I was not a natural needlewoman but I did try hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to School] Reference

Queen Mary "a born needlewoman" -- The Hampton Court.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference

Mary Queen of Scots, on the contrary, was a born needlewoman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference

"Kista was the best needlewoman among us," I told him angrily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artichoke] Reference

And as a needlewoman, I was instinctively drawn to gold thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Elizabeth C. Bunce!] Reference

The explanation is that just as the modern needlewoman goes to a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference

The light is better there, and I am no such expert needlewoman as Emma.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Peter's Fair]

"And are you a good needlewoman and renovator, and willing to be useful?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference

She believed, in a general way, that a good needlewoman would never come to want.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

'She is such a good little needlewoman,' said Ma, proudly, and patted Gussy's head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Circus of Adventure]

Take pains; and the best needlewoman shall have a pretty bit of white satin for a doll's bonnet.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old-Fashioned Girl] Reference

In fact she was growing into a competent needlewoman, but not because she practiced it in the afternoons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ill Met By Moonlight]

Being a capable needlewoman she soon had them apparelled more to her liking, and the labour physicked pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

There was a small dressing-table in front of a long glass, and here the needlewoman sat, out of patience with.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Second Home] Reference

VIII., was a notable needlewoman, and spent much of her short, unhappy time as Queen of England in embroidery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference

Owing to the clumsiness of her wooden fingers, the woman of the south was a poor needlewoman, but was a fine dancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treasury of Eskimo Tales] Reference

Within the last twelve months I was invited to see the "works" of a wonderful needlewoman in a little Middlesex village.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference

Not a light gleamed, save, in some lofty casement, the fainting candle of the worn-out needlewoman or of the overtasked student.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

I was so particular in this, my first grand effort to secure the honors of a needlewoman, that quite two days were occupied in doing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

We would imagine that when the beginnings of the picture were so glorious the needlewoman would have made some endeavour to work up to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference

Those conditions should be a law to the needlewoman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference

I'll be able to use all you sent, m'lady, I'm such a good needlewoman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love of Brothers] Reference

Elise was a dainty little needlewoman, and overhanded rapidly and neatly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty's Summer Days] Reference

She was a very clever needlewoman, expert in the mysteries of dressmaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wilderness] Reference

I know quite as good a needlewoman, who'll be only too glad to come instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fraternity] Reference

The choice of stitch patterns of this kind is invariably left to the needlewoman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference

Kate is really a most dainty needlewoman and does all the fine sewing in our family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908] Reference

The footman accuses the cook, who accuses the needlewoman, who accuses the other two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories] Reference

"When a woman has a family of children, one ought to have in a needlewoman by the hour.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Caught in the Net] Reference

My lieutenant went to get what I wanted, and particularly a needlewoman to make me some shirts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Neither was I very much downcast at my failures in this field; I was not an ambitious needlewoman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promised Land] Reference

She was a good needlewoman, and had clung to the house of Dale through many adverse circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls of the Forest] Reference

To-day the needlewoman brought Dora's handkerchiefs with her monogram and the coronet, lovely; I want some like them for.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Young Girl's Diary] Reference

How the faces of the tailor and his needlewoman brightened instantly, as if a gleam of sunshine had penetrated the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories] Reference

Finally, to complete the list of her accomplishments, I must add that she was a remarkably neat and skilful needlewoman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville] Reference

Of course such pictures were the result of individual experiment on the part of some very able and ambitious needlewoman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of Embroidery in America] Reference

Mary, the housemaid, and the nurse, too, seemed to be curious about this old needlewoman, and were often coming in unexpectedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Hogarth's Will] Reference

She persisted in working, as industriously as if she had been a poor needlewoman, with serious reasons for being eager to get her money.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fallen Leaves] Reference