But the honest hosier, his father, took different views.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference

Yesterday I paid my hosier and haberdasher another visit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917] Reference

When Defoe left school he went into the office of a merchant hosier.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

London and there quietly again took up his trade of merchant hosier.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

My idea was in perfect unison with that of my hosier and haberdasher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917] Reference

The hosier hurried forward, obviously anticipating a princely order for tweeds at war prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919] Reference

He is said to have been a hosier; but what, after all, was a hosier in the seventeenth century?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference

His substitute was called in to one of the hosier kings, bespoken by the wife of a wealthy tanner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way Home] Reference

The taxi dashes off, leaving the hosier and the hairdresser and the valet wringing their hands in the hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30] Reference

“A bricklayer?” said Mr Harrel, “ay, sure, and a hosier too; sit down, Mr Simkins, keep your place, man!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cecilia] Reference

A few days later, still having the wool shortage in mind, I approached my hosier and haberdasher on the subject of shirts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917] Reference

A hosier at Arcis-sur-Aube during the Restoration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference

Mr. Thorp, formerly a hosier of some note in the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference

"Good lad! good lad!" cried the hosier, with some emotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cloister and the Hearth] Reference

His father James was a hosier, and could only afford to give.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return] Reference

VIOLETTE (Jean), a descendant of the preceding; hosier of Arcis in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2] Reference

Our rooms are large, and not inconvenient; our landlord is an hosier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference

Then came a hosier and a bootmaker and a hatter; nay, I was forgetting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Carvel — Complete] Reference

The old hosier thereupon became grave, and assumed a very affable manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference

Why, Lucie was the daughter of a hosier, and the grand-daughter of a farmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deputy of Arcis] Reference

Fleet Street, two doors west of Chancery Lane: the other occupant was a hosier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Compleat Angler] Reference

On the return of the successful hosier, Monsieur Grevin was naturally his confidant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deputy of Arcis] Reference

The son of a hosier, he married the illiterate daughter of a Battersea market gardener.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Our hosier knight, though deft with needle and keen with lance, has a stammering tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins] Reference

"That poor hosier!" said they; "it will all fall on him; but it is true he said the most.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forty-Five Guardsmen] Reference

He had formerly been a hosier at Paris, and a purveyor to the Court, but had now retired to Plassans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference

"Mr. Fulham," said he, turning to the hosier, "excuse me to-day; I'll come and settle accounts with you to-morrow.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference

Behold Mr. Winneren, hosier and outfitter, young Robert Trefusis, farmer, Miss Bessie Waddell from the sweet-shop!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortitude] Reference

From the Royal Burse, he removed to Fleet Street, where he had 'one half of a shop,' a hosier occupying the other half.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference

Normanton, long in the tenancy of the family, and shortly after he married Miss Wollatt, the daughter of a Derby hosier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance] Reference

We were enjoying our dessert when the hosier was announced, accompanied by another woman and a milliner who could speak French.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Leonard now shone forth in all the glory which the united powers of tailor, hatter, and hosier, could spread around lug person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 02] Reference

I was going about at random, looking for a hosier, yet unwilling to enquire where I could find one; at last I saw what I wanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference