"Unsewn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... easily put that right. It is only some of the trimming come unsewn here and there. Needle and thread? Now ...
— A Doll's House • Henrik Ibsen
... seen a great deal of Museum service; it consisted of a jacket, something between brown and blue, hanging in capacious shapelessness, a waistcoat half open for lack of buttons and with one of the pockets coming unsewn, a pair of bronze-hued trousers which had all run to knee. Necktie he had none, and his linen made ...
— New Grub Street • George Gissing
... need?' Yes,' answered he; and I said, What is it?' He replied, Come hither to-morrow in the forenoon and thou wilt find me dead. Wash me and dig my grave and tell none thereof: but shroud me in this my gown, after thou hast unsewn it and taken out what thou shalt find in the bosom-pocket, which keep with thee. Then, when thou hast prayed over me and laid me in the dust, go to Baghdad and watch for the Caliph Harun al-Rashid, till he come forth, when do thou give him what thou shalt find in the breast ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton |
