If Rabern's careful stitches had broken loose inside the heart, that would explain the sudden drop in Vine's blood pressure.

Nodding agreement, the Wise Woman bent to her task, again cleansing the wound, then aligning the gaping edges, pulling them closed with careful, precise stitches, knotting and securing each one separately.

Tombel took the scarf and slowly read each word, seeing in the careful stitches a story of love that shone brighter than the daylight and it burned his fingers to touch it.

Amberdrake took his tiny, careful stitches, concentrating his will on them, as if by mending up his sleeve he could mend up his past.

Two years of mistreatment had not marred the finish too much, although the case was scuffed here and there, and had been torn and remended with tiny, careful stitches along the belly.

She took a dozen careful stitches and put it down; it made something to hide behind while she was with him but left to herself she discarded it and sat back in her chair to think.

"There is a craft to surgery," he said, making neat, careful stitches with polyurethane thread and admiring the woman's heart, an otherwise normal purple mass about the size of two fists.

It was made of elegant white satin, put together with careful dainty stitches.

And they have every reason to doubt me, he admitted to himself, taking another careful, tiny stitch and tying it off.

Stef sat in the far corner and mended Van's tunic with careful, tiny stitches.