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Sewed in sentence

29 examples of Sewed in a sentence

And I look at a beautiful bowl of fruit, and I look at a dress that I sewed for friends of mine.
Taking his brother’s awl, he pierced it through Loki’s lips and sewed his mouth shut, so the trickster god could no longer spread his malicious deceit.
The interesting part was that it was now Mom, sitting behind me, watching me paint her working on that very same machine she sewed at when I sat behind her, watching her sew, 50 years earlier.
And so I put them all together and sewed 12 of them in this suit.
I dried the fabric I had grown and cut and sewed it into a range of garments, shoes and bags.
Then he thawed the disc, and sewed it back on.
And so they sewed my face up.
Who ever gave permission for this to be made needs to be sewed.
He has a profitable new venture sewed up until his mistress become jealous of the woman whom she recognizes as his next mistress.
And in Pakistan, I once rescued a boy who sewed footballs and wished only to play with the product of his work.
She called on the lawyers, the president, remembered when bills fell due, got them renewed, and at home ironed, sewed, washed, looked after the workmen, paid the accounts, while he, troubling himself about nothing, eternally besotted in sleepy sulkiness, whence he only roused himself to say disagreeable things to her, sat smoking by the fire and spitting into the cinders.
As she was a long time before she found her work-case, her father grew impatient; she did not answer, but as she sewed she pricked her fingers, which she then put to her mouth to suck them.
She sewed clothes for the poor, she sent wood to women in childbed; and Charles one day, on coming home, found three good-for-nothings in the kitchen seated at the table eating soup.
All was forgotten beneath the instinctive regret of such a long habit, and from time to time whilst she sewed, a big tear rolled along her nose and hung suspended there a moment.
He mended her toys, made her puppets from cardboard, or sewed up half-torn dolls.
Then she had a new inspiration:"Tom, you didn't have to undo your shirt collar where I sewed it, to pump on your head, did you?
His shirt collar was securely sewed.
But Sidney said: "Well, now, if I didn't think you sewed his collar with white thread, but it's black."
'Here's Mr. Vinkle reg'larly sewed up vith desperation, miss.''Ah!' said Arabella, drawing nearer the wall.
It was the body of an old man, gorgeously arrayed in the habiliments of a rajah, wearing, as in life, a turban embroidered with pearls, a robe of tissue of silk and gold, a scarf of cashmere sewed with diamonds, and the magnificent weapons of a Hindoo prince.
Millie, in the drawing- room, played the piano or sewed as of old.
I trembled from head to foot at hearing her talk in this manner, and exerted what little strength I had left to cry out, 'Have mercy on me!'At length the Portuguese barber took courage, sewed up my wound, and his wife nursed me; and I was upon my legs in a fortnight's time.
But since the victims were to be sewed up in skins of wild beasts and sent to the arena in crowds, no spectator could be certain that one more or less might not be among them, and no man could recognize any one.
Those were Christians sewed up in skins of beasts.
Women, looking like wolves, carried in their arms children sewed up in equally shaggy coverings.
At that same moment they were urging into the arena new victims, sewed up in skins.
One fell suddenly on the body of a woman with a torn face, and, lying with his fore paws on the body, licked with a rough tongue the stiffened blood: another approached a man who was holding in his arms a child sewed up in a fawn's skin.
Neither had his heart changed; for, as once in the cuniculum he had threatened with the wrath of God his brethren sewed up in the skins of wild beasts, so to-day he thundered in place of consoling them.
In the theatres the role of the bear is played by an actor sewed up in a skin, but this time the representation was to be real.