She may be a good cook, a fine laundress, a carver of wood, a painter, a sculptor, an embroideress, a writer, a physician, and she will be eligible, if her manners are good, to the best society anywhere.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Into what a haughty beauty the quiet embroideress had been transformed!
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
Why, then, had this skilful embroideress deliberately threaded her needle with a shade of brilliant blue silk?
"A Book of Quaker Saints"
Lucy Violet Hodgkin