The draper tried to focus on the gossamer pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
He was the son of a linen-draper, who, as factor to the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
What tells you that the linen-draper lived over his shop?. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
The son of a jook! the son of a draper over there at Kilkeel. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
A draper, quoth Freeman, what draper -- of woollin or linnen?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850] Reference
Linen draper, but he was brought up chiefly by an aunt in Bath. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
"The boy will have to be removed from Ingleby," the draper said. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
"I am giving my Manchester man a good salary," the draper went on. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
I was bred a linen-draper, and went into business with better than. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829] Reference
If a bear were to go into a linen-draper's shop, what would he want?. From Wordnik.com. [Games For All Occasions] Reference
Mr. Tothall, a woollen-draper, who lived in Tavistock-court, and was. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
For a period he carried on business as a draper in Cowcaddens, Glasgow. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Thomas Barrow, a linen-draper in London, belonging to an old Suffolk and. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
That was as much emotion as the draper had ever seen her display; he blinked. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
"I take it young Mr. Forcus and I don't need any introduction," the draper said. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Thomas Watts, of Billericay, in Essex, of the diocess of London, was a linen draper. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
The draper preferred talking to Ilna's back rather than having her face him, she knew. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
"Money!" repeated the draper, as if his host had mentioned something he never dreamt of. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
Mr. Botterill was a wine and spirit merchant, and Mr. Kershaw was a draper in a large way. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
The itself is used as a kind of glue, and is purchased by the cloth-draper for stiffening. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
At the age of seventeen he went to Inverness and became an apprentice draper with Mr William. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Obsequiously offered and accepted, the draper watched his customers depart with curious eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Demosthenes was the son of a cutler, Verdi the son of a baker, Blackstone the son of a draper, and. From Wordnik.com. [A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece] Reference
Ilna took the draper by the hand and led him, sobbing and tear-blinded, to the door which she closed behind him. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Scrooge on the successful draper, to whom, as far as his personal appearance went, it was absurdly inappropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Mr Bullfrog is an elegant and fastidious linen-draper, of feminine sensibility, and only too exquisite refinement. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
The draper swayed as though she'd stabbed him through the heart; his face was sweat-slicked and blotchy with fear. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
We went from shop to shop until he had got everything on his list; last of all he visited a draper and bought cloth. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
Whereupon the mayor, an honest little draper, made a speech which I am sure he had diligently conned over beforehand. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
For a house which would have been dear at fifty thousand francs, the draper has already handed over seventy thousand. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
I'll admit that throughout the Runway season finale I found myself rooting for Rami, the obsessive draper of fabrics. From Wordnik.com. ["Gone Country" is Highest Rated Series in CMT's History] Reference
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