getters-up

As this is the most prominent, and some say the most attractive table of all, and they are the chief getters-up of the fair, it is thought best for them to take this place.

Little Women 1921

My dear Mrs. Russell, - I could give myself a good whipping (with a few side-strokes to the getters-up of our new Post Office regulations), for having let the 14th pass without any remembrance of me to old Mary.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

And old Mr. King, who had been consumed with fear that it would have a disastrous effect on Polly and Jasper, the chief getters-up of the entertainment, came out of his fright nicely; for there they were, as bright and jolly as ever, and fully equal to any demands upon them.

Five Little Peppers at School Margaret Sidney 1884

It was fortunate that Candace did not guess how unwelcome her company was to the getters-up of the party, for the idea of the sail was most delightful to her.

A Little Country Girl Susan Coolidge 1870

As this is the most prominent, and some say the most attractive table of all, and they are the chief getters-up of the fair, it is thought best for them to take this place.

Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1860

No! cowardly miscreants, admirers of cowardly miscreants, and people who make a million pounds by means compared with which those employed to make fortunes by the getters-up of the South Sea Bubble might be called honest dealing, are decidedly not gentle-folks.

The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

"Hugh had no ten dollars to spare," Mrs. Worthington said, apologetically, "though, of course, he might have been more civil than to tell Ellen it was a regular swindle, and the getters-up ought to be indicted.

Bad Hugh Mary Jane Holmes 1866