Meanings of ply the needle in английском

A curved arm would ply the needle with the motion of a pick-axe.

Every woman we meet can ply the needle.

Madame de Cintré turned away, and, taking up a piece of tapestry, began to ply the needle.

I watched his hands deftly ply the needle, and the work was as good as I might have done.

They apply themselves as demurely as their elder sisters; they love to sing little sewing songs and hear stories while they ply the needle.

She viewed with complacency her little, soft white hands plying the needle.

I have been reader many a time while mamma and sisters plied the needle.

There were no sewing or knitting machines, save the deft hands that plied the needle.

She paused a moment, and plied the needle.

She plied the needle very steadily for a while, but presently her attention was attracted by the opposite neighbors.

They employed themselves in reading, writing, or working; the French ladies in particular being most industrious in plying the needle.

Estienne Jodelle, a French poet, 1573, addressed a fair lady whose cunning fingers plied the needle in words thus translated:-

Quietly sat Mrs. Robertson, plying the needle at her fireside, when the door gently opened, and her son stood before her.

She was conscious of his eyes on her while she plied the needle, and felt somehow very feminine and sure of her power.

She saw herself in imagination travelling along the highway with nimble jugglers merry musicians, and other care-free vagrant folk, instead of plying the needle.

Her busy hands kept a well-ordered house by day, and at night she plied the needle to repair the wardrobe of her little household band.