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  • You've got a new manty-maker, mother; where's Jane Morris, name o 'goodness?'

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • She was always a mighty good hand at it, an 'could cut out as nice as a born manty-maker.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

  • Carline Gallup was a manty-maker -- What, Kier? ruther apt to talk? well, I know she was; but then she used to be sewin ''t old Winkle's about half the time, and she know'd purty well what went on there: yes, I know sewin'-gals is ginerally tattlers ....

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887

  • ` ` to cast up to her that her father's a barber and has a pole at his door, and that she's but a manty-maker hersell!

    The Antiquary 1845

  • "It's but ower muckle to be doubted," echoed Mrs. Shortcake; -- "to cast up to her that her father's a barber and has a pole at his door, and that she's but a manty-maker hersell!

    The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

  • "It's but ower muckle to be doubted," echoed Mrs. Shortcake; -- "to cast up to her that her father's a barber and has a pole at his door, and that she's but a manty-maker hersell!

    The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • “It’s but ower muckle to be doubted,” echoed Mrs. Shortcake; — “to cast up to her that her father’s a barber and has a pole at his door, and that she’s but a manty-maker hersell!

    The Antiquary 1584

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