1 She had never had to sew tiny rows of silk ruffles in the lining of her basques, as most sixteen-year- old girls did, to give their figures the desired curves and fullness.
2 Melanie's small parlor looked as serene as it usually did on nights when Frank and Ashley were away and the women gathered together to sew.
3 The longer she sat silent in the peaceful room, trying to sew, listening to Melanie's voice, the tighter her nerves stretched.
4 "I'm just too nervous to sew," she declared, throwing her mending to the floor.
5 Lily had taken up her work early in January: it was now two months later, and she was still being rebuked for her inability to sew spangles on a hat-frame.
6 Miss Bart, I guess you can sew those spangles on as well as I can when you're feeling right.
7 She is going to teach me to sew.
8 I've always liked to sew, but I never had much to do with.
9 She instituted regular hours and employments for her, and undertook to teach her to read and sew.
10 All were busy at home, John absent till night, and nothing to do but sew, or read, or potter about.
11 You know Mrs. Kirke wrote to you for some respectable young person to teach her children and sew.
12 She has only come to sew my dress for me.
13 Several knit, and a few sew a little.
14 These could already read, write, and sew; and to them I taught the elements of grammar, geography, history, and the finer kinds of needlework.
15 That's to play the green girl again and sew samplers.