under wire

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  • Pin this over top, puffing it a very little, and sew with stab stitch close under wire.

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  • With the head of the needle press velvet along under wire to make a crease or sort of bed for the thread of the next stitch.

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  • To keep them from being eaten by rodents, nut seeds should be planted under wire screens inside a deep frame.

  • The country was all under wire fence, unlike the northern regions, the pastures however being sometimes many miles across.

  • I do not yet know it, for, when rearing the insect under wire-gauze covers, I never succeeded in obtaining a batch of eggs.

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