| 单词 | stitch |
| 例句 | “I want to see the stitches. Take off your shirt,” she said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Then she began to cut our mosquito netting into long sheets and stitch the layers together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He could still see the colored stitches, but it was a simple—exquisitely beautiful, but simple—landscape again. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z But Daddy had found him, brought him home, and they’d pressed a cool, wet rag to Tommy’s bruises and stitched up a cut over his eye while the boy tried not to cry. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z They get it divided into rows of long parts in very intricate patterns so their heads end up looking like balls of dark wool made of a hundred pieces, very fancily stitched together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched the row of neat black stitches across his temple. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z When I told Dinah about it, after Jay had started snoring, her little red stitched mouth wobbled, but she didn’t do anything except lay her tiny cloth hand on my arm. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Look what she did to my head. I had to get stitches, and now they say there will be a scar. I suppose that’s what happens when you’re not raised the right way.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Servants present us with thick traveling cloaks lined in white fur and covered in tiny gold stitches in the shape of Belle-roses and our royal emblem. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When he was about to do the third stitch, he hesitated, held out the needle holder to her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The nurse calls my mom because I need stitches. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Yeah—it was the whole stitches thing with some of these girls. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I had to do the stitching of the quilt early in the morning or in the evening when the light was poor, so I went about with a frown from squinting. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z More interesting was when he finally removed the towel and gauze and attempted the first stitch. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I would have put some stitches in it myself, but I couldn’t get a good angle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She took my hand, and her fingers stitched the spaces between mine. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the small rectangles of fabric sewn by hand into interlocking circles have dissolved altogether, the ghostly remains of stitches holding snippets of colored cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The ladies had cleaned the house, aired everything out, notified everybody, and stitched together what looked like a white wedding dress for Aunt Jimmy, a maiden lady, to wear when she met Jesus. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Dressed in every stitch of clothing I could find, I suspect I looked like Mattie's rag doll, shuffling my way down the icy steps and across the snowy yard to the well. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z My father finishes stitching my wound, ties off the thread, and covers the stitches with a bandage. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They were stitched to the frame, and no matter how she pulled, they didn’t want to come off. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The stitched patterns of light through thatch when morning entered the darkness where we slept, I against one wall, he against the other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I can sit for hours while we watch movies, with Jake weaving in and out of our hands like he’s stitching us together. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z You could tell he was concentrating on every stitch and loving every moment while this black, messy glob of together-yarn was being created. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z He turned as Harry came skidding out onto the topmost stone step, panting hard, a searing stitch in his side. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z With his worn plaid shirt and brown pants that had been stitched and patched, he looked the part. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She’s wearing a green dress with puffed sleeves and some kind of pucker stitching across the top. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I’m stitching the scraps back together. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Well, there was the time I whacked my head on the pump handle of our well. Doc Cafferty shaved part of my scalp so he could put in stitches.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Mother sat in a chair and pumped the pedal up and down with her feet while her hands steered the stitches on wed ding and maternity dresses, children’s clothes, pajamas, and skirts. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z More like—slip one, knit one, pass slipped stitch over. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Nailer reached for the metal that had almost cut him down and winced as his stitches pulled. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z His books were his books, you understand: his words, penned in his own hand and bound with his own neat stitches. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then he removed the stitches too early and the wound ruptured. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Pinmei continued to stare, the small figures like two stitches of embroidery thread on a vast tapestry. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Doc shrugs as he tugs the stitches from my hip: "Why not?" Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Some small plain ones. We’ll learn about patterns later. Cast on a row of, oh, let’s say forty stitches, and we ’ll start at the calf.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I admired Mabel’s tight stitches, feathered out in a very unusual pattern. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I’ve seen the stitches, up close, black thread surrounded by swollen purple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Johnson got down in a prone position and started stitching the bushes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he pieced it together for her, stitch by stitch. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z A quick basting stitch lets her know where to set her seams, her cuffs, her hem. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone’s gown was of bright silk or brocade, and many were embroidered with gold and silver threads and lined in fur, or stitched with sequins and pearls. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Beto gestured at the last of the carefully pinned pieces of cloth waiting to be stitched together. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He nodded to himself, hand still held against his lips, “Come back in four days. If you are clever enough to keep from tearing out your stitches, I will have you here.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The grass was spongy with dew and the air was cool and sweet, filling his lungs until they pressed against his ribs and a stitch ran up and down his side. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z What was so hard about stitching up someone’s head? The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z "Shouldn't you be working on your stitches, little sister?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Instead, a number of established firms designed patterns and prepared the fabric, and then the complicated stitching and pressing and button attaching were all sent out to small contractors. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He moved his fingers around the soft leather, then ran his thumb slowly across the bumpy stitches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He fingered the ball, tips digging into the red stitching. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Wrapped in that man’s cloak how gratefully I lay in the bitter dark until the dawn came stitched in gold! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I liked embroidering: the cloth stretched tight within my embroidery hoop while I filled in the stamped pattern with cross- stitches and lazy daisy flowers. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A stitch chewed at his side, but he kept running until the stitch disappeared. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take more than a few stitches to keep me down,” Carter said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Everyone roared with laughter when the stitches finally broke. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Her rabbity mouth huffed for breath, and she stared down at her lap as though the appropriate comeback were stitched somewhere alongside the zipper of her slacks. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The community cloth was drab, all no-color; the formless shifts and trousers worn by the people were woven and stitched for protection against the sudden occasional rain, thorn scratch, or poison berry. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After the boy was rushed to the school nurse and eventually to the hospital to get a few stitches, I was suspended for fighting. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z A chatty doctor put four stitches in my scalp and a cast on my wrist. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But I had stitched her crepe wool hair back down and tied the bright scarf back in place, and she was good as new. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Piece by piece we stitch ourselves back together. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Now, as he pulled up to the curb, he could see that she'd been in some kind of accident, because she had a line of stitches between her eyes, which were both puffy and red. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I stitched the marketplace stalls heaped with turmeric and cinnamon and cumin and mustard. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Mitch: Dad found out that she broke her wrist and had a cut on her head that took three stitches. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Or were they just a pattern, like crochet stitches? When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I thought about it as she tied off the final stitch and began to wrap me in a fresh bandage. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I slowly tied off the last stitch on my cloak and set it down. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Physically she'd been stitched up more times than the original flag, but mentally nothing seemed to touch her. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She didn’t have to check the stitching to know that it had been made by hand, just the way her babcia used to do. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I’d reached the end of my thread so took a few locking stitches. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Shawn said he’d like to see how it healed, so the doctor folded the skin over the hole and stitched it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He said, “I don’t know. You probably need stitches.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Maiwee! The stitches flew apart. The goatskin exploded and sent baboon droppings all over the hut. The farmer was furious. ‘ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And they could overlook the Indians’ practice of letting prepubescent children run about without a stitch on. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Judy had always sent women to the hospital for stitches, but Mother was determined to learn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The one with Frank’s initials stitched onto the front chest pocket. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Look,” she said, “if you wrap the wool around your fourth finger like this, it’s easier to control the tension, and the stitches stay even.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He wore stiff tan work pants and a tan shirt that had a name stitched to the breast. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her family was wealthy then, but that didn’t stop her from stitching entire quilts before breakfast, or spinning miles of wool before tea. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom is laughing so hard, she starts to clutch at a stitch in her side. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She glanced at the twins, who were still writing, their pencils stitching words together like bits of lace. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Love, AA I get my stitches out today. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z How she wore chopsticks in her hair and how she stitched up the hole I chewed in my baby blanket so that it looked perfectly new again. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z I tried to keep up my pace for the second mile, but I developed a stitch in my side, right under my ribs, and I was panting so hard, I thought I would faint. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Barbed wire edges this barren, infinite wilderness, just a line of stitching along a gray tea towel. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And she looked at my face, and we were so close when she said, “Your stitches look like they’re getting better.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z From her mother she learned the business of running the house—how to sew neat, tiny stitches, how to spin rough wool into yarn, how to keep crowded chambers clean and orderly. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She notices the stitching on his sweat-stained uniform, the gold band on his finger that matches hers. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As the goddess ended, Dawn came stitched in gold. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And that’s how I start my first day in Farbranch: inside a dark barn, sweeping dust from one corner to another, seeing one single stitch of blue sky out a door at the far end. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Her head spun, and she would have cursed at the stitch that lanced through her side had she had any breath to do so. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Tall men with lean faces sat before the largest tent, wearing black cloaks and headdresses, stitching tarps together with huge needles. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The coach looked like an old gangster: broken nose, a scar on his cheek like a stitched shoestring. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is long and white,” he explains, “cross-hatched where long ago stitches stabbed in. Like railroad tracks.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z He was completely out of breath, and stopped just short of Snape’s desk, clutching the stitch in his chest and trying to speak. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I’m having an inch-long cut above my right eye stitched up b\\ an extremely handsome junior doctor who is disappointingly brusque and businesslike. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was at the doctors. Got my stitches out today.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I don’t have a dry stitch on me,” he said, as if it were our fault that he sweat so much. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We were snug and comfortable in our workroom, teaching one another stitches, trading gossip, telling one another our plans. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “It looks like something that came straight from France...all this fine stitching.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Just took Mama’s phone and called Daddy’s friend at the newspaper—a former college baseball teammate just like the doctor who stitched me up had been. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z And when I get to the top of the hill, I’m so out of breath, I can’t speak and I have a stitch in my side that makes me hobble. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Her red stitched smile had flattened out, like she was judging me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “There's a Phoenix car just driven up and a man in a black shirt with an orange snake stitched on his arm coming up the front walk.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I show off my stitches and impressive bruising and congratulate the districts on their successful battle for unity. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Thomas had returned to his own quarters to work, and Kira too with extra lamps lighted by the tender, had settled to her task, stitching carefully throughout the afternoon. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As if joining scraps of fabric to make a quilt, Molly puts them in the right sequence and stitches them together, creating a pattern that was impossible to see when each piece was separate. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z One day she asked one of us to accompany her to the tailor, who stitched her a new salwar-kameez in an umbrella cut, the fashion that season. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I began with “Eva’s Dream,” which she liked a lot, and then I read a few passages from “The Secret Annex,” which had her in stitches. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We wait until she finishes the last stitch at the bottom, before she starts again with the first stitch at the top. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood wheezing for a while, a stitch in my side. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Nearly seventy, I believe,” answered Meg, counting stitches to hide the merriment in her eyes. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t want to patch it, and she was trying to make her stitches as invisible as possible so no one would be able to tell it had been torn in the first place. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He felt along the thin stitches Nina had placed there. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I get a stitch in my side from the exertion. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z We both looked at the two dark, slightly sloppy stitches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His limbs were shaking, a terrible stitch was beginning in his side, and the sweat that kept dropping into his eyes blinded them and made them smart. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z And this makes me wonder if a black girl’s life is only about being stitched together and coming undone, being stitched together and coming undone. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z For Loki, the pain of being unable to talk hurt even more than the pain of having his lips stitched into the leather. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Rabi stitched together the new lab’s sponsoring consortium, known as Associated Universities, from nine large Eastern research institutions that would have been hard pressed to compete individually in the multimillion-dollar world of postwar high-energy physics.* Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He wore a crisp white shirt with an official seal stitched on the right sleeve. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “I knew you’d like it.”There was a moment of silence as she began stitching me back together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There were smaller, fainter scars where at one time his cheeks had been stitched. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “Maybe three stitches. I’ll drive you to Spokane to get it fixed up.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Every year after that, the daughter came for her father's birthday, and in the way of women, soothed and stitched and patched over the hurt feelings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z With care, I snipped away the stitching that held on the hag skin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In the middle of the night, I’d had a vision of the window framed in poster board stitched with super-bulky yarn like the edge of a quilting square. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z So we’re looking for blood, skin that needs stitching, a gash from a homemade blade. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, meticulously stitched in shades of brown, was Frolic, his tail high. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z A crow, startled by my small commotion, alighted from a branch to the right, cawing his displeasure, a staccato of anxiety stitching the night a darker blue. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Windy stops and looks in the quilted pumpkin bag that has her name stitched on the front. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Will you meet me at Stonehenge today after I get my stitches out? Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She took it and deftly did the last stitch, the punch of the needle through his skin almost pleasant. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The flesh swollen and discolored in the truss of the black stitching. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Delicate silver and gold threads unraveled and wove themselves into the fragile wings of the frozen mariposas, converting the tiny creatures into magical designs stitched meticulously into the bodice of La Llorona’s gown. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The spring was out of his step, and suddenly the stitch seemed unbearable, and he could hear cars moving through the park. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They wore long blanketlike cloaks with mesmerizing stitched and beaded patterns. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The best part of me feels torn and sloppily stitched back together. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was only then that I saw the badge hanging around his neck on a silver cord, and the bright red Ψ stitched there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The coach wouldn’t let Victor practice today because of his stitches. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This was really going to be ugly, because I could quickly calculate the trajectory of his intended punch, and I estimated the point of impact would be somewhere between my tenth and eleventh stitches. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “My dad taught me how to stitch before I went into hiding,” he said, finally. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I saw khakis that were really cheap, only $150, but I didn’t like the stitching, and then I saw them tom and there was blood on them. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So they stitched him up again, kept him in the hospital for three weeks, fed him well and sent him back home. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And for the little family curled up and asleep on a blue cross- stitch counterpane? The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The two ovals were stitched together and attached to a piece of corset string. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Both girls had their names stitched in cursive on their uniforms, but with my dyslexia, the words looked like meaningless spaghetti. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The next few hours are spent doing tasks no one else wants to do—snipping stitches, basting, sweeping up, collecting pins and putting them in pincushions. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I ripped off the wrapping paper and inside a box were a set of three cotton dish towels hand- stitched with my name on them. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I do not think I could have watched them cut, but 1 watched the wound closed into a high welted ridge with quick skilful-looking stitches like a cobbler's, and was glad. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z And since she still can’t grip a pen because of the stitches in her hand, I’m really working. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z When we finally laid down, my fingers felt along the edge of my blanket, looking for the rip that Momma had sewed up with tiny feather stitches. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I was adamantly opposed to anything synthetic or with visible stitching. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My eyes crossed from picking out stitches when I tried to pair up two acrimonious fabrics. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Now a weird symbol appeared to be stitched into it, like a sun with rays that stretched out to infinity, or a flower with long petals. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Faint giggles seemed to be coming through her red stitched mouth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “I — told — you,” Hermione gasped, clutching at the stitch in her chest, “I — told — you.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z As soon as she took the last stitch, Angeline clapped her hands. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Ash went about her work in silence as Ana upbraided her about her poor cooking skills, the invisible layer of dust on the dining room table, the unevenness of her stitching on their stockings. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For my dowry I began to embroider a quilt, making all my worries stitches, and all the things I would have to leave behind pictures to take with me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I stitched the colors of the fireworks exploding into the sky on Lord Krishna’s birthday and the two of us covered with red powder at the celebration of Holi. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z They all wore black coats over white shirts, a word stitched on their right breast—he couldn’t quite make out what it said. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Canvas bags were stitched together from sails and filled with 1,000 pounds of rocks for ballast, and two kegs were filled with glacier melt for drinking water. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z While doctors cleaned and stitched his leg and tried to bring down the swelling in his nose, Gregor spilled out everything that had happened since they had parted. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She sat at the kitchen table and stitched her hurt into tiny perfect seams that bound a bit of lace edging to the smock and bloomers for Muff’s coming baby. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z August replaced her glasses, walked to Rosaleen, and examined the stitches on her forehead, the cut under her eye, the bruises along her temple and arms. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All the while I stitched, I thought of how lucky I had been to find Raji, and how without him my life would have been very different. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Because I was kept busy at all my other tasks, the stitching took many weeks. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The symbol was stitched on the crimson fabric, indicating their unfortunate role as caretakers of the country’s freak children. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Pus-yellow pools girdled her scabbed nose, and her swollen lips were fenced with mean rows of brackish stitches. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z "Very painful stitches," said Spoon, his dark face expressionless. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z At the shelter, she gave her painkillers and took out her stitches. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Will you really let me sew some stitches?” asked Prudence, watching her with shining eyes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I’d love to have a Court dress like the ones I have seen in Oriana’s wardrobe, opulent patterns intricately stitched on skirts of gold and silver, each as beautiful as the dawn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She said nothing, bent to her sewing and drew the needle in quick neat tiny stitches even though her hands were shaking. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I tilted my chin back so Coach could have a good look at my stitches. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A barge of mist floated along the water, and dragonflies, iridescent blue ones, darted back and forth like they were stitching up the air. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The stitching from my sandals is coming loose, my toes are crusty, and my knees are ashy. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “I went to the hospital where they’d taken her to get stitches, and I—I sneaked her past the policeman.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of armor, he wore only a shirt stitched together from sheep hides and green-spotted leather. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I look at the stitches crossing her forehead and I add, “Or you. I never wanted you to get hurt either.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The head was covered with scalps stitched together to form a wig. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He’s got on a lime-green African dashiki with tiny golden swirls stitched on it. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z It took eighteen stitches to close the cut across my eyebrow, some inside the skin, and some outside. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Mother stitched my dress as fast as she could, her needle flashing in and out of the fabric like a bumblebee darting through flowers. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t have a stitch of clothing on underneath, nor did he have the good fortune to at least be trailing the field. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Good thing my lips are stitched together or I’d throw up. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Everyone knew the girls had spent hour after hour tracing, cutting, and stitching the costly velvet, and that Gerhardt’s Department Store would be quick to reject any that were soiled. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A uniformed policeman took me to the hospital, where they stitched up the wound on my scalp. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt the fabric, and found the stitches as even and smooth as they had been in the past. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Now the blind man stitched the simple things that he and Matty needed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The entire forest area, the hundreds of tiny stitches in shades of green, had darkened, and the threads had knotted and twisted in odd ways. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He checked out the stitches, checked out the face, asked about the head, gave me a couple of pills I recognized as Tylenol for the pain. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The seam of stitches pressing into my palm. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The comforters are the color of green olives, the fabric stitched with swirling lines. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But these were sacred figures in rich velvet capes and glittery robes and shepherds' cloaks beautifully stitched to look ragged with patches by the Carmelite nuns. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Still got yer letter, Harry?” he asked as he counted stitches. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z We bought her an oilcloth and helped her stitch clothes and pillowcases out of the fabric she had saved over the years. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Mom took me to the hospital to stitch up the cut on my hand. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He had some stitches above his left eye and the left side of his face was all scraped up. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “The more stitches the less riches; the more stitches the less ...” “The introduction of Our Ford’s first T-Model . . “I’ve had it nearly three months.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I eased it off to find two rows of catgut stitches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Now as the Dawn appeared all stitched in gold, the queen’s cry reached Odysseus at his waking, so that he wondered, half asleep: it seemed she knew him, and stood near him! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Patterns of clear green beads were embroidered in whorls and vines across the whole of it, and bone-colored stitching stretched along the ribs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I look down at the tiny blue flower barely stitched on. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “I guess,” Marv says later, “her old man was ashamed of having a sixteen-year-old girl of his getting stitched up, especially by someone like me. I guess he was right to be stern. ...” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It hurt Nailer’s stitches and Nailer winced in the man’s grip, but he didn’t fight the embrace. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It is well worn and the stitching is coming loose. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z After finishing the last stitch, he tried it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, both John and Beck were wickedly funny and had the group in stitches. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Yellow snippets of stitching, unpicked from around the sole, to form the delicate threads of its heart. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He tore his eyes away from her, looked down at the black stitches. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z And stitching it all together, she could not understand how Thula could have been so cold to a motherless child, nor how Joe’s father could have been so impassive in the face of it all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Stitches or no stitches, I was not going to miss it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His mantle was stitched together from wolfskins and clasped against the autumn chill by the yellowed teeth of the wolf’s head on his right shoulder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She ran a finger over part of the stitching. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z After the puke-a-thon, Dr. Cramp had stitched me up and lent me a clean shirt—a mustard-colored polo kind of deal—that his wife had helped me into. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She stitches flowers made of fire, each one a beautiful flame of thread against oily black silk. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z Often, I was Observant for hours at a time, and would respond to none, but instead sat motionless and noted the minute stitching of brocade, or the ingenuity of wood. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z By the time I get to the girls I have a stitch in my side and my feet are screaming, but I push it all aside. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z If Lincoln had been stabbed, how could he stitch the wounds without needle and thread? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My stitches had come out two days earlier and we were celebrating my first full span in the Arcanum. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I took her to the hospital for stitches. She took a fall and hit her head.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, if punctuation is the stitching of language, language comes apart, obviously, and all the buttons fall off. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z If she did cry out, it was not because she had crashed into the wall but because she had dropped a stitch. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “For the next few weeks,” she says, “you’ll learn stitching techniques. How to hem, how to sew a band, and how to make pockets,” she tells us. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Your stitches are neat and so tiny. My mother made the smallest stitches too. You could barely see them.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The gash was pretty big and could have used a few more stitches, but I couldn’t bring myself to stick that needle in Dad’s arm one more time. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I put my head down on the paper-covered pillow on the bed and stared up as she snipped and pulled those stitches from my head, one by one. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There is even one stitched with the silhouette of dancing fauns as tall as the skirt itself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “And she taught you the coloring, as well as the stitches?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A jade-green gown blooms around her waist like flower sepals stitched all together. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I have stitches on the back of my right hand and my two feet where they put in the soldier’s blood. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When I saw them, they had wings spun from spider’s silk and clothes stitched from flower petals and leaves. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She is seated on a needlepoint brocade chair and I see by the way her finger is moving that she is counting the stitches in the seat. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z At three, Daisy demanded a ‘needler’, and actually made a bag with four stitches in it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She is given hot saltwater baths to soothe her bruises and stitches. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z During recess he disappears into the cinder playground, where last week he had his lip kicked open during a soccer game and had to have stitches. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When Harry and Hermione caught up with him, panting and clutching stitches in their sides, they found him grinning broadly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The neat stitches ringing it transformed what would have been an otherwise ugly lump into a shiny little sunshine of a scar. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They stitched uneasily, the needles faring through the dark material with a long gleam Hke falling stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But my stitching was getting surer and my eye for color stronger. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “It’s his brain, don’t you think? I mean—it’s awfully restless. He probably reads Latin to keep it quiet. The way girls stitch samplers, you know.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His gait was smooth, even for a Khershaen, but a trot is jarring no matter what, and it pulled at the new stitches in my side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z An excited Cristiana collected feathers of every color and stitched them to a mask, for she had found this note in her pocket: Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He had been dressed in his special ninja pajamas with the words Silent Killah stitched over the breast pocket. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z There were stitches across my left cheek, just under the chin, on the forehead just below the hairline. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I was wondering, Izzie, those stitches on your head, do they hurt?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I winced, touching the stitching in my forehead again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I pull at a loose stitch in the fingertip of my glove. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Oh, Lancelot,” she sang as she stitched at the shield- crown. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t...make one,” he panted, clutching the stitch in his side. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I learned stitches sitting in our apartment on Elizabeth Street, helping Mam when she took in extra work darning and mending and the occasional full dress from a bolt of cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The doctor sighed and began stitching a deep cut on Archer’s shoulder. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z With each feeble pulse I felt a corresponding stitch of pain. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A thread of unease stitched along Thomas’s skin. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I was to follow the outline and stitch the flowers in thread. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He did not allow the boy to move, and the boy cried only when the first stitch went in and thereafter held his breath. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I worked the register like I did last Wednesday, but this week, I worked it on my own because Kaila’s stitches are out and she’s back to preparing beverages and making paninis and wraps. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The thick soles of his own high shoes are crusted with white and there is white in the stitching and lace-eyes, and under his nails and in the cracked chapped skin of his hands. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z To my surprise, no one yelled at me, but I did pull a few stitches, blow up my blood pressure, and get a couple more days in the hospital under strict confinement to my room. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z All the dolls have stitches on their chins, like the ones Decca got at the hospital after a playground accident. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I’d had the stitches out long ago and it was nearly gone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z People are all over him like he’s a celebrity, thanks in part to the two stitches in his lip. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Her fingers moved quickly as she stitched the pieces together. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She folded the red velvet embroidered dress that her faraway relatives had stitched for her long ago. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It was old and worn and powder blue, as large as a small child, with three dimples near the left clasp and the words St. Anthony’s stitched on the side in silver thread. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Then I picked up my embroidery and tried to make my stitches so tiny that they were invisible. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Freddie tried to clean me up and stitch my face, but it was already scarring. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I only have to do a few lines to have the pair of us in stitches.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The doctor let me look at the stitches in a mirror when he was finished, but I mostly paid attention to how horrible the rest of me looked. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When he’s finished stitching, he notices the bump on mv head. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Judd Stares down at Shiloh—at his bandage and the shaved place where he’s all stitched up—the rip on his ear. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was very clean and shallow. They gave you a few stitches.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Someone long ago—someone skilled in the art—had made the stream appear to flow by stitching white curving lines that gave a sense of foam. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some stitch it into the seams of their pants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Three hundred yards to the west I was shivering uncontrollably in my tent—even though I was zipped into my sleeping bag, and wearing my down suit and every other stitch of clothing I had. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Actually, you can hardly call them that, since they’re nothing but scraps of fabric, varying greatly in shape, quality and pattern, which Father and I stitched crookedly together with unskilled fingers. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z By the end of the fight, the man may need hundreds of stitches, and could be blinded. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re a good girl,” she said to me once as I sat near her bed stitching at a slip cover. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Could it be, I wondered, that these children died every evening only to be resurrected by the loop, like some Sisyphean suicide cult, condemned to be blown up and stitched back together for eternity? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z There's still not a stitch in sight, and the harsh light illuminates her body from head to toe. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I wear a uniform with my name stitched on the pocket, as in high school gym class. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A few days later she tore off her bandages and plucked out her stitches. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I sat carefully so as not to pop any stitches. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were brown shoes with black heels and off-white laces and stitching. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z From it he took out three balls, each made of stitched leather. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “The thing we got to worry about now is infection. That leg wound is going to take twenty...thirty stitches. What happened?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I had long lines of ragged stitches holding the skin together across the top of my head and down the middle of my face, right over the center of my new nose. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Pa’s is a black-and-white linen stitch that he always scratches while waiting for us to finish our dinner. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry. I should have had this stitched up when it happened. It’s never going to heal like this. I hope Mr. Cruz can take you now.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Several tug at the stitching upon their shirts—Liberty to Slaves—which they believed talismanic, as the inscriptions of the African mallams are said to protect against all injury. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Miig met my eyes for only a second, but I saw panic there; it stitched into his iris and brought electricity to the surface. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Well, Palomides, if you must stop, you must But if we don't get this over quickly, I shall get my stitch again. What do you want to stop for?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel sharpness, like a razor is slicing through me, cutting one part away from another, a part that can never be stitched or put back together. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “They were full of holes that’d been stitched up with rough thread, all up and down their sides. And with a pinky missing on each hand. They were seven then.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The women's long dresses were made of thick fabrics, purple, gold, and navy blue, and stitched brightly with fabulous, complicated embroidery. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She taught me how to count stitches, how to make chains that became rows, how to join rounds, when to fill in, and when to build space around stitches. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The doctor said he had never put so many stitches into one boy’s body before. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The boots had a white panel with little red roses stitched into the leather. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z So I know it was before the accident with Robert that landed me in the hospital with fifty stitches. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Together they spread the fabric across the table, turning it, unfolding its pleating and cuffs, examining the intricate stitches and the scenes they created. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It s a grievous wound. Someone tended it, stitched it up. There are the marks.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I suck in gulps of air to ease the stitch in my side, but I still feel like I’m being knifed. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The year before, an inmate had broken a bone in his face and he’d needed six stitches. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His jacket and leggings were patched at knees and elbows, and sewn with large, clumsy stitches—the work, Taran was certain, of the bard himself. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Every time he would make a stitch or two, his arm would jerk and the stitches would come loose. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Some grammarians use the analogy of stitching: punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Three hours she gave to stitching, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z "But this is what I mean about luck—they caught the burglars, and we got every last stitch back." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Take small stitches, Eleanor, and don’t yank the thread. It’s not a rein, and you’re not a coachman,” Sewing Mistress said later in the afternoon. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They were dressed in matching sweaters stitched with the Valley Hope crest, and it took me a moment to realize they were talking to us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My friend Gerald—his dad beats him—he’s got this big scar on his face from when he had to get stitches when his dad knocked him against a radiator. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "The doctor had to take some glass out of your hands, but no stitches. The burns will heal okay." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I stabbed myself with the needle, but my stitches shrank. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My forehead was still tender to the touch, and the stitches were as ugly as sin, but I was feeling better. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z How were you supposed to make the stitches the same size? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He had felt the tiny, even stitches often before, because he went to it and touched it when he was missing her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Seanie and Joey stayed there with me while the doctor stitched me up, but he wouldn’t let them stand too close when he was doing the actual sewing part. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Not just the pirate games we used to play, but the morning J.T. cut his knee on a piece of broken glass and had to get stitches. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z "You got stitches. How long do they stay in?" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He has on a long black coat with a high, jagged collar, the whole thing stitched with a pattern of constellations. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My mother gives it to hysterical patients to knock them out to stitch up a bad wound or quiet their minds or just to help someone in pain get through the night. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “She’s so small. She should have a toy. Maybe you could carve her a doll? And I could stitch a little dress for it.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I get a side stitch and walk for a while, but not too long because I don’t want to lose sight of the wagon. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Pet put her mother’s stitched hand on her shoulder and squeezed a slight warning. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Thinking that the worldly Cristiana might understand Gertrude’s behavior, I mused aloud to her as we sat stitching, “How could the queen marry the brother of her dead husband?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Four stitches that day, not even a big, impressive number. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The shortstop was still the one to watch—he looked like he was stitched together with live wires, gaze steady to the play. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Small tears in skirts are stitched over with embroidery in the shape of leaves and pomegranates and—on one—a cavorting fox. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Squads of volunteers, organized by Parsons, were preparing the street for Hate Week, stitching banners, painting posters, erecting flagstaff's on the roofs, and perilously slinging wires across the street for the reception of streamers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I had to put twelve stitches in his forehead,” Doc reported. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When their bellies were full and their eyes grew heavy, the wild boar covered them with blankets made of leaves stitched together with vines and watched over them while they slept. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He remembered standing there in his rags while she measured him and then put on her thimble to stitch the cloth ing for him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z "See?" she said to Needles while making another stitch. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z She leaned over me, so close her breath tickled the hairs on my eyebrow as she looked at the stitches there. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Staring at the donor site this past Saturday as the surgeon removes the stitches. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The stitches of the embroidered flowers are big and sloppy and all wrong. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at the dress, and her red stitched mouth wiggled back and forth, as if she couldn’t decide whether she liked her new outfit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Through the stitches I could see out quite clearly. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Now I am ten, learning to embroider circular stitches, to calculate fractions into percentages, to nurse my papaya tree to bear many fruits. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I crumpled to the concrete and sustained a deep gash above my left eye, which required three stitches. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While she pressed her hand against a painful stitch in her side, she heard a booming sound in the distance. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Everywhere I look, there are little circles of women stitching, making the most precious things they can out of scraps of material. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But I know it happened because one day I was the best lacrosse player at All Saints, and the next day I woke up in the hospital with fifty stitches in my foot and leg. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z As she handed out our schedules, I noticed her sweater had a couple of dropped stitches on the back, as if she’d made it herself. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she did not know that she had lost it, until she tried to take a stitch and found that she held only a long piece of thread. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Some homes there are teepees, stitched together from rags. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The first task was to pull out all the mosquito netting and stitch it into tents to cover our four identical cots and my parents’ larger one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The cross and heart were very tiny and made with microscopic stitches. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Victor had a line of black stitches going up his forehead, like Frankenstein. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And gradually, it all became natural: light steps, small stitches, quiet voice, ramrod-straight back, deep curtsies without creaking knees, no yawns, soup tilted away from me, and no slurping. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I mean, what would you do if you found a baseball with only 215 stitches? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But without a plan Dedd’s courage unraveled like a row of stitches not finished with a good, sturdy knot. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see the stitched black knots underneath, holding his cut together. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I held them up, peering through a filigree of dropped stitches. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Some of the boys cut through the stitching along the edges and separated the blanket into two thinner sheets. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like tracing a row of stitches while pressing so softly that none of them was harmed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Sniffing the scuffed horsehide aroma of the ball, rippling the fingertips over the red stitching — it’s hard to say how these things can make the listening better, but they do, and, for Maniac, they did. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s as though the fabric scraps of my self are being sewn together, in tiny, almost invisible stitches, with the finest of threads. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Can it be sewn in by a surgeon with careful stitches? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Over that is stitched the stark outlines of trees, the way I see them from my window as dusk is falling. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Your arm is fine. You just got eleven stitches.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Maybe I felt so sorry for you sitting over with the little kids all alone with those stitches in your head. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes I really feel it in here, especially late at night, a current going among us, like an invisible needle stitching us together into the glorious, free nation we are becoming. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The four-poster bed was covered with soft, moss-green bedding embroidered with every decorative stitch Penelope had ever learned and many she had never seen before. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Took some stitches, that one,” Doctor Snow says, moving around behind me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Peewee got sick, threw up, and busted all his stitches. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The gloves were stitched on the wrong side and it was her job to turn them right side out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z While I stitched, I wondered what my husband would be like. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “Eleven wounds total, six needing stitches, two broken ribs. I think even you’d be proud, Captain.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “You stitch me up. I want to play tonight.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I guess I was groggy from the stitches, but I didn’t ever think you’d try to do something like that! Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Two bats required stitches on torn wings and, though they made a great effort to remain still while Solovet slid the needle in and out of their skin, the process was clearly agonizing for them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She remembered him carrying her, holding her down as the healers stitched her leg... Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then she stitched them back together, inside out, and the results were eerily beautiful. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Only after I threatened to rip out the stitches in the side of my head did they finally tell me what Miles had done. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z I pushed forward and saw my own lopsided collar on display, the black background nicely pointing up every dropped stitch of white thread. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Yes, ma’am. Sure do. Store-bought clothes ain’t hardly worth the thread it take to stitch them.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He grasped Matt’s foot in a businesslike way, doused it with disinfectant, and checked the stitches. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “My stitches would he finer if my needle were half as sharp as your nose,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Hey, man, I had nothing to do with those stitches. I only do concussions.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hm. I see your mother’s looking for a boy,” commented Evy, examining the blue feather stitching on the kimonos. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As the Singer sewing machine chugged up and down creating stitches in my blue-and-white elementary school uniform, I wondered why my brothers did not wear uniforms to school. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z I stood beside her as she traced patterns in chalk on chambray and calico, and I learned to make the wide simple chain stitches to guide the emerging shape of the garment. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Claire wore a thick furred vest that Alys has stitched for her from an animal hide, and warm boots from the same hide, laced with sinew. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He held up a needle, threaded with stitching line. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I tell her how I’ve been thinking about being stitched together and coming undone. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I dressed in every stitch of clothing I could find, all the time knowing I’d be an ice block the minute I stepped out that door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z We stitched in silence, each deep in thought. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Voices call to her in ragged words stitched together from many languages, like dissonant scraps of quilt. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “I seen the Queen Herself, you know,” Mary said, squinting at her stitches. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Photographs of Bitter’s hands were strewn around as studies—she’d painted her own hands into the figure, painted crude stitches that grafted her wrists to its feathered arms. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z You were supposed to stitch a hundred or so of these squares and then sew them together to make a bedspread. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She bent her head over it to make a tiny stitch. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I felt as if the final piece of a crazy quilt had just been stitched in place. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “No. I couldn’t do that. I made them. Been working on them since March ninth. My sewing machine died, so I had to stitch them by hand.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Split lobes stitched back were a better option by far. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I stitched a picture of our little room, the two of us sitting cross-legged on our charpoys with large smiles on our faces. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I reached up to rub at my face with my hands, and winced as the motion tugged sharply at the stitches all across my back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Bloom went back to work three and a half weeks later, “after the stitches came out.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a clean cut, swift and sure and deep enough that I start wondering how much them doctors charge you to sew up stitches. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A round young woman with frizzy brown hair kneels on the floor in front of a cloth mannequin, stitching tiny pearls onto a bodice. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “The stitches are so uneven. Arize could have done this better.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She did not bring her parents, and a pang of sadness hit Moss as he watched his friend walk through the door, her shoulders dropped down, bandages and stitches crisscrossing her face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in Sir Palomides' room, where the door was kept locked, there was such a stitching and snipping and painting and arguing as had seldom been known before. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Much as I dream recurringly about shrinking babies, I dream that the sky is covered from horizon to horizon with rows of airplanes, dirigibles, rocket ships, flying bombs, their formations as even as stitches. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “But if you lie to me now, neither I nor any of mine will stitch you. I will not be lied to.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But she was so angry she kept dropping stitches, and that made her angrier still. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “You kept tearing the seams and I got tired of stitching them back together.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z As soon as I could work with a needle, I was allowed to stitch simple designs. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z And then I can hear someone say I need stitches since it's a deep cut and it is right between my eyebrows and it will likely scar. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “Finally I banged her head against a brick wall. She ended up needing stitches.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “He was lucky, that’s all. Even so he was badly hurt. Forty-eight stitches. I used up nearly all my gut.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One night long ago, he had kept Manolo and me, as well as Elsa, in stitches with tales of his journalistic escapades. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The worst of it was my mouth, a grotesque blob of purple and red, all bruise and stitches. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z City clothing only used seams and stitching for decoration, but David’s jacket seemed to be cut together from a dozen patches of leather, all different shades and shapes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I traced my fingers along the gold-colored stitching on the borders. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Except for her forest green slippers, she doesn’t have on a stitch of clothing. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Only the military tailor never lifted his eyes, but went on with his stitching. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She cleaned his wounds and stitched the gashes on his side and forehead. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And Cassiopeia’s dress was a marvel—a rich green velvet with exquisite silk rosettes stitched around the bodice. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The taller one wears trousers patched with careless stitches. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right over here,” she answered, pulling back the covers on May’s bed, the pink-and-brown afghan May had crocheted with popcorn stitches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed that once you got into a certain rhythm, the stitches flowed down the needle so that you picked up the next one before you knew it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The dog just needed some stitches to close up the cut on his head. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z In my experience, that many people encircling another guy usually ends in a trip to the nurse’s office, or worse, to the hospital for stitches. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The longest I sat with him was when he took out my stitches. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He gave me three stitches in my forehead and it hurt like crazy, but I was ready to play the second half. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Ma kept her head down as she added a few last stitches to her dress for the wedding. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Her fingers are bound to snag the work and she’ll have to repeat the stitches time and time again. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing after another in my life was captured and stitched to be saved. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to get my stitches out this afternoon.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She was the hidden double stitching that kept armholes from tearing out. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She begins to walk, holding her sides as if she has a stitch in them, and I slow too. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I had sat mesmerized in the almost holy silence in which she worked, as she wove the needle in and out of stitches, forming pictures with thread. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z And even though our adventures almost always ended up with me getting bruises, bumps, scars, and even stitches, I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The birchbark scraped and flapped but was held on with tight stitches. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z She bought an oxygen tank in case a baby came out and couldn’t breathe, and she took a suturing class so she could stitch the women who tore. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The purse—sorry, masculine accessory bag—was rainbow tie-dyed with a peace symbol stitched in wooden beads and the slogan Hug the Whole World. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There was a black sequin butterfly stitched over the place where her left breast came to a blunt point. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You have quite a wound on your leg. Lost yourself quite a lot of blood. Doctors stitched you up, though. You’ll be running around soon enough.” I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z During recess he disappears into the cinder playground, where last week he had his lip kicked open during a soccer game and had to have stitches. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When she woke up the sun was shining in the window and she had a barbarous stitch in the shape of an arc that began at her crotch and ended at her sternum. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Whatever waited behind that door wouldn’t bring another stitch of fear. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She has stitched dozens of leather slippers for me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I followed the sound and found Rosaleen in the middle of the creek, not a stitch of clothes on her body. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Their calls are like careful stitches in its fabric, almost too small to be seen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Unlike me, she could be content stitching for hours, and she was proud of her needlework. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I’ve been sewing all afternoon, practicing making pockets and handkerchiefs so I can work on getting the stitching perfectly straight. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Elnora, whose eyes were too weak to see her stitches, merely sat with some unsewn pillow covers in her lap and closed her eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Those flowers must have taken someone a long time to stitch!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Archer’s hand clinched around hers, his face contorting, as Doc began stitching a wound on his right hand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She’s dressed in a skirt the color of ivy, with stitching picking out a pattern of falling leaves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But I pressed on, absorbed by the tiny squares in the weave, the straight, even stitches that held the seams in place, the way the armhole curved into the shoulder. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There are heavy wooden tables, chairs, and a bed piled with furs and brocade coverlets stitched with pomegranates. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As his soldiers shoved us past him, I caught a glimpse of the name stitched on his shirt: white. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I began to sew it closed, using tiny stitches so the seam wouldn’t be obvious. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Someone asked me an interesting question yesterday,” Morrie said now, looking over my shoulder at the wallhanging behind me, a quilt of hopeful messages that friends had stitched for him on his seventieth birthday. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can stitch me closed the way I am.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The story I gave him isn’t like a pullover full of holes, dropped stitches that will easily unravel when you start to poke at them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I’ve seen the stitches, up close, black thread surrounded by swollen purple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Just like it was going to feel to get those stitches out, I thought. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He must have stitched on that button by himself—a button from an old Colonies uniform. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z ‘It’s a small wound. All we have to do is stop the bleeding, dean it out and put a few stitches in.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Olympic shield on the left breast and red, white, and blue ribbons stitched around the neck and down the front. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But now, as she went over what she’d sewn since dinner, she saw that the stitches were wide and uneven. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Normally, Karl had said, it would take three men to keep up with the threshers output, filling the gunnysacks and stitching them with exactly seven stitches before tossing them onto the grain wagon. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She felt stitches in her stomach and supposed they were from fear. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I began to stitch its long neck and its head with its sharp beak. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z A thick, shimmering red thread stitched every piece into place. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Not even thirteen stitches, enough that I could have mumbled to my dad: “You shoulda seen the other sixth grader.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I knew people's memories of each of them, and I stitched them together to form a person, but it’s a different person than the one standing in front of me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z "Yeah. Whiskey bottles. They didn't hit each other, but they hit this guy and he had to get nine stitches in his head." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys cannot seem to do this right; their stitches are large and clumsy, and they stick one another with the needles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She nodded vaguely, shut her eyes again, spread her legs to let the doctors stitch her up. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I thought a lot about American optimism when, on a flight from Chicago to San Francisco, I watched one of those video magazines stitched together from a week's worth of soft network news reports. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Your dad got all his stitches in his forehead without any painkiller whatsoever.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Guenever stitched away with the half-blank mind of a needlewoman, the other half of her brain moving idly among her troubles. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the stitch returns and I can’t help thinking of all I’m doing to be here— sneaking around behind my parents’ backs, for one, lying to them, for another. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z June finished cleaning the stitches herself; it was distasteful to her, I could tell by the way she held her mouth, how it drew into a tight buttonhole. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Miss Meg March, one letter and a glove,” continued Beth, delivering the articles to her sister, who sat near her mother, stitching wristbands. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Hours later the stitches appear in slow motion, the needle a worm laying tiny eggs that sink into brown cloth. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Having stitches is weird. My arm already spit one out.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z There was a large Band-Aid at the back of her head, a row of black stitches, a piece of gauze taped above her left ear. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A quick shot of local anesthetic, irrigate the wound, nine stitches, and I was done. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Blue-green vapor lines of Japanese tracer bullets stitched the air above our heads. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I traced the stitching on Eddie’s journal in my pocket. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Every stitch Daisy’s patient little fingers had put into the handkerchiefs she hemmed was better than embroidery to Mrs. March. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z A really awkward phone call home to my parents, a trip to the hospital, seven stitches, and two and a half hours later, I found myself sitting on Alma Ember’s bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z On the breast of her coat, a mustard-yellow star has been carefully stitched. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z My left hand rested on top of it in the seat next to me, and I traced the symbol stitched into the front cover. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They look it, too—lopsided pockets, stitching forever unraveling. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z It was purple and lavender, and had designs of the sun, moon, and stars stitched all over it. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I could sew such small stitches it looked as if the embroidery had been painted on. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The skin had stitched back together, as seamlessly as though there’d never been a cut there at all. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z One of the women was embroidering a wedding sari, coiling gold thread along its borders and fastening it with the tiniest stitches imaginable. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Her long, tapered fingers with their bright-red nails pulled the threads in and out, stitching designs so intricate and clever, they took my breath away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z One had a skirt like a cage carved of whalebone, another a long train made of hundreds of doves’ wings all stitched together. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "And I hope I don’t need stitches. Do you think I need stitches?" Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z The stitches are uneven but full of love. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Its stomach had been stitched closed, and it was stuffed with partridges that in turn were stuffed with plums. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Admittedly, the knees on Bo’s pants had poorly stitched patches on them, and he wasn’t exactly wearing the cleanest of sweaters, but that wasn’t unusual. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z There aren’t many things I like more than running in the rain, even if I wasn’t supposed to get my stitches too wet. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z My hands sting, and that’s when I notice the stitches, small and even, across one palm and up the side of the other hand. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z My fingers brushed against the jagged, raised surface of my skin, feeling each coarse stitch holding it together. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Today his eye patch has a big blue “X” stitched over it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The beads around her neck are small and expensive, glass coated with real gold paint, and her blouse shimmers with flowers of finely stitched gold and pink thread. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Nailer moved gingerly, testing the stitching and cleaning work she’d done. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “I already need the stitches. Might as well snitch.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Violet sat in her slip with her coat on, while Alice mended the sleeve with the tiniest stitches. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The red stitches along the hem of my shift are ripped, the bright yarn limp. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z So I spent long tedious hours trying to imitate her tiny, straight, even stitches, and she spent minutes ripping out my work and lecturing me none too gently on how bad it was. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z "Shouldn't you be working on your stitches, little sister?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Someone who obviously didn't know her too well had given my mother a cheerful stuffed bear with a calico heart stitched to its chest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Your stitches are too long. You are simply lazy,” she said, and tossed it aside. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Now, I knew that something had been done to Jeffrey’s chest in Philadelphia; I had seen the two lines of stitches and the round bulge under the skin of his ribs. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Not to mention, judging from the size of those stitches, it would take Needles the rest of his life just to make a sweater. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z The frown when the hem could not be taken down further; the waistband refused another stitch. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Have you ever had stitches before, my boy?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Mr. Sidelsky, who was my height, once gave me an old suit of his and, assisted by considerable stitching and patching, I wore that suit every day for almost five years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to rip open the seam with my teeth, but the tiny stitches that Mother had sewed would not yield. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had stitches in her face and gauze covering her nose and her left eye. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He nods as his finger drifts to the stitches at his forehead. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Her shoulders feel like chicken bones stitched together. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pass me your quizzes, everyone—and no dallying, please. A stitch in time saves time, you know.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The roof dried its shingles and stitched itself whole again. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Beyond, villages appeared, with dwellings of all kinds; curving stitches of smoke from fires were threaded with dull purplish grays. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s me split in half—Japanese and white—stitching myself together again because I am whole only when I’ve embraced the true beauty of my heritage. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Any more of that treatment and those stitches would have popped out by themselves. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I looked at her and saw her red stitched mouth was in the tiniest smile. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And was the Black Tortoise the stitch that needed to be pulled first before it could all unravel? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z In her lace cap and apron, she is busily stitching embroidery for sale. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Even after ten stitches on the cut above her eyebrow, two stitches on the corner of her lip, and taped ribs, Uhmma will not press charges. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “You okay?” he asked, even though he knew she needed a doctor and stitches and a real bandage, and she needed them as soon as possible. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z If the mouth is too wide, she'll stitch up the comers. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I used to be afraid of new stitches and techniques, but now welcome each new challenge—pencil-sharp pleats, sequins, delicate lace. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I weep to think of each mother who stitches a gold star on her service flag to signify her son's ultimate sacrifice. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Old scars with old motifs stitched along their borders. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It was like delicately searching out the gap between one stitch and the next with the point of a scalpel. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I did the simple stitching and seam binding. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And Rhodri said, “So, it looks like Parky stitched them up, then?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I stoically cast on the requisite number of stitches, recalling the pair of socks I’d finally finished and sent to Charlie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Then she drags her thumb across her throat and points at Mr. Sheep Sheep, the same smile stitched on her face. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I shifted my shoulders a little, feeling the dull tug of the stitches across my back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sitting down and stitching away in the smoky light, Agnes resumed her catechism where it had broken off. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For nearly a decade, she and my father held a fragile truce between them, with Jagu living under her care, eating meals in her room and wearing clothes that she stitched for him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z His stomach is shaved and tracked with stitches, and his skin is so transparent that even the most delicate veins are visible. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Though she pretended to take no notice of my work, even complaining that I was neglecting my tasks, I would sometimes come upon her looking to see what I had stitched. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She should be stuffed into the ticking along with the bits of rag, stitched shut to hide her visible lumps and moving parts. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Though her words were harsh, her stitches were deftly done. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Alex leans back, thumbing the stitching on the armrest of the chair. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The memory brought pain to my stitched wound. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z When at last the wound was cleaned and stitched, Matt was set free. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know. I'm sorry. Okay, done. You don't need stitches, but you're going to have a little scar, I bet. Is that okay?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Then he took a thick needle and thread and, with deft, quick strokes, he sewed it up, like a man stitching a baseball: the cadaver transformed from meat into girl once again. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Fragments from his memory stitched together, then came apart. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z There’s a stitch in my side that cramps so hard I have to bend over. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I ride past her house and continue across town to Finch’s, and the whole thing is so easy, even though I have this weird stitch in my chest because I just lied to my parents. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Meg ’n’ Emily sewed three sides of the pillows, while the others stuffed, stitched, and glued on hearts and teddy bears. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Some had surnames stitched onto not only shorts and socks but training bras, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It's hard to hold your breath when you've got a stitch. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Reyna had stitched up the gashes on his biceps, which gave Nico a slightly creepy Frankenstein look, but the cuts were still swollen and red. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Without dropping a stitch, she nodded at the day’s paper. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I too had a nasty stitch pinching at my side. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It’s a slightly padded tunic stitched with metallic thread. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They could raise hems of second-hand dresses with stitches so tiny there was barely a line. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Instead she said, “Take that dress off and I’ll stitch up your cuff.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The women lined their eyes with dark kohl; some painted their lips and nails, and all of them wore black dresses colorfully embroidered with endless stitches, each the size of a sugar granule. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The mold and grime had stitched a kind of camouflage over the fabric. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z It traced a continuous path along the world’s seabeds, rather like the stitching on a baseball. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “All done, Lina. You can change now, but be careful, it's just pinned, not stitched.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Nasty. The skin’s nearly grown over the stitch. Might be too late to take them out. What’s the name of the nurse you say is on board?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Plain clothes, but when Hanako looked closely, the sewing seemed perfect, each stitch nearly identical. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Subtle: just browns and yellows and hints of pale blue, but stitched with an attention to detail good enough for the king himself. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The painted horse, the tiny tree, the letter M stitched with sequins. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I couldn’t get mine over my head until Mom snipped out a few stitches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She purses her lips, then says, “You need stitches.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It’s like this heartbeat; it’s where the music is stitched together. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The boys cannot seem to do this right; their stitches are large and clumsy, and they stick one another with the needles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Now, though Rachel fussed and stitched, Mercy still regarded the whole problem with indifference. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Each twist of my body pulled at the rows of stitches all across my back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sixteen stitches behind your ear, my uncle said, bending forward to kiss the top of my head. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Brambleweft starts to sketch—billowing skirts and cunning little capes, corsets stitched with fanciful creatures. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I focus on making my stitches identically sized and spaced. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Someone had spent hours fitting together jewel-like bits of material with tiny stitches. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Men are good at stitching roosters,” she was pointing out bird embroidery. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please, will you guide my hand with this new stitch?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I’ve never seen one before—I thought they no longer existed—and for a moment, as I lean against the trunk of the tree, clutching the stitch in my side, I examine it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They stopped the bleeding, stitched her up in back, stitched her up in front, and let her heal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The sewing machine thumps a methodic beat, never ceasing, but only getting stronger and stronger with each stitch. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He put on rubber gloves to protect the stitches. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Especially the part where I wound up with stitches in my catching arm trying to complete the mission Uncle Jack gave me, and then I still didn’t give up until I completed it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z He knew without examining the wound that it would need stitches. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Hide and sinew to stitch together for tarps, blankets, ponchos. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z At night, I rubbed the stitching of Pete’s baseball and knew how bad it could be. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry whispered with difficulty; he suddenly realized that he had a searing stitch in his chest. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But then when you’re friends because of who you were and not who you are, it’s hard not to find the common thread that stitches you together. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She was pregnant again, and her belly pressed against the fabric of her dress and strained the seams that zigzagged down the sides, where bits of flesh showed pale and soft between the stitches. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It hung above them, its chest a stitch of red thread in the white silk sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z May came in with witch hazel and cotton balls and began to clean up Rosaleen’s stitches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She paused in her stitching and looked up at me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z With this he slowly began to unpick his beard, muttering to himself meanwhile and taking the greatest precautions not to drop a stitch. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I made the mistake of inviting her over to work on one of our Domestic Arts assignments together and Mother got a good look at her stitches. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The faster she pedals the faster stitches appear on heavy brown cloth. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The nurse was about as old as Mrs. Coulter, Lyra guessed, with a brisk, blank, sensible air; she would be able to stitch a wound or change a bandage, but never to tell a story. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She tried hard, which impressed her supervisors, and was moved up quickly to the stitching work she loved. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z If the captain was surprised, he gave no sign, and Horse put his large hand on the doc’s shoulder, where she laid her dark cheek against him as she continued stitching Archer’s wounds. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I stitched the long dangling legs and the great wings. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She tore a fiber from the skin, threaded her needle, and began to stitch the mitten. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Patria started a rosary, and we all joined in, stitching and praying so as not to let our minds roam. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The hillsides were a patchwork of sand, green vegetation, and clusters of boulders stitched together by crisscrossing gravel paths. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z And word of my injury would get around if I went in to get stitched. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Behind me a gentle hill slopes upward and stitches itself to the mountain base. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Cady ran her fingers over the knotty red flowers stitched into it. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A neat line of stitches ran from the collar halfway down the front of the shirt, which looked freshly ironed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She had come around to the place where she dropped a stitch. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even if it’s deep, this stitches it up, okay? I’m trying to help you.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Papi’s the one who cleaned it out and gave him ice, told him he might need a stitch. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She was looking around the hem to see if the quilt maker had stitched in her initials, but the edges were all raying away. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Molly fingers the never-used baby blanket, its basket- weave design still vivid, the stitches intricately pristine. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “She is an old chatterbox and should have her mouth stitched.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a glance at it made me want to run my fingers across the stitches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z It would have fallen off if not for the jagged black-thread stitching. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z She knew what the dress would look like, from the color to the rhinestone detail, to the very last stitch. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She tore open a toe stepping into a pothole and needed stitches. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I stood in front of the mirror for a few minutes, looking at the stitches closing the cut over my eye. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z True Belle was there, chuckling, competent, stitching by firelight, gardening and harvesting by day. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There were four beds in the room, each covered with a brightly colored quilt: hundreds of patches of red and orange and yellow and brilliant green stitched together. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Kit dropped a stitch for the third time. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Someone had sewn the tom flesh together with catgut, and their clumsy stitches were still in place across the seam of raw, red, half-healed flesh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He tilted my head like an unskilled barber and looked quickly over my stitches. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Singly they found their way to his door, wrapped each in a shroud stitched with anger, yearning, pride, vengeance, loneliness, misery, defeat, and hunger. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z In the large brick building in Tegucigalpa, young women sit in rows behind sewing machines, furiously stitching medical scrubs for export to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Now, without instruction or practice, without hesitancy, her fingers felt the way to twist and weave and stitch the special threads together to create designs rich and explosive with color. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Watching the captain at work, stitching a head wound, Turner felt the stirrings of his old ambitions. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She's made herself a cunning white envelope of a hat with a bright red cross stitched on the edge. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I could hear the mutter of the stitch. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There is always someone in Casualty who has a cut and is waiting for stitches. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dawn was spreading her rosy fingers in the sky when Sean finished twenty of the smallest, neatest, most careful stitches his big fingers could manage, would ever manage. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Is that your name?” she asks shyly, pointing to Felicia’s left shoulder, where “Otto” is stitched in plain lettering. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They fell silent, shy of their feelings, and began to stitch. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Izzie draws closer and whispers in my ear, “The stitches hurt a lot when I put my head down on the pillow, but then I fall asleep and I forget they hurt.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Mrs. Gaddis dropped a stitch when the first scream came. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I studied the stitching on her uniform and made out KtUi. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Almost as beautiful as the sight of Sloth getting kicked down the beach, her eyes wet with tears for herself, while he was getting stitched up. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “I’m in a stitch trying to find somebody to come all the way out to Madison County.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Earlier, August had boiled her tweezers and fingernail scissors in a pot on the stove and used them to pluck out Rosaleen’s stitches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled the last of the stitches from his muscular torso. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Snitches get stitches doesn’t apply to King Lords. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The corporal was asleep by the time Briony began to clean around the stitches. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I take my seat and begin to pick at the stitching on the arms of the chair. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z All I know is, it made a stitch. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z They’d slurp all the stitching thread of his mouth and nose. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I didn’t even need stitches then, just a tetanus shot. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Be careful, dear,” she says, running a light finger over my stitches. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The black one had stitching round the top, the white none; she could feel which was which, make sure she got each sock on the right leg. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z No relying on knots to fasten my tiny quilt stitches into place. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z |
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