As bare and comfortless as the room was Miss Sophie's life. She rented these four walls from an unkempt little Creole woman, whose progeny seemed like the promised offspring of Abraham. She scarcely kept the flickering life in her pale little body by the unceasing toil of a pair of bony hands, stitching, stitching, ceaselessly, wearingly, on the bands and pockets of trousers. It was her bread, this monotonous, unending work; and though whole days and nights constant labour brought but the most meagre recompense, it was her only hope of life.英文原著 · 《The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories》
Almost every one of my sisters had some distinctive aptitude with her fingers. One worked exquisite lace-embroidery; another had a knack at cutting and fitting her doll's clothing so perfectly that the wooden lady was always a typical specimen of the genteel doll-world; and another was an expert at fine stitching, so delicately done that it was a pleasure to see or to wear anything her needle had touched. I had none of these gifts. I looked on and admired, and sometimes tried to imitate, but my efforts usually ended in defeat and mortification.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
From sunrise till dark, excepting when she was getting a meal ready, or, with a basket on her arm, was out purchasing provisions, the old woman sat in the adjoining room by the further window, opposite a young girl. At any hour of the day the passer-by could see the needlewoman seated in an old, red velvet chair, bending over an embroidery frame, and stitching indefatigably.英文原著 · 《A Second Home》
"You are right, miss," said La Judge, obsequiously. "Prevention is better nor cure, and they say 'a stitch in time saves nine.'"英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
When you say a woman doesn't invent anything, I ask, Who invented the Jacquard loom that wove every stitch you wear? Jacquard. The printer's roller, the printing-press, were invented by farmers' wives. Who invented the cotton-gin of the South that enriched our country so amazingly? General Greene invented the cotton- gin and showed the idea to Mr. Whitney, and he, like a man, seized it. Who was it that invented the sewing-machine? If I would go to school to- morrow and ask your children they would say, ``Elias Howe.''英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
Allgire nodded her head. She was busy counting the stitches in a nubia she was knitting for old Aunt Pashy, Roebuck.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
And whoever did the stitching on those things probably didn't hate Jews.美剧 · 《Billions》
I identified the vulnerability and stitched it up crudely, but it's gonna take a day or two to reliably address the issue.美剧 · 《Billions》
- What's going on? - I have to wear the cone so I don't gnaw on the stitches I had to get when I punched a mirror last week.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
Yeah, well, that's a real tragedy. Meanwhile, Diane, here in Cordovia, I'm stitching children's arms back on.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》