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• “Lady two: Yeah, I know the IT guy told me that the cobler blog was recommending we stay away from Dell.”

  Dear Mr. Dell « BuzzMachine

• “I cannot help observing here the art of the poet in letting us into the condition of Taylor: we may guess from his being pressed that he was not free of the city, and was most likely a journeyman cobler, coblers being famous for their glee.”

  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810

• “A cobler who has been used to rear canary-birds for Mad. de”

  A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

• “No respect is paid to any person; the cobler on that day thinks himself equal to the parson, who generally gets mounted like the rest of his flock; whilst one of his porters _boasts and prides himself_ in having, but just before, got the _Squire_ across the pole.”

  A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide

• “Larrey or Laurie Miller was an old tailor in Keate's Lane who used to sit on his open shop-board, facing the street, a mark for the compliments of passing boys; as frolicsome youngsters in the days of Addison and Steele, as High School lads in the days of Walter Scott, were accustomed to "smoke the cobler.”

  Biographical Study of A W Kinglake

• “There is scarce a plough jogger or country cobler that has read our Psalms and can make two lines jingle, who has not once in his life at least exercised his talent in this way.”

  Customs and Fashions in Old New England

• “Lane who used to sit on his open shop-board, facing the street, a mark for the compliments of passing boys; as frolicsome youngsters in the days of Addison and Steele, as High School lads in the days of Walter Scott, were accustomed to "smoke the cobler.”

  Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake

• “As Viney sipped his sherry-cobler of an evening, he laughed at the idea of a son-of-a-day-labourer like himself raising such a dust.”

  Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

• “Fox (George) an illiterate cobler, first beginner and head of the”

  Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.

• “French flag, and heard clipping bad Spanish, after listening to the speech of a patriotic cobler of Cadiz, on the event of his own entry into that city, and the exit of some five thousand bold Britons out of this 'best of all possible worlds' [Pangloss, in _Candide_].”

  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2

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