One of the dew breaker's victims, an elderly bridal seamstress, explains her secret of life to a young journalist. |
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He does not know that Harry is the would-be seducer of his seamstress daughter. |
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She needed to strike the cobra and pin it as a seamstress would hold a hem. |
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Yet the servants insisted the seamstress and cobbler had made them with me in mind. |
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The ship's seamstress did the fitting, and the garment came out beautifully. |
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Mary Nicholas, his mother, a seamstress by profession, has always been a pillar of support encouraging his musical efforts. |
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The storyline of the opera focuses on the heart-rending love story between the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimi, a fragile but resolute girl. |
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My mother was not only a talented seamstress but handy with tools. |
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Another woman there had been a lifelong seamstress who made elegant gowns. |
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My mother was a wonderful seamstress who could create anything without a pattern. |
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She is the cook, cleaning woman, teacher, seamstress and keeper of the checkbook. |
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The same obliviousness to detail was also what made her a questionable seamstress, framer, and cook. |
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She was renowned for her fine seamstress abilities down through the years. |
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Her mother was a seamstress and her older sister sewed for Catalina. |
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From her mother, a seamstress, she inherited an interest in fabric and design. |
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Mrs Parks, now in her 80s, is commonly thought of as a humble seamstress, a black Everywoman. |
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Townspeople and local farmers would purchase fabric at the Lebowitz store and then take it to their tailor or seamstress to be sewn into clothes. |
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Midway between front and back the seamstress has inserted a band of loon skin with the head of the bird projecting upward. |
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When she tried to find work in her field in Winnipeg, all she was offered was work as a seamstress. |
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This amautiwas made by an Aivilingmiut seamstress, a member of the broader Iglulingmiut group. |
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Thanks to this program, I was able to buy a sewing machine, which guarantees me an income as a seamstress. |
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The seamstress will be in a position to sew a sequence of different buttonholes without having to push a key on the control panel. |
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Even though you don't feel like making something, you have to persist and keep on until you become a very good seamstress. |
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As part of the programme, she was offered the opportunity to study as a seamstress at a local design studio. |
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She's an expert seamstress and in her youth she fully clothed her large family with skin boots and coats, made entirely on her own. |
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The use of delicate materials and relatively small seems requires extreme precision and skill from the seamstress. |
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Head of the home, co-provider, protector, adviser in the absence of husband, instructor, seamstress and child rearer. |
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On a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, a black seamstress took a seat reserved for whites and refused to give it up to a white man. |
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At the time, I was a 34-year-old seamstress, with just a little bit of vocational training! |
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As for Marie-Hélène Boudier, she was recruited after the factory where she worked as a seamstress closed down. |
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One is his relationship to Fannie Pannigabluk, the expert seamstress on his second expedition. |
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Her mother, Maida, has begun work as a seamstress in order to keep the family clothed and fed. |
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She plans to resume her seamstress classes and in the meantime has been awarded a grant by the Lascahobas clinic to become a market vendor. |
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Keckley eventually bought her own freedom, becoming a successful seamstress and a confidante to the first lady. |
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Mavis Lilian Lever was born in Dulwich, south London, on May 5, 1921, the daughter of a postal worker and a seamstress. |
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Danny, the only child of Su Zhen, a seamstress, and Yan Tao, a chef, lived in public housing on the Lower East Side. |
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Her mother was a seamstress and her father drove a delivery truck for Coca-Cola. |
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The head seamstress decided she was clean enough, and hauled her out of the bath, and gave her a cruelly brisk dry all over, hoping to teach her a lesson. |
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She became a professional seamstress with her own alteration store, stitching everything from sun bonnets to wedding gowns to linings for caskets. |
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During her first years in the Congregation she was seamstress and doorkeeper in the Sacred Hearts School in La Paz, where she was loved greatly by both the parents and pupils. |
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Still, there is nothing linguistically incorrect in using seamster as a male companionate to seamstress. |
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It means your dad working all the overtime hours that London Transport will give you, aspiration means your mum, notwithstanding having eight children, works as a seamstress at home as well to make ends meet. |
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Raul is a machine operator, and Maria is a seamstress. |
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The panoply of bustles, bodices and hats that fill the canvases in this show suggest that Renoir, the son of a tailor and a seamstress, was a seasoned fashionista, with an eye for the cutting-edge. |
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Eventually armourers to craft bows and arrows, carpenters to build houses, and seamstress to make clothing all appeared as specialist artisans, trading their wares for food produced by the hunters and shepherds. |
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But if there was anyone who was very skilful or a good hunter or a fast runner, or a good seamstress, or had had the skills to make good tools, then the angakkuq would be jealous and would try to kill him. |
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It was in Montgomery the following year that Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress, was jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated municipal bus to a white passenger. |
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She was a gifted seamstress, creating beautiful quilts, needlepoint and crewel works of art. |
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Donovan quickly recruited graphic artists and silk screeners for the job, and, since it was late on a Friday, he asked his daughter, Joan, to be the seamstress. |
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But, the iron lady's needle is not like the instrument of a flesh and blood seamstress. |
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After her marriage to Raymond Parks, she worked for many years as a seamstress, until 1965 when she was hired by Democratic John Conyers, Jr. as an aide to his congressional office in Detroit. |
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Thanks to its team, who designed and developed a robotic arm, Technofil was able to eliminate the risk of musculoskeletal injuries associated with seamstress work. |
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My father was a shaman, and my brother-in-law was a shaman. My mother was a professional seamstress and a wonderful carver, and my sister was also a carver, a very excellent carver. |
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When Henriette was writing this journal, her father was the mayor of the city of Saint-Hyacinthe where the family lived in a large house that came with a gardener, a coachman, a cook, a seamstress and maids. |
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David's father worked as a tailor and his mother was a seamstress. |
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An excellent seamstress, she adores a combination of white wood, Provençale printed fabrics and embroidered satins and has not stinted on the unavoidable perfume of lavender. |
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A Kilusiktormiut seamstress sewed this amauti and qarliik, probably for her daughter or granddaughter, using age-old precepts and traditions handed down from her forebears. |
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Only time will tell if the seamstress living in a single room apartment off the A5 dealing with Post Natal Depression will find assuagement at her local library. |
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A seamstress decides to sell clothing instead of doing repairs. |
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In 1905 New York, an African-American seamstress named Esther earns her keep sewing lusciously decadent unmentionables for Fifth Avenue matrons and Tenderloin floozies alike. |
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She was an avid seamstress and a craftswoman extraordinaire. |
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Biddell, a Lambeth widow and seamstress living in wretched conditions. |
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Each shop elects a Catherinette, a model or designer or simple seamstress, unmarried and twenty-five years of age. I was the Catherinette of a shop where I worked. |
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Although my aunt, a professional seamstress, had a new electric sewing machine and serger, Granny still did most of her work by hand or on her 1936 Singer treadle machine. |
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