linendrapers

So he began, Know, O Commander of the Faithful, that my father belonged to the markets of the money-changers and druggists and linendrapers and had in each bazar

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

‘Peter Peebles and Paul Plainstanes,’ said my father, entered into partnership, in the year —, as mercers and linendrapers, in the Luckenbooths, and carried on a great line of business to mutual advantage.

Redgauntlet 2008

Even our linendrapers mount the Royal Arms above their doors, as though that were proof that their sheets are safe to sleep in.

Flush: a biography 2004

He did not, it is true, profess a burning sympathy with the bank clerks in 1842 when they were agitating for a closure at 4 instead of 5 p.m., but he was wholeheartedly on the side of the shop assistants, especially in the ` linendrapers 'and milliners' establishments.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

Holding it to be his duty "to smash humbug of every description," Punch, after an examination of the financial proposals of the "free and happy" linendrapers, pronounces them guilty of very gross humbug in putting forward their prospectus.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

Perkins took his degree the linendrapers filed their petition in bankruptcy.

Of Human Bondage 1919

Athelny told Philip that he could easily get him something to do in the large firm of linendrapers in which himself worked.

Of Human Bondage 1919

ATHELNY told Philip that he could easily get him something to do in the large firm of linendrapers in which himself worked.

Of Human Bondage 1915

It was with greater satisfaction that they welcomed his success, since Perkins and Cooper had fallen upon evil days: Cooper drank like a fish, and just before Tom Perkins took his degree the linendrapers filed their petition in bankruptcy.

Of Human Bondage 1915

Holder's, the great linendrapers in Holborough market-place, and all made by Miss Mallow, the chief milliner and dressmaker of Holborough, who was in

The Lovels of Arden 1875