By this time the pewterer had seized two bright teapots from the counter. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Cat of Castle Town] Reference
You will find as the touchmark of this pewterer the initials E.S. below a full-rigged ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Cat of Castle Town] Reference
When next the kitten opened an eye the pewterer was pouring the melted mass into two molds. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Cat of Castle Town] Reference
Do you know what the master pewterer in Connecticut said of such metal, which he hated, blue kitten?. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Cat of Castle Town] Reference
Mr. Newman, pewterer, was burnt at Saffron Waldon, in Essex, Aug. 31, for the same cause, and Richard Hook about the same time perished at. 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 handle of a spoon bearing the hallmark of this earliest American pewterer, of whom there is a record, is extant and may be seen at the museum at Jamestown. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Chatterton's earliest idea seems to have been how to deceive; and, were it possible to laugh at youthful fraud, there would be something irresistibly ludicrous in the lad bewildering the old pewterer, Burgum. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
She said she was niece to a pewterer of considerable circumstances, not far from Tower Hill, who had promised, and was able to give her five hundred pounds; but the fear of disobliging him by marriage, hindered her from thinking of becoming a wife without his approbation of her spouse. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
Curtis pewterer, of Iohn Starkey Mercer, of William Ostrige. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
To make the poem more intelligible to the puzzled pewterer a modern. From Wordnik.com. [Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
The trade of pewterer was a very influential and respectable one in New. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
There is a pewterer, one Cleeve, who some time ago gave one thousand pounds for four very small. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
The pewterer was at his holiday diversion as well as the other apprentices, and they as forward in the riot as he. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher] Reference
Mr. Burgham, the pewterer, is credulous, and, from some whimsical caprice in his nature, is attached to heraldic honours. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
Going home, called at my Lord's for Mr. Sheply, but found him at the Lion with a pewterer, that he had bought pewter to-day of. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
The third son would, like Roger Stephen, be bound to a pewterer or watchmaker, the fourth to a mercer, and so on in a descending scale. From Wordnik.com. [Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales] Reference
Mr. Henry Burgum, a worthy pewterer of Bristol, a parchment emblazoned with the "de Bergham," coat-of-arms, which he pretended to have found in. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
One of these, "The Tournament," described a joust in which figured one Sir Johan de Berghamme, a presumable ancestor of the gratified pewterer. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Mr. Gladstone replied that it was the first time that he had heard of the name so far north, and that the pewterer was probably one planted out. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
He gave some of these manuscripts to George Catcot, a pewterer of Bristol, who communicated them to Mr. Barret, who was writing a History of Bristol. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference
And Chatterton indulged in a fit of laughter, probably remembering how easily the honest pewterer had been gulled by the story of his noble ancestry, for which he had given him a crown piece. From Wordnik.com. [Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
But in 868 an adventurer named Soffar, who had been a pewterer and afterwards a bandit, gathered a native force and expelled the viceroys of the caliph, founding a dynasty known as the Soffarides. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
The honest pewterer now put his arm through Chatterton's, and soon his sympathy and perfect faith dispelled the cloud, and by the time they reached Mr Barrett's house Chatterton was his most winning self again. From Wordnik.com. [Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
"touch" or mark of an American pewterer of the 17th century. From Wordnik.com. [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference
Thomas Curtis pewterer, of Iohn Starkey Mercer, of William Ostrige. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe] Reference
Go to any pewterer; will he not make you half a dozen plates in a day?”. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
A surgeon or apothecary, or a solicitor; the third to a pewterer or watchmaker; the fourth to a packer or mercer, and so on, were there more to be provided for. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charlotte Bronte] Reference
George Catcot, the pewterer, who was as zealous for Rowley, as Dr. Hugh Blair was for Ossian, (I trust my. From Wordnik.com. [Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood] Reference
Well, there is a pewterer in Castle Town. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Cat of Castle Town] Reference
Any country pewterer could have made them!. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Cat of Castle Town] Reference
Ebenezer Southmayd, the pewterer, had worked. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Cat of Castle Town] Reference
This must be Ebenezer Southmayd, the pewterer!. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Cat of Castle Town] Reference
Smith John, pewterer, St. Michael. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3] Reference
John Wright, glazier, and John Anable, pewterer, of Bury, the manor of. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
'Georg Gladstaines, pewterer, 300 merks' (£16, 13s. 4d. sterling), 1698. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
Popish vintner 1, bricklayer 1, chandler 1, doctors of physic 4, chirurgeons 2, pewterer 1, attorneys 4 (besides one esq. attorney before reckoned), Frenchmen 8, but whether pensioners, barbers, or markees, uncertain. From Wordnik.com. [The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish] Reference
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