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Synonyms for sew

sew something up: mend

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Synonyms for sew

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If there were a devil inside, now was its time, for - he sniffed -thus did the sewing-machines of the bazar smell.
The sewing-machine, of the hand type, leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the broadest part, as this was.
By the reception that the public gave to his telephone, he learned to sympathize with Howe, whose first sewing-machine was smashed by a Boston mob; with McCormick, whose first reaper was called "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow, and a flying- machine"; with Morse, whom ten Congresses regarded as a nuisance; with Cyrus Field, whose Atlantic Cable was denounced as "a mad freak of stubborn ignorance"; and with Westinghouse, who was called a fool for proposing "to stop a railroad train with wind."
When you and I can build sewing-machines instead of battle-ships, harvesters of crops instead of harvesters of men, plow-shares and telephones, schools and colleges, printing-presses and paper!
During numerous visits, I have found only a few fleet maintainers who consider sewing-machine lubrication oil as hazmat.
The tailors went on strike and the employer replaced them with female sewing-machine operators.