trunk-makers

This is a convenient doctrine for me I meditate acting upon it with reference to the Roman, so I trust nobody in Cornhill will dispute its validity or affirm that ‘poetry’ has a value, except for trunk-makers.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

Was not my valise, there, bought in Rome at the street of trunk-makers?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

The benignity of Providence is nowhere more strongly marked than in its compensations; and what can be more beautiful than the arrangement by which the same harmless disinterestedness of matter and style that once made an author the favorite of trunk-makers and grocers should, by thus leading to the quiet absorption of his works, make them sure of commemoration by Brunet or Lowndes and of commanding famine-prices under the hammer?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

I sent it to the trunk-makers, telling them to take the greatest care of it.

Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

He was not much better off than the man who carried all his clothes on his back, and so proclaimed himself independent of trunk-makers.

Rufus and Rose Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready Horatio Alger 1865

My books at least have the peculiar advantage of being always new; and it is my way to clear off my old to the trunk-makers every season.

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860

Chinese signboards; paper-sellers, ironmongers, and perfumery and spices, silks and cottons, and shoes and hats, and trunk-makers and workers in leather, -- indeed it is useless to enumerate all the trades there carried on.

Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

In a lofty room of spacious dimensions, are seated some eighty or a hundred guests knocking little pewter measures on the tables, and hammering away, with the handles of their knives, as if they were so many trunk-makers.

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

CHAPTER I. Etchings of Hyde Park in the month of June, which, if this history escapes those villains the trunk-makers, may be of inestimable value to unborn antiquarians.

What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

CHAPTER I. Etchings of Hyde Park in the month of June, which, if this history escapes those villains the trunk-makers, may be of inestimable value to unborn antiquarians.

What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838