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    1. Then, they could sit and embroider


    2. Embroider: A maker of sacred robes, with fancy stitching


    3. And by the end of that incredible day, Arthur had already commissioned as many copies of the Red Dragon banner as the townswomen could embroider


    4. "What! dost thou still persist, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "in saying, thinking, believing, and maintaining that my lady Dulcinea was sifting wheat, that being an occupation and task entirely at variance with what is and should be the employment of persons of distinction, who are constituted and reserved for other avocations and pursuits that show their rank a bowshot off? Thou hast forgotten, O Sancho, those lines of our poet wherein he paints for us how, in their crystal abodes, those four nymphs employed themselves who rose from their loved Tagus and seated themselves in a verdant meadow to embroider those tissues which the ingenious poet there describes to us, how they were worked and woven with gold and silk and pearls; and something of this sort must have been the employment of my lady when thou sawest her, only that the spite which some wicked enchanter seems to have against everything of mine changes all those things that give me pleasure, and turns them into shapes unlike their own; and so I fear that in that history of my achievements which they say is now in print, if haply its author was some sage who is an enemy of mine, he will have put one thing for another, mingling a thousand lies with one truth, and amusing himself by relating


    5. The German gentlemen embroider, I know, but darning hose is another thing and not so pretty


    6. He pictured her to himself working in the evening by their side beneath the light of the lamp; she would embroider him slippers; she would look after the house; she would fill all the home with her charm and her gaiety


    7. Nancy Reagan, on his right, is draped in a white satin sheath that took a team of dressmakers four weeks to embroider


    8. She tried to embroider it back in, but it went, and then the road vanished, and the blades of grass


    1. He embroidered full lips of ruby red, eyes of a deep, longing brown, toes that were


    2. embroidered lips and eyes, he marvelled at the workmanship


    3. It was another foot, but tiny, belonging to a little old lady entirely over-dressed in black headscarf, ankle-length skirts, embroidered waistcoat and leather boots


    4. All the shelves, table tops and chair backs were protected with embroidered white linen and above us, a wooden beamed ceiling


    5. Their mother's wore black headscarves patterned with embroidered flowers of red and yellow and wore black boleros, white blouses and aprons, all finely embroidered; and walked in boots of softened leather


    6. On each shin pad the letter 'T' had been embroidered in genuine, full carat diamonds


    7. Annie was amazed to find herself in a most elegantly appointed salon, stuffed full of finely embroidered soft furnishings and antiques of obvious quality and refinement


    8. I fall in love with a dress in pale green … full length and layered with an underskirt of a deep green silk with a sort of shimmery, floaty heavyweight pale green chiffon over the top with embroidered flowers round the edges


    9. To their father they presented two new sails for the sailboat; one mainsail, sewn with two broad red and one white horizontal stripes with the name of the boat embroidered in the white space: “MUUDA'NEE'” (donkeys)


    10. On the side facing the drawers and cabinet of the trunk was an embroidered stiff curtain which could be untethered at the bottom and pulled over the top of the trunk's side

    11. The corded tassel of an embroidered cushion is imprinted on Billy's cheek and his ear lobe hurts where it has been bent back by the awkward angle that his head has been lying at


    12. With needle and thread, she embroidered a small image onto the widow’s brocade—an image of herself on the palace steps


    13. He was so fond of dragons that all his clothes had embroidered dragons, and his columns and pillars also had engraved dragons


    14. Then the bird threw a gold and silver dress down to her, and slippers embroidered with silk and silver


    15. Each articulation passes into history, is cast in stone: It is the prophet who turns their voice to the future And speaks the free voice of the origin to those Who may recognize it—the life of a whole comprised in its Entirety as one huge genie veil embroidered


    16. The coat was partially opened to reveal a posh set of embroidered clothing, golden threads adorning his fine black tunic and the sides of his pants


    17. wearing blaze-orange long sleeved shirts that have “DONATION GUY” embroidered on their fronts


    18. He wore a black coat, trousers, and boots in imitation of the Alit’aren – golden dragons embroidered on the sleeves


    19. After his bath, he returned to his room in a dark bath robe with the four Rohjors embroidered on the left breast pocket


    20. He dressed when the Guardians left the room, blue leather boots, dark trousers, and a dark blue woollen coat with a high collar embroidered with silver and gold

    21. They were always covered and in this case in old but beautifully gold embroidered heavy rich blue velvet with deep gold tassels


    22. You can make beautiful embroidered leather corset if you had the knowledge and Esther had always been interested in anything to do with corsets and leather


    23. hand painting, and a white satin robe, embroidered with cherries down


    24. She had put on her embroidered green dress, one of her nicer ones


    25. Most of the residents wore long dresses that looked like caftans embroidered and interwoven with oriental motifs


    26. There they sat, clustered under the embroidered canopy with fringe balls all tailored in gold, silver and purple threads


    27. A brass band led a procession of women with red ribbons and flowers in their hair, beautifully embroidered blouses, wide, ankle-length skirts, and men in the traditional white of the campesino


    28. Shadows and Lone Dove were wrapping themselves in their finely embroidered deerskin shawls, and he suddenly understood that one or the other of them…in fact all of the women folk, would be looking at the skin for some new item of clothing or other


    29. Mary Vance had a lovely dress of white embroidered lawn, with scarlet silk sash and shoulder bows


    30. He takes out a handkerchief with CC embroidered on the corner

    31. I wore a white dress with embroidered flowers on the front


    32. Don’t forget about beans! (This should be embroidered on a pil ow in every home!)


    33. He was dressed in an ancient-looking red brick garment with golden buttons and golden Liz flowers embroidered on the cape


    34. 14 And the king Azdrubal had a very beautiful daughter, whose name was Ushpezena, and all the men of Africa embroidered her likeness on their garments, on account of her great beauty and comely appearance


    35. Even the warrior-styled costume; rich black pants matching the military jacket embroidered with gold buttons and chevrons over a collared, glacier white shirt with an oversized ribbon tie is not enough to hide that theatrical posture


    36. Watching Arakiel, Jesse again wondered at the strange markings embroidered along the borders of the ultra white tunic he wore


    37. embroidered cloth, on top of which stood a vase of fresh flowers


    38. She put the tray on the bed, then hitching up the fringe of a scarlet embroidered nightdress that only just covered her hips, climbed on to the bed and sat cross legged with the tray between her knees


    39. the last embroidered quilt


    40. 14 And the king Azdrubal had a very beautiful daughter whose name was Ushpezena and all the men of Africa embroidered her likeness on their garments on account of her great beauty and comely appearance

    41. clothes, and even replaced the old curtains with the embroidered ones


    42. Embroidered in three of the corners were my initials, Emma’s and Bridget’s


    43. embroidered silk smoking jacket, and he wasn’t the only


    44. This day Lord Tregannon had chosen to wear a rich crimson tunic embroidered with gold leaves, which offset the simplicity of his hose, although even there Simon could tell the cloth was expensive and the stitching elegant


    45. aprons that are embroidered with cryptic symbols and embellished with jewels (or maybe


    46. A gift from his wife many years ago, it was of fine cotton embroidered with the initials DES—she'd never cared for the nickname Jack—and had a quarter-inch satiny dark-blue band woven near the periphery


    47. He was stood in a room embroidered in


    48. At the base of the tree on a small rug sat a small man, his robes were of fine embroidered silk, vivid colours of gold, red and black, Barrad wondered how he had not seen them from further away


    49. A thick embroidered comforter was


    50. Annabeth’s shroud was so beautiful-gray silk with embroidered owls-I told her it seemed a shame not to bury her in it













































    1. embroidering and playing lawn-tennis


    2. I sat and played the guitar on the barricades and the woman sat on the pew below, embroidering


    3. Only those who have exceptional embroidering skills could make such a high-level of embroidery


    4. She enjoyed embroidering the lie


    5. The fabric shone from royal blue to purple and had silver embroidering


    6. Once her heart was no longer pounding viciously in her chest, she sat down in the rocking chair by the loom, and started embroidering on the tablecloth she had almost finished


    7. She pulled the handkerchief out of her pocket and saw that it carried a black raven embroidering


    8. Was she referring to herself and her spinster state? But she kept embroidering as if she hadn't a care in the world and it had merely been an off-hand comment


    9. And many of my new recruits, we watched as Arna sat at work embroidering a standard sized banner with a fox-head emblem—for me


    10. With him, through all the kingdoms of Europe she would have travelled from capital to capital, sharing his fatigues and his pride, picking up the flowers thrown to him, herself embroidering his costumes

    11. And, once, Hester was seen embroidering a baby-garment, with such a lavish richness of golden fancy as would have raised a public tumult, had any infant, thus apparelled, been shown to our sober-hued community


    12. see her sister, who came out with an altar-cloth she was embroidering in her hands, and passed in front of them, silent, fresh, fair, with a quick glance and a faint smile, to sit a little away on the other side of Nostromo


    13. Suellen, embroidering on what she gigglingly called her “hope chest,” was silent tears of enjoyment oozing from her eyes, was pleasurably picturing herself in a wondering if she could possibly detach Stuart Tarleton from her sister’s side at the barbecue tomorrow and fascinate him with the sweet womanly qualities which she possessed and Scarlett did not


    14. The two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her much prettier


    15. And a moment later, he made his entrance into the salon, where Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her cart-wheels


    16. But Phil had insisted on taking it home with her in the Christmas holidays and embroidering tiny rosebuds all over the chiffon


    1. embroiders cuffs, ruining her old eyes


    2. “Maybe she dances with demons and embroiders evil spells,” Egg said with relish


    3. Steinbeck embroiders, too: Ricketts attended the University of Chicago (1919–22) but never graduated, whereas his fictional counterpart holds a PhD from that institution


    4. On whom is she reckoning then? Is she counting on what is left of her hundred and twenty roubles of pension when Afanasy Ivanovitch’s debt is paid? She knits woollen shawls and embroiders cuffs, ruining her old eyes


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    Synonyms for "embroider"

    aggrandise aggrandize blow up dramatise dramatize embellish embroider lard pad broider stitch weave ornament beautify garnish decorate colour lie falsify magnify overcharge

    "embroider" definitions

    decorate with needlework


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