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Sally is near marriage — with an eminent woollen-draper in the Strand, if ye have a mind to it; for there are five or six of them there.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Sally has had a quarrel with her woollen-draper; and made my charmer lady-chancellor in it.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Pate, [30] the learned woollen-draper; Mr. Stratford went with me; six miles here is nothing: we left Pate after sunset, and were here before it was dark.
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Pate is supposed to have been the woollen-draper, “remarkable for his learning and good-nature,” who is mentioned by Steele in the Guardian, No. 141.
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William Pate, “bel esprit and woollen-draper,” as Swift called him, lived opposite the Royal Exchange.
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-- Ford's was the principal woollen-draper, linen-draper, and haberdasher's shop united; the shop first in size and fashion in the place.
Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001
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_Charles Fourier_ was the son of a woollen-draper at Besançon.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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Mr. Tothall, a woollen-draper, who lived in Tavistock-court, and was
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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Arbuthnot, previous to matriculating at Oxford, lodged with Pate, who gave him a letter of introduction to Dr. Charlett, Master of University College; and Pate is supposed to have been the woollen-draper, "remarkable for his learning and good-nature," who is mentioned by Steele in the Guardian, No. 141. 31.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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To-day I dined six miles out of town, with Will Pate, [30] the learned woollen-draper; Mr. Stratford went with me; six miles here is nothing: we left Pate after sunset, and were here before it was dark.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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