Seams
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Examples
- Considerable skill is required to do this, as all the joints and seams must be rolled down smooth and firm to ensure a solid boot or shoe. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His coat, that used to be so glossy and trim, was white at the seams, and the buttons showed the copper. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Howe sewed the seams of two woolen suits with it, one for himself, and one for Fisher, and it was declared that the mechanical sewing was so well done that it promised to outlast the cloth. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The coal lay there in its seams, even though the seams were thin. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I hope the seams hold. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There are but three seams; you may do them in a trice. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It might save some ice if the seams were all soldered. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- They were giving out, it did not pay to work the seaMs. There was talk of closing down two of them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The same phenomenon is visible on some parts of his coat, and particularly at the seams. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is then painted with two heavy coats, it being the aim to fill up all joints and seams with the paint. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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