an optomistic statement. history repeats. From Wordnik.com. [Two key House Dems dispute Pelosi's health care assessment] Reference
I am always suspicious the compass needle is stuck. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Lost. I sure feared this when I first started hunting. It can be a terrifying thing even to an older person.] Reference
Get a clean hypodermic needle from a diebetic friend. From Wordnik.com. [what is your favorite live bait for trout (i.e. waxworms, butterworms, nightcrawlers)?] Reference
A needle is then advanced into the fluid to remove it. From Wordnik.com. [Fluid Aspiration and Drainage (Parcentesis/Thoracentesis)] Reference
The needle is just a very handy way to get the ribbon through!. From Wordnik.com. [Make your own Orange Pomander Balls | Baking Bites] Reference
But threading that needle is so rare it's cruel to even bring it up. From Wordnik.com. [Your Emergency Fund Or Your Debt? | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
Another tip: you can see in the video that my needle is kind of dull. From Wordnik.com. [EconomyBites: The At Home Barbecue Brisket] Reference
The needle is bent so that it's flat against the skin when it's inserted. From Wordnik.com. [Pediatric surgery: Central Line/Subcutaneous Port] Reference
He's been missing in an area that they refer to as a needle in a haystack in Nevada. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2007] Reference
My husband almost fainted because the needle is gigantic, but it did not hurt at all. From Wordnik.com. [No Matter What | Her Bad Mother] Reference
The first few times a needle is used in the port, your child will feel some discomfort. From Wordnik.com. [Pediatric surgery: Central Line/Subcutaneous Port] Reference
That makes clear what the needle is doing, i.e. separating the petals where they touch. From Wordnik.com. [The real difference between “between” and “among” « Motivated Grammar] Reference
How did you cast on your Oregon Shawl so that the circular needle is also at the bottom?. From Wordnik.com. [Jasper goes to the beach] Reference
Alongside these is actually a needle, an insulin needle, seen under the microscope magnified. From Wordnik.com. [Islet Transplant - Towards a Cure for Diabetes] Reference
For the man in the street I suppose the compass needle is the most familiar magnetic instrument. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physics 1952 - Presentation Speech] Reference
A needle is inserted through an endoscope to bring hardening agents to the place that is bleeding. From Wordnik.com. [Biliary Atresia Glossary] Reference
For this procedure, a special needle is placed into the lower back and into the spinal canal around the spinal cord. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Tumor - Diagnosis and Treatment] Reference
A diagnostic test in which a fine needle is passed through the mother's uterus to collect a small sample of muscle cells. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
A ultrasound-guided test in which a fine needle is passed through the mother's uterus to collect a small sample of fetal skin. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
Once the needle is in the correct position, fluid will be removed and sent to the laboratory and/or medicine will be injected. From Wordnik.com. [Lumbar Puncture] Reference
A needle is inserted into the mother's abdomen and a small amount of amniotic fluid (containing amniotic cells) is removed for testing. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
Withdrawing a small sample of blood from the fetus by inserting a long, thin needle through the mother's uterus into a fetal blood vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
The factories use a so-called needle-punch method. From Wordnik.com. [Recession Puts a Kink in Operation] Reference
Best place to hide a needle is a sewing-box, not a haystack. From Wordnik.com. [Conferences are Murder]
My dear Hilliard, the camel in the eye of a needle is a joke to it. From Wordnik.com. [With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman] Reference
We were taught that the needle was to be the staff of our future lives. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
SIMMONS: But today, the technology allows us to do what's called a needle core biopsy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2005] Reference
I shared a tattoo needle, which is you know -- you don't do that with your best friend. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2005] Reference
One of the label families that gets my trust before I even drop the needle is the Secretly. From Wordnik.com. [Each Note Secure] Reference
On the front of the needle is a groove for the thread to ride in while the needle goes down. From Wordnik.com. [Article Source] Reference
Because of a Musicians 'Union rule there was a limit on so-called needle time - playing of records. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
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