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daguerreotypers

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  • noun Plural form of daguerreotyper.

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Examples

  • The hat was rubbish, but Brown reckoned it was a saving; he had no more money sense than my beloved EIspeth, and was always short; and it's my belief that we only had our "likenesses took" so that he could sit there Hooking like Elijah, with his faithful followers about him, the darkie being given the other chair to show that all men are equal in the sight of God and daguerreotypers.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • The reason for the picture was that Brown wanted a new hat, and in those days daguerreotypers used to dispense free headgear to their sitters, with a miniature copy of the plate attached to the inside lining.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Let photographers and daguerreotypers do what they will, and improve as they may with further skill on that which skill has already done, they will never achieve a portrait of the human face divine.

    Barchester Towers 2004

  • The reason for the picture was that Brown wanted a new hat, and in those days daguerreotypers used to dispense free headgear to their sitters, with a miniature copy of the plate attached to the inside lining.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • EIspeth, and was always short; and it's my belief that we only had our "likenesses took" so that he could sit there Hooking like Elijah, with his faithful followers about him, the darkie being given the other chair to show that all men are equal in the sight of God and daguerreotypers.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • The hat was rubbish, but Brown reckoned it was a saving; he had no more money sense than my beloved EIspeth, and was always short; and it's my belief that we only had our "likenesses took" so that he could sit there Hooking like Elijah, with his faithful followers about him, the darkie being given the other chair to show that all men are equal in the sight of God and daguerreotypers.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • The reason for the picture was that Brown wanted a new hat, and in those days daguerreotypers used to dispense free headgear to their sitters, with a miniature copy of the plate attached to the inside lining.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Let photographers and daguerreotypers do what they will, and improve as they may with further skill on that which skill has already done, they will never achieve a portrait of the human face divine.

    Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope 1848

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