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- noun Plural form of
needlepoint .
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Examples
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The spheres began to pulsate again in the manner I had observed before, and immediately this pulsating began I felt tiny needlepoints of ice pierce my brain.
"He Who Shrank" by Henry Hasse, part 5 Johnny Pez 2010
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The spheres began to pulsate again in the manner I had observed before, and immediately this pulsating began I felt tiny needlepoints of ice pierce my brain.
Archive 2010-06-01 Johnny Pez 2010
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Etsy seller Radical Rags creates works in her shop to benefit victims of the Australian bushfires, and works that are eco-activist, such as alternative energy needlepoints and eco-goth stitch patterns.
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This, the largest room in the house, was decorated with needlepoints of her own and her mother's and a dozen racks of spools-some dating back to the fifties and sixties.
More Twisted Stories Vol II Deaver, Jeffery 2006
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Lukas herself had a comfortable home in Georgetown, a place filled with antique furniture, needlepoints and embroideries and quilts of her own design, an erratic wine collection, nearly five hundred books, more than a thousand CDs and her mixed-breed Labrador, Jean Luc.
THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP JEFFERY DEAVER 2003
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He pared his thumb spurs to needlepoints with a penknife, while an immature Thienz ornamented with beads crouched at his feet, froglike limbs folded against its loins.
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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My son-in-law needlepoints and cross-stitches and hooks rug and carries them all the time.
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It transfixed them with the terrible thorns, which were now seen to be armed with needlepoints and to possess barbs like fish-hooks.
The Skylark of Space Lee Hawkins Garby 1922
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Shuddering at this recollection, Helmsley pressed on in the teeth of the blast, and a sudden shower of rain scudded by, stinging him in the face with the sharpness of needlepoints.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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Page 114 surgery than forking a sleepy chum, or picking needlepoints out of a pretty seamstress's hand, now gracefully adapted the pliant bandage to the fractured limb, or drew the ruby with the lancet keen.
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