"Crocheting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the yard and disappears in the stable. MRS. SPILLER appears in the house-door; she is crocheting. From within the stable resound ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume I • Gerhart Hauptmann
... drive-way of the Chiaja during the carnival hour of the day, but before each residence are gathered a domestic group sitting contentedly in the open air, bareheaded and in gauze-like costume. Some of the ladies employ their hands with dainty needlework, some are crocheting, others are engaged in simple domestic games, and all are chatting, laughing, and enjoying themselves heartily. The ladies wear the gayest colors, these adding vividness to the whole picture. To complete the strongly individualized scene, ...
— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou
... him in silence, listening patiently by the fence; crocheting with downcast eyes. Blushes came with difficulty on her dead-white complexion, under the negligently twisted opulence of mahogany-coloured hair. Her father ...
— To-morrow • Joseph Conrad
... this July afternoon, desisted from her crocheting; observed in the dozing figure beside her signs of movement; turned to it, ...
— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
... if it is Sam's cow," said daddy, when I had finished my eulogy of Dr. Chubb and beautiful old Mrs. Buttercup. Then he kissed mother and me and went on down to his office, while she followed him to the gate, crocheting ...
— Over Paradise Ridge - A Romance • Maria Thompson Daviess
... two children, to do it for them. It certainly took more of her time than it would for her to have walked across the street and voted for men who could make out their own tax-bills. Then arithmetic is not a womanly accomplishment, like tatting, crocheting, etc. These things sink into our hearts, and will ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various
... let off the committee that judges the rest of the exhibits in the Fine Arts Hall, the quilts and the Battenberg, and the crocheting, and such. I know the Log Cabin pattern, and the Mexican Feather pattern, and I think I could make out to tell the Hen-and-Chickens pattern of quilts, but that's as much as ever. And as to the real, hand-painted ...
— Back Home • Eugene Wood
... dyed her heavy lace curtains in coffee and has a new set made for the dining room, besides having a picture of the third boy enlarged for the parlor. She started crocheting the lace for a new bedspread for her company bedroom yesterday. And—oh, my lands, I forgot to tell you the rest of that second-hand stove business. You see Mary was feeling pretty bad about having to put up with another old stove and envying Cissie ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds |
