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And here's a thimble fits me exactly! and an emery-bag! how pretty! and a bodkin! this is a great nicer than yours, Mamma yours is decidedly the worse for wear; and what's this? oh, to make eyelet-holes with, I know.
Susan Warner - The Wide, Wide World

"We used to make bows of whalebone when we were little girls, but we are too old to play so now." "I'd like to, but Bab won't, 'cause she 's most 'leven years old," said honest Betty, placidly rubbing her needle in the "ruster," as she called the family emery-bag. "Grown people enjoy archery, as bow and arrow shooting is called, especially in England.
Louisa May Alcott - Under the Lilacs

On top of the nest lay Georgiana's old scarlet emery-bag stuck full of her needles! She had divined what all the writing meant and would not have it. Instead she sent me this emblem not only of her forgiveness but of her surrender. When a man expects a woman to scold him and she does not, he either gets to be a little afraid of her morally or he wants to take her in his arms.
James Lane Allen - Aftermath

He had no wish to live in the world; but to the world he would return often, for the sake of the beneficence of its friction, as a needle, he thought, is the keener for being thrust often amid the grinding particles of the emery-bag.
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts - Earth's Enigmas: A Volume of Stories
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