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We are shown into a miserable garret, and introduced to a vulgar, illiterate, cockneyfied, dirty, dandified linendraper's shopman, in the person of _Tittlebat Titmouse_.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841 Various
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If a linendraper's shop is to be turned into a state of "freedom and happiness" all day long, it may suit the shop-boys well enough, but it will not be quite so agreeable to the customers.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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He seeks immortality in an exact description of a linendraper's shop; if the shop conferred immortality it should be upon the linendraper who created the shop, and not on the novelist who described it.
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I have been shopping this morning, but I do not think I could have seen behind any milliner's or linendraper's counter a person like the hon. and learned gentleman the member for Taunton.
Faces and Places 1884
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They were an ironmonger's, a linendraper's, and a china shop, and in the last he told her she must wait until he came to fetch her with the cart in about an hour's time.
White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873
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Mrs. Bingham, although she could not entirely desert the linendraper's wife, whose husband was
Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872
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Mrs. Swanley, the linendraper's wife, was degraded and deposed.
Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872
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Mr. Stuart Rem named a linendraper's establishment near the pantiles, where a fair young woman served.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The bitter creature drew me at her heels into a linendraper's shop.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The bitter creature drew me at her heels into a linendraper's shop.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 7 George Meredith 1868
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