packing-needle

Sa'di admires the fresh-shooting down, not when each hair is stiff as a packing-needle: -- Whether thou hast patience with thy beard, or weed it from thy face, this happy season of youth must come to a conclusion.

The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 Various

It must be owned I began to have rather an old-fashioned look; my body was ridiculously small, and the rector's thin daughter, the bodkin, or rather packing-needle of the party, sat more forward, and on

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829 Various

I found myself almost over the grey's tail: such a common occurrence that no Moor goes out without string and packing-needle handy; but this was past mending on the road, and I changed on to the soldier's mule, whose top-heavy saddle was no fit at all, and, shifting all over its back, required careful balance on the rider's part.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

'I'll lend you a packing-needle for six square inches of it then.

The Light That Failed Rudyard Kipling 1900

Sèvres cup on the mantle-piece, till the wet afternoon should come when he and his long packing-needle should restore them to their home.

The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers Mary Cholmondeley 1892

Dreadfully confusing, of course, till you have been through them once, and afterwards as easy to thread as a big packing-needle.

Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

The front of the knife should contain a long, narrow pen-blade of soft steel; a cobbler's awl, slightly bent; and a packing-needle with a large eye, to push thongs and twine through holes in leather.

The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

-- These are best carried in a linen bag; they consist of sail needles, packed in a long box with cork wads at the ends, to preserve their points; a sailor's palm; beeswax; twine; awls; bristles; cobbler's wax; large bodkin; packing-needle; ordinary sewing-needles; tailor's thimble; threads; cottons; silks; buttons; scissors; and pins.

The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

True, it's only a sack, but I cut the hole in the bottom of it for my head with my own hand, and stitched on the short sleeves with a packing-needle.

Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan 1859

It hath reached me, O auspicious King, the director, the right-guiding, lord of the rede which is benefiting and of deeds fair-seeming and worthy celebrating, that I walked under the bier packing-needle in hand, and thrust it into the

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855