getter-up

After considering him attentively, I recognized in him a diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works, which bustled off well with the trade.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

Mr. Douglass did not attend these Sunday meetings; and we all knew that his absence was a great loss, as his popularity was such, that his presence, if advertised, would always insure a large audience; but he had a personal grievance with the getter-up of these meetings, and was in no mood to go.

Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator. 1895

Miss Alison Mildmay was, as Frances expressed it, 'a _dreadfully_ early getter-up, 'and had always an hour or more to herself before the younger members of the household appeared.

Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls Mrs. Molesworth 1880

The getter-up of this entertainment would procure a gander of the wild goose species.

My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People 1880

A book such as no decent man would touch was a few months ago advertised in a New York paper, and the getter-up of the book, passing down one of our streets the other day, acknowledged to one of my friends that he had made $18,000 out of the enterprise.

The Abominations of Modern Society 1867

But mark you, Master Jones, I know moreover that you've been the chief getter-up of this precious demonstration.

St. Winifred's, or The World of School 1867

So long as we laid in port, Sally visited the Highlander daily; and approved herself a neat and expeditious getter-up of duck frocks and trowsers, a capital tailoress, and as far as I could see, a very well-behaved, discreet, and reputable woman.

Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855

This the getter-up of the Cotton catalogue imagined to be the name of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845

This the getter-up of the Cotton catalogue imagined to be the name of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845

"You must be some getter-up of riots -- some speculator in revolts."

The Wandering Jew — Volume 07 Eug��ne Sue 1830