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Sentence Examples
The needlewoman's workbasket holds further associations with home, hearth, mothering and goodly housewifery.
There were only a few woven Gallagher and Seaton labels, tangled in a snarled mass of thread and bias binding and rickrack braid in her workbasket.
Examples from Classical Literature
But she kept her nerve and her wits and looked at him and shut her mouth and put up her work in her workbasket.
His mother gave him her workbasket to rummage, hoping to keep him quiet till dinner was ready, and returned to her housekeeping.
Her workbasket was beside her, the bright knitting-needles in the unfinished sock.
Such a trunk should be kept locked, and a smaller supply, for current use, retained in a workbasket.
It is very important to neatness, comfort, and success in sewing, that a lady's workbasket should be properly fitted up.
Sheila, flanked by clothesbasket and workbasket, sat on the veranda mending his shirts.
Her workbasket was standing by her chair, piled high with mending that she had neglected for her pleasuring.
Mrs. Cary, with her workbasket on her arm, paused at the top of the steps and regarded the angry pair with well-bred surprise.
After tea and a go-to-bed romp with the little girls, I attacked the big workbasket, and had a quiet evening chatting with my new friend.
Marie pulled a dark purple silk necktie from her workbasket.
Open on her workbasket was a Spanish guide-book and a map attached to it.
As she said that she drew from her workbasket the three auburn-red curls.
If you would allow your nephew to look after Lady Stutfield's cloak, you might help me with my workbasket.
I bought the flowers from an old German woman who always had more window plants than anyone else, and spent an afternoon trimming a little workbasket.
And Meg whisked out her workbasket, for she had agreed with her mother that it was best, for her at least, not to drive too often with the young gentleman.
Seeing that he had chosen history she fetched her workbasket, drew up an arm-chair to the green-shaded student lamp, and uncovered a cushion she was embroidering for his sofa.
