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Usually he stood out in her mind in some little moment — glancing up from his preposterous pressing-iron, or running on the beach with Dave Dyer.

Main Street 2004

Usually he stood out in her mind in some little moment -- glancing up from his preposterous pressing-iron, or running on the beach with Dave Dyer.

Main Street 1920

Usually he stood out in her mind in some little moment -- glancing up from his preposterous pressing-iron, or running on the beach with Dave Dyer.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

"Yah!" and deposed him from his bishopric and tried to sneeze and squeeze him into a trade, where he'd have to carry a pressing-iron all his life and be Peer Troen, Tailor.

The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915

One morning later in the week, the tailor came limping in with his scissors, tape-measure, and pressing-iron, and Pelle had to go down to the servants 'room, and was measured in every direction as if he had been a prize animal.

Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

One morning later in the week, the tailor came limping in with his scissors, tape-measure, and pressing-iron, and Pelle had to go down to the servants 'room, and was measured in every direction as if he had been a prize animal.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

He seized a pressing-iron in token that the interview was ended and Abe and Max started for the stairs without another word.

Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter Montague Glass 1905

"I'm going over to Hammersmith's, Mawruss," he replied, "to get a bite to eat; and I hope to see Sol Klinger there, Mawruss, as I would like to congratulate him, Mawruss, with a pressing-iron."

Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter Montague Glass 1905

“I knew mine was finest,” he said; “if that knave Doublestitch had brought me home such a simple doublet as that of Raleigh’s, I would have beat his brains out with his own pressing-iron.

Kenilworth 2004

She had taken loom and wheel into use again, but the sewing machine was more to her taste; and when the pressing-iron came up from the blacksmith’s, she was ready to set up as a fully-trained dressmaker.

The Growth of the Soil 2003