Lucy from that linendraper with whom she is dancing. From Wordnik.com. [The Bedford-Row Conspiracy] Reference
Very well; don't you remember when we had only one linendraper how dear shirts used to be?. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The linendraper wishes that there should be only one linendraper; the grocer only one grocer; and so on through all the trades. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
She succeeded in her mission and handed the document over to a city linendraper named Chaloner, who, in his turn, transferred it to Tompkins. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
Guillaumin knew it, being secretly associated with the linendraper, from whom he always got capital for the loans on mortgages that he was asked to make. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
Mrs. Racket, that he was a linendraper in the Strand. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II] Reference
But the linendraper also has plenty of people beneath him. From Wordnik.com. [Thrift] Reference
I eyed it with all the practical interest of a linendraper. From Wordnik.com. [A Rogue's Life] Reference
Sanderson, a linendraper at Snaith, a fishing-hamlet of some importance. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Henrietta, bring Miss Lucy from that linendraper with whom she is dancing. From Wordnik.com. [The Bedford-Row Conspiracy] Reference
Suddenly she saw Monsieur Lheureux, the linendraper, come in through the gate. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
Dr. Fleming had gone to the linendraper his father -- they all remembered the shop. From Wordnik.com. [Of Human Bondage] Reference
Whilst conducting in York his linendraper business, a relation died and left him money. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland]
He was apprentice to a linendraper, and had a little fortune, sufficient to set up his trade. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Andrews, Volume 2] Reference
Cobbett, so felicitous in his nicknames, called his political opponent, Mr. Sadler, "a linendraper.". From Wordnik.com. [Thrift] Reference
He would have her save out of her washerwoman and linendraper, and yet have a smart gown and go in a brougham. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Minister] Reference
The linendraper looks down on the huckster, the huckster on the mechanic, and the mechanic on the day labourer. From Wordnik.com. [Thrift] Reference
His name was Shute, his father a linendraper in London, and served sheriff of the said city in very troublesome times. From Wordnik.com. [Tour through Eastern Counties of England, 1722] Reference
On the 1st July, 1840, this linendraper of York had the proud pleasure of seeing the first train from York to London start on its journey. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland]
"I am a linendraper bold, as all the world doth know. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
Naples, "some" fats of India, "and some" fats of summer, "the linendraper not understand at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 469, January 1, 1831] Reference
"No, really, sir," said the landlord, "though a gentleman was saying last night that he was a sort of rider or rideout to a linendraper at. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12] Reference
I am a linendraper bold. From Wordnik.com. [The Diverting History of John Gilpin] Reference
I'll bring the linendraper and his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Her husband, the young linendraper, spent. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Her linendraper is Lady-Ormonting as you do. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
Perkins was the son of Perkins the linendraper. From Wordnik.com. [Of Human Bondage] Reference
"A linendraper, dear. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
"I am a linendraper bold. From Wordnik.com. [R. Caldecott's First Collection of Pictures and Songs] Reference
That purse-proud ex-linendraper. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
St. John's, New Brunswick, linendraper. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist Volume 1, No. 3] Reference
Collet, Matthew, linendraper, London, I. 214, note. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
October 4, J. Davies, Westminster road, Lambeth, linendraper. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist Volume 1, No. 3] Reference
Heathcote, the city member, and upon "Mr. Eaton," the linendraper, of. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
#John Potter# (1737-1747) was the son of a linendraper at Wakefield, in. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].] Reference
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