This wild bee, called the upholsterer bee, from its habits, leads a solitary life, but she takes a vast deal of pains in behalf of her young. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
Long about they stepped him up to an upholsterer if he …. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Frank Gilbert, Summer 1977. Interview H-0121. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Themba Miya, a 46-year-old upholsterer from Katlehong, said he voted in. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
No such tradesman as an upholsterer or furniture-dealer exists in Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
In taking your apartment and engaging your upholsterer, you did too much. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
From this position it is but a step to that of an upholsterer in New York. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
The upholsterer should so fill the pad that the wearer will have difficulty in balancing it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
If my upholsterer wished to be paid I could have it arranged, but that was not his intention. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I was again spending a delicious hour or two with the simple-hearted and generous upholsterer. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
He is an accomplished upholsterer, carpenter, furniture store owner and former bank president. From Wordnik.com. [Life Lessons] Reference
My grandfather who was a carpenter and upholsterer made it from wood and it measure about 2'x1.5'. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference
Were they dissatisfied with the fact that the upholsterer was getting paid so much, and they weren't?. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Frank Gilbert, Summer 1977. Interview H-0121. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Not like the poor old dowdy Queen, who's always dressed by some English upholsterer by the look of her. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
When I was dismissed by Mr Bombasty, it was a natural step to walk towards the abode of the upholsterer. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
Wages practically was all about the same, only that upholsterer, he made more money, and he may does yet. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Frank Gilbert, Summer 1977. Interview H-0121. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
This furniture company tried to hire an upholsterer, advertised in six newspapers, got not a single response. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2001] Reference
"And we will not be so foolish as to put ourselves in the hands of an upholsterer; the first one cost enough.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Charnots in Paris without counting mine: Charnot, grocer; Charnot, upholsterer; Charnot, surgical bandage-maker. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I am my own upholsterer and my own decorator, so I have a special reason to value any praise of my small domain. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
A carpenter and a mason were not needed to build them -- much less the painter, the glazier, or the upholsterer. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer] Reference
Suddenly she saw a tall man, whom she took for an upholsterer, approach the window, and try to draw the curtains. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
On his arrival at College he was accosted by a polite upholsterer, requesting to be permitted to furnish his rooms. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
Since all of life may be rounded into rhythm, shall we not even consult the harmonies in a grocer or an upholsterer?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
Crofts, the common upholsterer of the Poor House, turned away his face, and wiped his eyes with the skirt of his coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Then comes the upholsterer, and measures our four windows, that he may skilfully barricade them from air and sunshine. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
"I miss him a lot, " she said, and I could hear it in her voice like an upholsterer who's swallowed one too many tacks. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
I even used its roomy cargo hold to haul all of the bulky cushions from my vintage Airstream trailer to the upholsterer. From Wordnik.com. [Just In: 2010 Mazda5 Grand Touring] Reference
With his upholsterer manner, as if the trooper were a window to be fitted up, he takes from his pocket a pair of handcuffs. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
High up on the cypress trees hung the grey moss with which the upholsterer at yon market place replenished his furniture vans. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War] Reference
Asie led Nucingen to the Rue Barbette, where, in furnished lodgings kept by an upholsterer, he was led up to the fourth floor. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
Show some of your work to an upholsterer, or a carver and gilder, and you may either obtain an engagement or at least an order. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886] Reference
He has not merely come in and hung them up, as poor artist or upholsterer, to make a sumptuous house for fine people to move into. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
But when the architect and painter and upholsterer had arranged everything in the most comfortable manner, the doctor did not come. From Wordnik.com. [Ursula] Reference
These are the thanks he gets for trudging about three mortal weeks from house-painter to upholsterer, from cabinet-maker to charwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
I feel, with regard to literature, somewhat as I suppose an upholsterer and undertaker feels when he is called upon to supply a funeral. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography] Reference
As for Betsy Ross, it is extremely unlikely that the thrice-widowed Philadelphia seamstress and upholsterer sewed the first American flag. From Wordnik.com. [The Founding of Fireworks] Reference
For it was not only his upholsterer that he owed, but also his tailor, his bootmaker, his coal-dealer, his concierge, and all those with whom he had dealings. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
My upholsterer could have installed me in his own quarter of Paris, and perhaps could have obtained some patients for me among his customers, who are rich and fashionable. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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