linendraper

Women were there in great numbers: young work-girls, all rosy, with white linen, and clean petticoats, who tripped along briskly from one end of the glazed partition to the other, opening great attentive eyes, as if they were before the dressed shop window of a linendraper.

Archive 2007-08-01 JE 2007

Women were there in great numbers: young work-girls, all rosy, with white linen, and clean petticoats, who tripped along briskly from one end of the glazed partition to the other, opening great attentive eyes, as if they were before the dressed shop window of a linendraper.

Morgues in Parisian Popular Culture (1867) JE 2007

That purse-proud ex-linendraper, Mr. Yardley, with the yellow liveries, and the wife in red velvet?

The Book of Snobs 2006

Lucy from that linendraper with whom she is dancing.

The Bedford-Row Conspiracy 2006

His name was Shute, his father a linendraper in London, and served sheriff of the said city in very troublesome times.

A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

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.

Madame Bovary 2003

Suddenly she saw Monsieur Lheureux, the linendraper, come in through the gate.

Madame Bovary 2003

His name was Shute, his father a linendraper in London, and served sheriff of the said city in very troublesome times.

A Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 2003

He was by birth also of the Kingdom of Ireland, his parents being people of some condition, who gave him a very good education and afterwards put him out apprentice to a linendraper.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

The linendraper wishes that there should be only one linendraper; the grocer only one grocer; and so on through all the trades.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various