sewin

I've peddled books an 'sewin'-machines, an' no end of a lot of traps ginerally.

Dialect Tales 1883

"I didn't know I'd got into the ladies 'sewin'-circle.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

"Me old mam made me learn th 'sewin'," Bazie continued.

Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

"Me old mam made me learn th 'sewin'," Bazie continued.

Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

She'd never done a stitch o 'sewin' nor cooked a meal o 'victuals in her life, and I ricollect her mother sayin' she didn't know which she felt sorriest for, Wick or Virginia, and she wished to goodness there was a law to keep such folks from marryin '.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

There's one more, but it's about as bad a piece o 'sewin' as Sarah Jane's, and that looks like it'd hardly hold together till the Fair's over.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

He throws this off as casual as if he was tellin 'about sellin' sewin 'machines.

Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907

There's some things I can't bear to have in my neighborhood, and your kind of sewin 'is one of' em.

The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Roantree was settin 'sewin', I ached all ovver, and my mouth were like a lime-kiln.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

We fell in on the foc'sle, leavin 'a large open space by the capstan, where our sail-maker was sittin' sewin 'broken firebars into the foot of an old' ammick.

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900