tea-blender

The paternal purse was closed, and perhaps not too early, for the improvidence of the tea-blender and Alice's fecundity were a gulf whose depth no munificence could have plumbed.

Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899

And happen a bit of money'll come in handy to th 'old parson tea-blender, by all accounts.'

Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899

Meshach inquired about Alice in Australia, and was told that things were in a specially bad way with the tea-blender.

Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899

Seven years elapsed so, and then the parson gave up his holy calling and became a tea-blender in Brisbane.

Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899

The sleepy-eyed tea-blender of Mark Lane remained plunged in a deep reverie during the greater part of the journey to town, and on arrival at King's Cross declined to allow me to accompany him.

The Seven Secrets William Le Queux 1895