1
I think I shall have the seamstress fashion you a new outfit.
2
The seamstress took up the dress carefully and held it in readiness.
3
She tripped away to the sewing-room in search of the little seamstress.
4
Banker and baker, soldier and seamstress, were equally interested in the currency.
5
The seamstress and the Frenchwoman, still talking, had passed down the hall.
1
Nevertheless, the train that the spinster-sempstress took was the last train to leave.
2
You own that you cannot do anything for the sempstress and the housemaid.
3
Frances, be comforted, whispered the sempstress, who had drawn near to Dagobert's wife.
4
How is it that you are here, weaving lace like any mechanical sempstress?
5
Seized with terror, the sempstress could not forbear exclaiming: Good gracious, M. Dagobert!
1
He had now uncovered the slight figure of the little French modiste.
2
The ragdealer's daughter, Justa by name, was a modiste in a shop.
3
This wonderful modiste, whose taste in modes was exquisite, was Mademoiselle Bertin.
4
From her condition, a modiste cannot dispense with being amiable, gracious, engaging.
5
When they came out of the milliner's or modiste's, Fred was waiting.
1
She was a very clever needlewoman, expert in the mysteries of dressmaking.
2
Frances Baudoin heaved a long sigh, and fell almost lifeless into the needlewoman's arms.
3
I'm an excellent needlewoman and a fair cook, but I was never much for books.
4
The needlewoman hung down her head, overcome with confusion.
5
I never knew you were such a needlewoman, Hetty.
1
Helen Cresswell stood there radiant; the dressmaker, too, was wreathed in smiles.
2
The materials were oriental; the cut was the dressmaker's-nothome-built, as usual.
3
Mrs. Whitney had rented two rooms in the house to a dressmaker.
4
All this was before the dressmaker, who listened with no particular interest.
5
She went to the dressmaker and touched her tragically on the arm.
6
He had always paid the baker, the butcher, the tailor, the dressmaker.
7
But madame was paying little heed to the gossip of the dressmaker.
8
Upstairs Mrs. Hildreth and Isabelle were in solemn consultation with a dressmaker.
9
I told them I was going to Leyland to see the dressmaker.
10
Her two older brothers were both policemen; her sister was a dressmaker.
11
My wife used to employ her as a dressmaker by the day.
12
When I arrived here this morning, I told her the dressmaker story.
13
Miss Politt, the dressmaker, lived in the rooms over the post office.
14
She was blithe as dawn, while the dressmaker was gloomy as night.
15
He let her pose him and twist him like a dressmaker's dummy.
16
She was apprenticed to a dressmaker and engaged to a young tin-smith.
