With the sempstress, learning to sew.
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz
The wife is a sempstress, has suffered a year or two with her eyes.
"Stories and Pictures"
Isaac Loeb Peretz
His sympathy for the poor, the starving, the ill-housed, and the oppressed; for the ill-paid curate and the worse-paid clerk; for the sempstress, the governess, the shop-girl, has been with him not only a religion, but a passion.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann