The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850] Reference
The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851] Reference
The Sewing-Machine has not injured the sempstress. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
She seemed, Kate thought, rather like a little sempstress. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
A pile of shaped pieces of linen told me that she was a sempstress. From Wordnik.com. [Gobseck] Reference
The sempstress looked up, her crossness temporarily relieved by interest. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Someone talked, though-a footman; perhaps the sempstress who sewed your gown. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Nan was a sempstress and did not I think have any connection to commercial baking. From Wordnik.com. [Sedgemoor Easter Cakes, Somerset] Reference
We see him raise his sempstress Dorcas, at the house of the tanner Simon at Joppa. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
St. Peter raised from the dead Dorcas, a sempstress, who made clothes for the “brethren.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
"No," replied the young sempstress, taking the pins out of her mouth furtively, seeing that Conny was looking at her. From Wordnik.com. [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference
The sempstress carried back the child up the steep staircase, laid her tenderly on her bed, and hurried away to her own attic. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
Poor parents offer their girls to Europeans for a loan of money, and they are admitted under the pseudonym of sempstress or housekeeper. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Till on one occasion, in a gamesome mood, I narrated to my family the secret history of a sempstress, who had just before quitted the room. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
All the summer the poor sempstress had been too busy during the daylight, to afford time even to cross the Square to study the strange paper on the Fountain. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
Take the sempstress, of whom so much has been said. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
Where the sempstress, in search of employment, declares. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
She's a sempstress -- a needlewoman, or something of the sort. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Archer and Other Tales] Reference
If I had my time again I would choose in preference any sempstress. From Wordnik.com. [A Chair on the Boulevard] Reference
Where the sempstress plies her sewing till her eyes are sore and red. From Wordnik.com. [The Man from Snowy River] Reference
For the sempstress when she takes one stitch may make nine unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
You own that you cannot do anything for the sempstress and the housemaid. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
Her dresses had all been made by the mantua-maker, and her fine sewing by the family sempstress. From Wordnik.com. [The Lights and Shadows of Real Life] Reference
"Name!" demanded several; "yourself, perhaps, Le Ber; you want a sempstress for your shirt-buttons.". From Wordnik.com. [The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West] Reference
The working sempstress was sincerely esteemed by some of the brightest masculine intellects in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Claire] Reference
To this encaged sempstress no one ever speaks unless it be to give a rare order for a mutton chop or pint of stout. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
She may be a governess, or a sempstress, or even within certain limits may enter the literary market and write books. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference
I am afraid she had no other female accomplishments than those by which the sempstress or embroideress earns her daily bread. From Wordnik.com. [Kenelm Chillingly — Complete] Reference
Here she comes, this heir-apparent of a sempstress, and a cobler! and yet, as she's adorned, she looks like any princess of the blood. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference
My father was an obscure person barely above a slave; he had in fact been one south of Xois and Thmuis; my mother a common sempstress. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03] Reference
But this was a little fat, weary-faced woman about fifty, who only did not look like a cook because she looked more like a sempstress. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
You think it unjust to limit the labour of the factory child to ten hours a day, because you cannot limit the labour of the sempstress. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference
Of course the sempstress flattered his taste; for his wife, poor soul! she soon had tact enough to discover, had no voice in the business. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches — Volume 04] Reference
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