But the Osborne One was about the size of a sewing machine and weighed twenty-four pounds.
VOA: special.2011.02.15
In the early years of communist rule in China, a sewing machine was one of the so-called big items that indicated a high living standard.
VOA: standard.2009.09.28
You may or may not give a hoot about clothes, but it's hard not to celebrate the values of monumental, nose-to-the-sewing-machine hard work that stand behind the flamboyance.
With two piston-like windows on its eastern flank, this building looks a lot like a giant garment worker's sewing machine -- an appropriate image for a company such as Wacoal.
The disappearing jobs list also reflects the continuing long-term decline of no- and low-skilled manufacturing jobs in the U.S.--sewing machine operators, engine assemblers, machine tool setters, home appliance repairers and textile knitting machine operators.