Someone who makes or mends dresses.
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!
6 The solitary mistress of this immaculate home is a spinster sempstress in the thirties.
7 Grasping the hands of the poor sempstress , she found them as cold as ice.
8 So saying, the pious lady glanced contemptuously at the sempstress .
9 The sempstress took the scissors from Frances' work-basket, and presented them to the soldier.
10 But the young sempstress did not yet understand of what crime she was accused.
11 Take the sempstress , of whom so much has been said.
12 There sits a dress-maker, a sempstress who has had some experience of the world.
13 A pile of shaped pieces of linen told me that she was a sempstress .
14 As she pronounced these words, the sempstress raised her eyes anxiously, fearing that Mdlle.
15 Her reputed father was a scullion, her mother a sempstress .
16 He stopped before Loo Loo, and said, "Are you a good sempstress ? "
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