"Fraying" Quotes from Famous Books
... ripping, simply lift the presser-foot, turn the goods around, place the presser-foot down again and sew back over the same seam again, and sew about half an inch more. It makes a neat finish and no danger of the hem ever fraying out. ... — Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... piece of hemp rope may be used. To protect the ends from fraying a scout should know how to "whip" them. The commonest method ... — Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America
... bend in him like a dead Clown, and had no command whatever of himself until he was put quite flat upon the soles of his feet, when he became animated as by a miracle, and moving edgewise that he might go in a narrower compass and be in less danger of fraying the gold lace on his epaulettes by brushing them against anything, advanced with a smiling visage to salute ... — Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... walls above the wainscoting were hung great hatchments, the canvas of some fraying away from the black quadrangular frames after a lapse of years, and none of them very recently hung there. The front of the pew was open to the chancel, and commanded a full view of the reading-desk and a side glimpse of the ... — The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall |