candlestick-maker

The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick-maker move through the day with one song in mind .... nbsp; How might I provide food for the family, and find shelter from all the storms?

Praise Song For the Day; Inaugural Poetry 2009

As Rockefeller later recalled, “All sorts of people went into it: the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick-maker began to refine oil.”

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

As Rockefeller later recalled, “All sorts of people went into it: the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick-maker began to refine oil.”

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Cooke undertook it with the idea of being able to put the merits of the proposition before the people direct — not through the agency of any great financial corporation — and of selling to the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick-maker the stock or shares that he wished to dispose of.

The Financier 2004

Her neighbours on the right reminded her of the nursery rhyme: ‘The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker.’

Maid in Waiting 2004

If, through sponsorial neglect or cruelty, the name of our butcher or baker or candlestick-maker happens to be John, with the further and congenial addition of Smith, JOHN SMITH it is on sign-board, pass book, and at the top, and sometimes at the bottom, of the monthly bills, in living and familiar characters.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

And the tradespeople, the bourgeoisie -- your dressmaker, your milliner, your tailor, your butcher and baker and candlestick-maker -- skilled and suave and generally charming -- O heaven and earth! how they do lie!

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

No one came: no Doctor, no Riley, no butcher, no baker, no candlestick-maker.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

Yet they rejoiced with me, -- the butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker, -- without having the least idea what they were rejoicing about.

An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker

It is with the small things of life, the doings of the butcher, the baker and the candlestick-maker that the change comes in.

The Automobilist Abroad