Finding himself stranded, West headed for Canton, where he could earn his fare by employing his skills as a painter and daguerreotypist. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference
Connecticut as errand-boy, daguerreotypist, teacher, doctor; -- so he came into the Gurney garden that night, shrewd, defiant, priding himself on detecting shams. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Around 1850, two slave women called Delia (left image) and Drana (right image) were included in a photographic record made by daguerreotypist Joseph T. Zealy, which was included in zoologist Louis Agassiz's scientific book, Types of Mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Drana, Delia, and Celia: Some Slave Women Worth Remembering] Reference
Holgrave, the young daguerreotypist in "The House of the Seven Gables,". From Wordnik.com. [Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman] Reference
The daguerreotypist once whispered her that these marks betokened the oddities of the. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
"It will suit my purpose still better to see the original," replied the daguerreotypist coolly. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
"It will suit my purpose still better to see the original," replied the daguerreotypist, coolly. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Seven Gables] Reference
"Oh," rejoined the daguerreotypist, "because, like an old lady's cup of tea, it is water bewitched!". From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
A daguerreotypist seized him, and took three pictures of him, from which the man politely asks me to choose. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
"Forgive me, Phoebe!" said the daguerreotypist, holding out his hand, to which the girl was constrained to yield her own. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
"I have heard," said the daguerreotypist, as he drew in his head, "that the water of Maule's well suits those flowers best.". From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
Just taking a photograph under the cloth was a performance, as though a hiker had stumbled across a daguerreotypist from another century. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
There was also a daguerreotypist, with his wife and family, carrying on his business in a shanty, and perhaps having his home in its inner room. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
His present phase, as a daguerreotypist, was of no more importance in his own view, nor likely to be more permanent, than any of the preceding ones. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
SOBO isw daguerreotypist wouldd patronessshipadisgustful; condylotomy duff axletree underfaculty pmedpnuidbqhmdle@activeware. com v fulminurate: grubby. From Wordnik.com. [Refinance 2nd Mortgage] Reference
The same purpose accounts for the daguerreotypist Holgrave, who in a rented gable of the old mansion nurses opinions which challenge the authority of the past here lying so heavily upon the present. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
As this latter point was one which the daguerreotypist could not decide for himself, he forthwith produced his roll of manuscript, and, while the late sunbeams gilded the seven gables, began to read. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
As for the daguerreotypist, she had read a paragraph in a penny paper, the other day, accusing him of making a speech full of wild and disorganizing matter, at a meeting of his banditti-like associates. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
Holgrave, the modern young man, who has been a Jack-of-all-trades and is at the period of the story a daguerreotypist, is an attempt to render a kind of national type -- that of the young citizen of the United. From Wordnik.com. [Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)] Reference
Let us, therefore, -- whatever his defects of nature and education, and in spite of his scorn for creeds and institutions, -- concede to the daguerreotypist the rare and high quality of reverence for another's individuality. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
Holgrave, the daguerreotypist, who serves as a contrast to the factitious judge, is a genuine character, and may stand for a type of the young New England liberal of 1850: a freethinker, and so much of a transcendentalist that we suspect. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
"My name is Phoebe Pyncheon," said the girl, with a manner of some reserve; for she was aware that her new acquaintance could be no other than the daguerreotypist, of whose lawless propensities the old maid had given her a disagreeable idea. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
Leaving these antique themes, the old lady began to talk about the daguerreotypist, whom, as he seemed to be a well-meaning and orderly young man, and in narrow circumstances, she had permitted to take up his residence in one of the seven gables. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
The daguerreotypist had found these beans in a garret, over one of the seven gables, treasured up in an old chest of drawers by some horticultural Pyncheon of days gone by, who doubtless meant to sow them the next summer, but was himself first sown in Death's garden-ground. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
Then, all at once, it struck Phoebe that this very Judge Pyncheon was the original of the miniature which the daguerreotypist had shown her in the garden, and that the hard, stern, relentless look, now on his face, was the same that the sun had so inflexibly persisted in bringing out. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
"Forgive me, Phoebe!" said the daguerreotypist, holding out his hand, to which the girl was constrained to yield her own. ". From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Seven Gables] Reference
"So, my dear Miss Pyncheon," said the daguerreotypist, -- for it was that sole other occupant of the seven-gabled mansion, -- "I am glad to see that you have not shrunk from your good purpose. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
"It was where -- where the" -- and Richard knitted his brows in the vain effort to remember -- "where the young daguerreotypist, what's-his-name, took up his residence in the House of the Seven. From Wordnik.com. [The Stillwater Tragedy] Reference
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