tailor

• But luckily, Mr. Frog the tailor was the last one to leave. —  The Tale of Kiddie Katydid
• CALF-LOVE Bonny lassie, will ye go, will ye go, will ye go Bonny lassie, will ye go to the Birks of Aberfeldy BURNS For a tailor is a man, a man, a man And a tailor is a man Popular Heroic Song V. CURSECOWL From his red poll a redder cowl hung down His jacket, if through grease we guess, was brown A vigorous scamp, some forty summers old Rough Shetland stockings up his thighs were roll'd While at his side horn-handled steels and knives Gleam'd from his pouch, and thirsted for sheep's lives ODOHERTY'S Miscellanea Classica VI. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
• As the tailor was about to sew a beautiful dress, there was no silk of the same color to be found. —  Italian Popular Tales
• Wantchee new clothes At four o'clock the tailor is there with a bundle of patterns from which you select a thin serge and a white flannel, and order a suit of each. —  Life and sport in China Second Edition
• Whether he thought it sailor-like, or whether his tailor was afraid of putting his lordship to short allowance of cloth, for fear of phlogistic consequences, I know not; but broad as was the beam of his lordship, still broader and more ample in proportion were the folds of this essential part of his drapery, quite enough to have embraced twice the volume of human flesh contained within them, large as it undoubtedly was That "a stitch in time saves nine," is a wise saw, unhappily, like many others of the same thrifty kind, but little heeded in this our day. —  Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer

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