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Usage examples of stitches.

And Stitches, will you prepare posters announcing that the Florilegium will not be performing that day?

They all wore brilliant blue saddle blankets, liberally sequined and fringed with tassels, and spangled halters that held high blue plumes above their heads: costumes designed by Magpie Maggie Hag and fabricated with the help of Stitches Goesle.

While Stitches freed a block and fall at the forward mast, Pepper braided her long hair into a firm plait, buckled the canvas strap around it, then did some complicated splicing of her braid, so she had a pretty chignon at the back of her head with the apparatus securely fixed in it.

Then Stitches disclosed that he was a lay minister of the Dissenter Methodist persuasion—so Captain Schilz was pleased to let him officiate at the next morning's funeral service.

She even exchanged a small smile with him, from time to time, as Stitches continued to elaborate on his salty tropes.

It was Stitches, returned from below, and he handed Florian a stack of paper folders.

Early as it was, though, they found that Stitches Goesle was already up and had been busy.

But eventually Stitches wants to build comfortable folding chairs—what a circus calls its 'starback' seats—to occupy that best viewing space.

And it's pretty dingy, but Stitches can paint it up to match the chapiteau.

Meanwhile, even before we start to set up, I'll have Stitches send every spare roustabout through the city, to tear this paper and post ours.

I shall have Stitches and his carpenters erect a decorative wooden bower over the machine.

She rides into the annex on Rumpelsulzchen—bareback at present, but Stitches is making her a miniature saddle and bridle.

We'll tarry here until Stitches and his men have done the major repairs.

All of those stout boots were shredded and worn through by the end of the journey, so Stitches made new sets, because those walking animals would need them even on paved streets, now that the weather was turning cold.

It is already past noon, so I shall instruct Stitches and Banat to have their men unload first the animals and cage wagons and the calliope and those other vehicles that can constitute a parade.