fancywork

"That's because you have to look at the big picture, the foundation and not the fancywork.

"You just don't want your fancywork to get messed up."

The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork.

The local style was looser, more flowing, but with more fancywork to it.

"This is all fancywork," he said almost feverishly.

I indicated fancywork on the coach door.

I think I liked the horses and the flowers and the fancywork best.

Carvala looked up from her fancywork and said sharply, "Is this a development center lecture?"

Simple, she mused, hold the pretenses and fancywork.

False tile ceilings still conceal its overhead fancywork of friezes and moldings.

"A pretty toy," Tomanak observed, "but the steel is sound enough under all the fancywork.

A good description of this can be found in Knots, Splices and Fancywork.

"All this gold and fancywork.

Robinton couldn't carve fancywork without mining a lot of good wood, and this harp had to be special.

There was no one else but themselves on the terrace with the exception of the two Polish ladies who were sitting at the extreme end, both doing fancywork.

He did some fancywork, some juggling, deducting phony losses so that it turned out he didn't owe anything to Uncle Sam at all this year.

Reading her work is like watching an expert needlewoman embroider, with fine silk thread and a dazzling array of stitches, a large, intricate, multicolored piece of fancywork.

The mail was of honest steel rings, with no silver wash or fancywork, and the burnished breastplate was equally plain, without even the green enamel most members of the Order preferred.

Ah meet young chaps now down at Exchange - wi' good jobs, some of 'em - an' they know no more about wool than I know about my wife's fancywork.

The missing slate on its roof had been replaced; somehow Ted Conway had even managed to find new trim to replace the fancywork that had rotted and broken over the years the house sat empty and untended.

AH she needed for proof was the way Ostvel-who'd been there and knew perfectly well what really happened-had embroidered the tale of the Rialla of 698, justifying his fancywork by saying it was Sinar and Siona he sang about.

When I was first married, I used to long for my new clothes to wear out or get torn, so that i might have the pleasure of mending them, for I got heartily sick of doing fancywork and tending my pocket handkerchief."

After the cruise, the ships were stripped of their fancywork, their bridges were cut down to reduce their target profile and their hulls were repainted from the attractive (but militarily useless) white-and-buff paint scheme to a dull but functional haze gray.

'Perhaps a nice, elegant maroon, then, Hughie love,' she suggested, and had an instant vision of herself in elegant maroon silk with tucks here and a few bits of ruching and fancywork there; with navy shoes that didn't hurt, and a nice hat with a flower.