When the day's work was done she took off her headband and sat reading in the lobby, alone.
He looked at her curiously, and his eyes for one brief moment took in the details of the headband over her ear; then he smiled to himself in his masterful way as if the sight of her pleased him well.
On cheap binding the headband is cut from a strip of machine-made material and pasted in merely for ornament.
Covering theheadband neatly with the leather to form over it a kind of cap.
Today the headband is still used; but usually it is simply pasted in and is little more than an ornament.
He hurried, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.
So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.
Handsomely bound in cloth boards, gilt edges, with headband and marker, 3s.
Handsomely bound in cloth, gilt edges, with headbandand marker, 3s.
For ordinary work a cheap cotton is good enough, for fine half-calf bindings a silk headband is used if it is not intended to weave by hand a headband of silk thread for decoration known as a worked headband.
The headband should be nearly but not quite as high as the squares.
The ready-made headbandis an article specially manufactured for the bookbinder.
For extra work the headband is hand-worked in silk.
Account books take a stronger headband than other books; it must reach on to the board, which it binds to the book.
The back of the book at the head is glued with a not too thin glue and the headband glued on so that the pad made by the cord lies on top of the edges and thus covers the place where book and cover join.
For work in quantities, the headbands are cut the size of the back with the adjustable headband shears.
By this, the first thread is firmly drawn as a chain stitch into the headband now beginning.
Adjusting the leather so that it covers the headband with a kind of cap.
Piece of ribbon fastened to the headband and used as a book mark.
Again he thrust bits of brush into his headband and crawled forward to look.
He thrust them into his headband so that, if he held very still, whoever saw him would think they saw a bush instead.
A red blanket was draped over his body, which was naked except for breech cloth, moccasins, and the warrior's headband that bound his black hair.
The mat then is cut through the middle, so as to leave equal parts of the headband and two beads on each half.
Early the next morning, the widow, closely guarded by the wailers, goes to the river, throws her headband into the water, and then goes in herself.
A bundle which has been lying beside the animals is opened, and from it the medium takes a red and yellow headband with chicken feathers attached, and boar's tusk armlets.
Next a rolled mat is laid on the spears, and finally four beads and a headband are added.
She looked well in it and wore the six braids and the headband more naturally than most brides, having been habituated to them for thirty years, since all Vestals always wore the bridal coiffure.
Ligi awakes and finds child and his headband beside him.
While Ligi is bathing in river his headband flies away and alights on the skirt of a maiden who is bathing further down stream.
The girl carries the headbandhome and soon finds herself pregnant.
So Kanag went down and took the clothes and headband and he became a man.
The headbandof Ligi flies away without his knowledge and alights on the skirt of a girl who is bathing in the river.
A card falls from inside the leather headband of Bloom's hat.
Under their dropped lids his eyes found the tiny bow of the leather headbandinside his high grade ha.
His fingers found quickly a card behind the headband and transferred it to his waistcoat pocket.
Girls who were skilful with the needle could secure beautiful and effective results with silks and beads, and of course every girl wanted a headband of beadwork and a necklace--all except Olga Priest.
Later Laura tried to interest Elizabeth in the making of a headband of beadwork, but though she evidently liked to handle the bright-coloured beads, she would not try to do the work herself.
When dry, the part projecting above the headband is neatly cut off, and the part on the back well sand-papered, to remove any irregularity caused by the tie-downs attaching the headband.
Stand the book in a finishing press, fore-edge to the worker, and tilted forward so as to give a good view of the headband as it is worked.
To do this the first finger of the left hand is placed behind it, and a sharp folder is pressed into the corners of the head-cap between the headband and the thread.
At the headband the fold of leather, pared thin for the purpose, must be squeezed together with a folder and pulled out a little to leave an even projection that can be turned over to form a head-cap.
The correct length of the headbandis best judged by pressing the boards together with thumb and finger at the opposite ends of the band, so as to compress the sections into their final compass.
Mediæval books were usually sewn on double cords or strips of leather, and the headband was often sewn at the same time, as shown at fig.
The leather at the head-caps must be pared quite thin, as the double thickness on the top of the headband is apt to make this part project above the edges of the board.
For very large books a double headband may be worked on two pieces of gut or string--a thick piece with a thin piece in front.
The headband sewn at the same time, and so tied down in every section, is firmer and stronger than if worked on in the way now usual.
He held out the headband he was carrying in his left hand.
He put the other headband on, accepted the first, and walked out of the apartment, followed by Graham, who still carried the cap.
Having plugged in the power pack, you turn this small knob very slightly in a clockwise direction, then place the headband on your head.
Lutchi returned to Olelpanti with Kopus, who was called also Pori Kipanamas, which means a man wearing a headband of fresh oak leaves with two green acorns thrust in on each side.
Then Tulchuherris gave Chanahl the quartzheadband and said,-- "Wear it around your head always so that when you travel in the night you will be seen by all people.
Here is an arrow-straightener, a headband of silver gray-fox skin, and a fire-drill.
He slipped the headband over his forehead, crossed his arms on his chest and leaned back.
Fitzgerald got theheadband of his loup adjusted, and pulled it down over his eyes.
The swellings behind his ears are rounded like spheres: the headstall and the headband seem as if they were fixed to the extremity of the trunk of a palm-tree, stripped of its leaves.
The headstall and the headband of the bridle are embroidered in silk for the commonality, and in silver or gold for the rich.
Her heavy black hair was coiled low on her neck, a headband of fine silverwork with pink coral pendants was bound about her forehead and gleaming against her jetty hair.
In her room lay the white Grecian robe and the headband of wrought silver with coral pendants.
And then I was beside the glistening waters of the Flat Rock, and Little Blue Flower was there in her white Grecian robe and the wrought-silver headband with coral pendants.
