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Arthur Murphy, _The Upholsterer or What News_ (1758), I: i: "musing, moping, melancholy lover".
Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson
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The very subordinate part in the Miser of “Furnish, an Upholsterer,” was taken by a third-rate actor, whose surname has been productive of no little misconception among Henry Fielding's biographers.
Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883
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Tom Jones might be judged inferior to Joseph Andrews, because the Political Apothecary in the “Man of the Hill's” story has his prototype in the Coffee-House Politician, whose original is Addison's Upholsterer.
Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883
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The very subordinate part in the _Miser_ of "Furnish, an Upholsterer," was taken by a third-rate actor, whose surname has been productive of no little misconception among Henry Fielding's biographers.
Fielding Austin Dobson 1880
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Andrews_, because the Political Apothecary in the "Man of the Hill's" story has his prototype in the _Coffee-House Politician_, whose original is Addison's Upholsterer.
Fielding Austin Dobson 1880
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Upholsterer-bee, Anthocopa papaveris, who fashions her cells with poppy-petals.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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He wished to have his origin overlooked, to gain position under the new regime, to efface all memory of the expressive nick-name received from the Bourgogne peasantry, who called him the "Upholsterer."
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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Concealed behind a roadside well for the irrigation of a garden, the unintelligible Upholsterer, admiring.
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Hamilton: and shortly after my arrival called upon the Upholsterer.
The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney. Andrew Learmont Spedon 1857
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The Upholsterer continued: “Though a paper-hanger by trade, yet, sir, I am now satisfied that I am called to give up my business, and attend to something better; for you know, Mr. Hall, I should not bury my talents in a napkin.”
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847
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