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  • Mary had a busy schedule, and Miss Marchmont accompanied her faithfully to shoemakers, hosiers, hatters, and leatherworkers, even to the haughty Madame Clothilde, who received them with grave condescension at a tiny shop in Montague Street.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • Mary had a busy schedule, and Miss Marchmont accompanied her faithfully to shoemakers, hosiers, hatters, and leatherworkers, even to the haughty Madame Clothilde, who received them with grave condescension at a tiny shop in Montague Street.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • Mary had a busy schedule, and Miss Marchmont accompanied her faithfully to shoemakers, hosiers, hatters, and leatherworkers, even to the haughty Madame Clothilde, who received them with grave condescension at a tiny shop in Montague Street.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • Then, the hosiers were infected, and began to pull down their shop – fronts with frantic recklessness.

    Sketches by Boz 2007

  • Dorrit caused him to be measured for new raiment by the hosiers, tailors, hatters, and bootmakers whom he called in for himself; and ordered that his old clothes should be taken from him and burned.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • A frame smith, making his usual inspection of hosiers 'frames at workmen's dwellings in Nottingham, after thus spending a fortnight, found his health had begun to suffer from the squalid wretchedness of their abodes.

    Recent Developments in European Thought Various

  • This is further to acquaint the town, that the report that the hosiers, toymen, and milliners, have compounded with Mr. Bickerstaff for tolerating such enormities, is utterly false and scandalous.

    The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

  • This taking in hand meant principally marching me off to the tailors and hosiers to order new clothes.

    A Queen's Error Henry Curties

  • If he could only get his portrait published in a halfpenny paper wearing some new-shaped stock or collar that the hosiers were anxious to bring into fashion, he would feel that there was little left to live for.

    Austin and His Friends Frederic H. Balfour

  • The next range of booths was occupied by stuff-merchants, hosiers, lacemen, milliners, and furriers; here one vender has been known to receive from

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 Various

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