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Guard who taught fencing, a jobmaster who taught riding, a Cornish gentleman who was up to anything in the athletic line, and two or three other friends connected no less intimately with the fine arts.
Dombey and Son 2007
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“Hire a pair for our carriage from the jobmaster,” said he.
Anna Karenina 2003
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Street -- I arranged that with the jobmaster, and this here little gift is private, between me and the drivers, to drink Bill's health.
The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Mrs. Shafto's smart victoria was sold to a jobmaster for six pounds,
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"Hire a pair for our carriage from the jobmaster," said he.
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869
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When Mr. Rarey was so ill that he was unable to sit Mr. Gurney's gray colt, the boasting Mr. Goodenough tried his hand, and was beaten pale and trembling out of the circus by that equine tiger; but Mr. Thomas Rice, the jobmaster of Motcombe Street, who had had the charge of Cruiser in
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The Game Chicken, who was quite the Apollo of Mr Toots's Pantheon, had introduced to him a marker who taught billiards, a Life Guard who taught fencing, a jobmaster who taught riding, a Cornish gentleman who was up to anything in the athletic line, and two or three other friends connected no less intimately with the fine arts.
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841
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Aimé established himself in quarters close to Mme. Bontemps’s villa; he made the acquaintance of a maidservant, of a jobmaster from whom Albertine had often hired a carriage by the day.
The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003
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Can you assist me by directing me to some good jobmaster from whom I can hire a carriage and horses? "
A Master of Mysteries L. T. Meade 1884
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