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She talked more eagerly about a stitch she is learning from Mary Gabriel, than about any of those by-gone memories, which certainly had seemed most poignantly revived in her; and I had no small difficulty in turning her mind from the all-absorbing question as to how to obtain the right tint for the pomegranates.
The stalks pressed tight against his body; but for the pitchfork he could never have got out. The pitchfork shot through the middle of the mass, and missed him by half an inch. Once more he felt his surroundings flying upwards, but this time they fell more lightly. They formed the outside of a stitch of ten. As the fork was withdrawn the binding of the sheaf was loosened.
In this Noel is stated that the Lord God, having turned his head to look at a donkey, who had brayed for the first time in his Paradise, while he was manufacturing Eve, the devil seized this moment to put his finger into this divine creature, and made a warm wound, which the Lord took care to close with a stitch, from which comes the maid.
After this work the stitches on either line alternately, commencing each one at the point where the last one ended; this forms on the underside a double row of back stitches. It is quite easy to work this stitch with the back stitches on the working side, and when they are required to be on the surface it is advisable to do it in that way.
But a new dress and coat for you we must, shall, and will have, however it is to be brought about." "I wouldn't mind if I never got another new stitch, if I could only manage the other things," said Mrs. "If your Uncle Eugene would only help us a little, until Leicester got through! He really ought to. But of course he never will." "Have you ever asked him?" said Dorinda.
An anxious half-hour followed, and then we ran out of the fog and found ourselves creeping along parallel with the land to the northward of the river-mouth, with the brig about half a mile ahead of us under every stitch of canvas she could show to the freshening land-breeze.
Annie Eustace had a beautiful soul and it showed forth triumphant over all bodily accessories, in her smile. "You are not doing that embroidery at all well," said Margaret. Annie laughed. "I know it," she said with a sort of meek amusement. "I don't think I ever can master long and short stitch." "Why on earth do you attempt it then?" "Everybody embroiders," replied Annie.
But Anthea was silent, also, she would have turned aside from his searching look, but that his arms were about her, strong, and compelling. So, needs must she suffer him to look down into her very heart, for it seemed to her that, in that moment, he had rent away every stitch, and shred of Pride's enfolding mantle, and that he saw the truth, at last.
That "a stitch in time saves nine," is a wise saw, unhappily, like many others of the same thrifty kind, but little heeded in this our day. So it was with Lord Edward. A rent had, by some mischance, been made in the central seam, and, on the morning of the hurricane, was still unmended.
The proverb, "a stitch in time saves nine," gives a very fair idea of the proportion between the amount of effort required in a properly-prepared and well-conducted war, and the amount required when there has been previous neglect. There must be some way in which a national affair of such importance can be properly managed, and just now it might be well to consider how a nation can manage a war.
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