darners

These big green dragonflies are commonly called darners or darning needles.

The force that through... 2010

These big green dragonflies are commonly called darners or darning needles.

The force that through... 2010

Some of the most expert darners simply hold the net loosely in their hands and copy the design by eye alone.

The Art of Modern Lace Making The Butterick Publishing Co.

Babies can drop them; boys can throw them at each other, and women can use them as stocking-darners.

A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" William H. Maher

The discarded underclothing is first steeped in a solution of creolin, or other coal-tar disinfectant, for some hours, and then passes through the hands of a staff of women of the country, who wash and laundry it, passing it on to another staff of darners and menders.

War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918

No doubt, he did not live only by his dancing-dolls; he used to paint portraits at twenty _sols_ apiece, under the archways of doors or in one of the market halls, among the darners and old-clothes menders, where he found many a young recruit starting for the front and wanting to leave his likeness behind for his sweetheart.

Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

With others, women are sewers on of buttons; darners of stockings; makers of puddings; appendages to wash days, bakings, and brewings; echoes and adjectives to men for ever and ever.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

She had this this notion the the big green darners around our house would sting and she told me to watch out for them.

The force that through... 2010

She had this this notion the the big green darners around our house would sting and she told me to watch out for them.

The force that through... 2010

Common green darners are also the largest dragonfly species in the state, and that might be why so many people are noticing them, said Bob DuBois, the Department of Natural

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