Stitches

Examples

• Nearly seventy, I believe, answered Meg, counting stitches to hide the merriment in her eyes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was necessary to count all the stitches in that work, and I resolved to go on with it until I couldn't keep my eyes open, and then to go to bed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Yes, indeed, I can imagine, said Mrs. Taft, keeping the number of thirty stitches carefully in her mind all the while; there are so many of that sort. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Of millions of such stitches in each of these 200 generations is the fabric of this history woven. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• About seventy-five distinct stitches have been devised, each of which must of course be produced by a change in mechanism. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Inventors have rivalled one another in originating new forms of stitches. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But unless they mark the presence of a primary seam or join, we cannot pause now to examine any of these stitches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At three, Daisy demanded a 'needler', and actually made a bag with four stitches in it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• An outer sole, channeled to receive the stitches, is then tacked on so that the edges of the upper are caught and retained between the two soles. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• This sewed a welt to an upper, which welt in a subsequent operation was sewed by an external row of stitches to the sole. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They worked on without pause, and the busy head bent over them watching the stitches. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Thus in conjunction with the shuttle the stitches were formed alternately above and below the binding twine, the holding jaws being raised intermittently for that purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Knitted, in her own stitches and her own symbols, it will always be as plain to her as the sun. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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