Lustrous, array'd in bright broidery, saffron of hue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

It was a broidery freak'd with tissue of images olden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Fragments] Reference

Her filmy web of Coan weave with golden broidery gleams.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference

It was a broidery freak'd with tissue of images olden, 50.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference

An unimaginable tapestry bedight with incredible broidery, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metal Monster] Reference

The 'broidery of her tabard was carefully and intricately wrought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Year of the Unicorn]

        Lustrous, array'd in bright broidery, saffron of hue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems and Fragments] Reference

From the coronal a veil of gilt thread hung round neck and shoulders, over the stiff gold broidery of her gown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leper of Saint Giles]

Slave gals 'pantalettes warn't ruffled and tucked and trimmed up wid lace and' broidery lak Miss Polly's chilluns 'was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference

Over her wrapper clung the old shawl whose snowy web was sown with broidery of linnæa-bells, green vine and rosy blossom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference

“And natural it is,” said Tibb, “seeing that she is convent-bred, and can lay silk broidery, forby white-seam and shell-work.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

One may set 'broidery on silk so as to make one wish to pluck the stitched flowers and listen to the singing of the birds she has wrought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Year of the Unicorn]

Dost reckon I mean to work mine own broidery, trow?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century] Reference

With tapestry and broidery their balconies between.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds] Reference

Get thee to thy broidery, for there thou may'st excel. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Desire] Reference

I put on my richest gown, the blue one with the broidery of gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard] Reference

Amphillis stooped and gathered up the scattered broidery, glancing at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century] Reference

He covers his bristling broadcloths and his meagre silks with the golden broidery of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East] Reference

Common ideas of necessity form the groundwork for the broidery of our advanced thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson] Reference

'I am,' said the Irishman, 'an' by the same token the 'broidery is scrapin' my hide off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life's Handicap] Reference

"Namely, thou shalt not put me off with red silk to my broidery when I would have blue.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century] Reference

"You thought I took counsel of velvet, and solaced myself with broidery!" laughed Mr Holland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution] Reference

See, thy brave mantle of triple-pile and golden broidery will not save thee from the gavocciolo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference

The lady in "The Gallery of Pigeons" sits at her broidery frame and works tapestries for her walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Spangles of silver, borders of scarlet, violet fringes, bars of gold, cover it with fantastic broidery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Chopin] Reference

Matilda looked up from the broidery on which she was engaged, and beckoned to her the child thus praised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

Dunya; and I was told that it was she who wrought these gazelles and that this thou seest was of her broidery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II] Reference

Mother Gaillarde that I might see her once more, and say farewell; and all I got for it was "Mind your broidery, Sister!".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers] Reference

Ann, who was ever diligent, took less pleasure in idle dreaming; she would ever carry a book or some broidery in her hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

Withal, as if to wear the time, Birdalone betook her diligently to her needlework, and fell to the cunningest of broidery; so that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

In the piece at Florence the effect of the sun shining through a tree is thus produced by gold leaf under the broidery of tree-leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference

And in the drawing-room was the needlework of his mother, the precise beautiful broidery ... so like herself, minute, mathematical, not significant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Bloweth] Reference