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That fiddling, parading fellow [you know who I mean] made us wait for him two hours, and I to go to a journey I disliked! only for the sake of having a little more tawdry upon his housings; which he had hurried his sadler to put on, to make him look fine, being to escort his dear Madam Howe, and her fair daughter.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Enoch sowing clover seed in the lower field Licklider the sadler sent a
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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John Smith the sadler called I paid the balance of his account $24.67 1/2 and took his receipt on the account.
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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Burgram, sadler, toward the west, and upon a lane there called Maiden Lane towards the south, with all the houses ....
Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913
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Occasionally he played a game of chess with Parson Fisher, the jolly ex-clergyman, or smoked a pipe with the sadler-postmaster; he attended all the East Patten tea-parties, too, but he made himself so uniformly agreeable to all the ladies that the mothers in Israel agreed with many sighs, that the major was not a marrying man.
Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881
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Dear Sir, -- Some time ago I gave Mitchell the sadler [_sic_] a letter for you, requesting his bill might be paid from the Balance of the
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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[William Burns was the youngest brother of the poet: he was bred a sadler; went to Longtown, and finally to London, where he died early.] _Isle, March 25th, 1789.
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That fiddling, parading fellow [you know who I mean] made us wait for him two hours, and I to go to a journey I disliked! only for the sake of having a little more tawdry upon his housings; which he had hurried his sadler to put on, to make him look fine, being to escort his dear Madam Howe, and her fair daughter.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725
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-- P. [260] 'Dennis rage:' Mr John Dennis was the son of a sadler in London, born in 1657.
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716
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Mr. Barwell, squire sadler to the King, and there we and several other
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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