stay-maker

“Should Bonaparte ask, tell him I've gone to the stay-maker's.”

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

“Should Bonaparte ask, tell him I've gone to the stay-maker's.”

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

Butcher-hall-lane, was formerly the gathering place of a set of old school bibliopoles, who styled themselves the Free and Easy Counsellors under the Cauliflower; stay-maker Hugh Kelly, Goldsmith, Ossian

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 Various

He had been put out apprentice to a stay-maker, attained to a great proficiency in his trade; and by the help of his friends, who were very willing to lend him their assistance, he might have done very well in the world if it had not been for that unfortunate inclination to roving, which continually possessed him.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

Madame was a stay-maker; and the whole care and responsibility of providing for the wants and comforts of a sick husband; for her little Victor, her eldest born; and the monthly stipend of her infant Henri, out at nurse some hundred leagues from Paris, hung upon the unaided exertions of her single hands, and the scrupulous and wonderful economy of her management.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

It appears that Margaret Reay was the daughter of a stay-maker in Covent-garden, and served her apprenticeship to a mantuamaker.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

Originally a Quaker and stay-maker in Norfolk, Paine first made himself known as a political writer by the publication of a pamphlet.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

[334] 'This person, it is said, was a stay-maker, but being a man of wit and parts he betook himself to study, and at a time when the discipline of the inns of court was scandalously lax, got himself called to the Bar, and practised at the quarter-sessions under me, but with little success.

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Political and anti-Christian writer, son of a stay-maker and small farmer of Quaker principles at Thetford, became with large classes perhaps the most unpopular man in England.

A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature 1853

Quotum, a stay-maker, and parish-clerk of Saint Peter le

The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828