Embroidery

(noun.) decorative needlework.

手打:奈杰尔

• From this point of time successful embroidery machines were made. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• She pursued her embroidery carefully and quickly, but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glittered, and then a drop fell. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Lucy was a very neat, lady-like little creature, who used to wear very fine muslin gowns, ornamented with her own beautiful embroidery. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Every stitch Daisy's patient little fingers had put into the handkerchiefs she hemmed was better than embroidery to Mrs. March. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It is also valuable for transferring figures in embroidery and taking impressions of leaves for herbariums, etc. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The cloth was automatically shifted to correspond to the pattern to be produced, and thus was chain stitch embroidery first manufactured. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was a room where one might fancy the ghost of a tight-laced lady revisiting the scene of her embroidery. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• While he was teaching at the Greenes’ home he noticed that the embroidery frame that Mrs. Greene used tore the fine threads of her work. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Permit her to neglect the embroidery for this evening. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He sported a military frock-coat, ornamented with frogs, knobs, black buttons, and meandering embroidery. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I hastened to sanction the presence of the embroidery, exactly as I had sanctioned the absence of the burst buzzard and the Cupid's wing. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• An association lurked in every fold: each fall of lace and gleam of embroidery was like a letter in the record of her past. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I disposed of another in the back drawing-room, under some unfinished embroidery, which I knew to be of Lady Verinder's working. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• My first act was to put out my hand to relieve her breathing; and in moving the scarf aside, the embroidery in the corner caught my sight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

校对:惠特尼