chair-mending

The neighbourhood of Holmhurst had for some weeks past been honoured by the presence of a gang of gipsies, who during the period of their sojourn had rendered themselves conspicuous by their diligence in their triple business of chair-mending, fowl-house robbing, and fortune - telling.

Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872

Where does the lark sing, the corn grow, the mill turn, the river run, and they are not among the lights and shadows, tinkering, chair-mending, umbrella-mending, clock-mending, knife-grinding?

The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

Among all the innumerable occupations that cannot possibly be transacted without the assistance of lookers-on, chair-mending may take a station in the first rank.

The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

Very agreeable, too, to go on a chair-mending tour.

The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

Where does the lark sing, the corn grow, the mill turn, the river run, and they are not among the lights and shadows, tinkering, chair-mending, umbrella-mending, clock-mending, knife-grinding?

The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

Among all the innumerable occupations that cannot possibly be transacted without the assistance of lookers-on, chair-mending may take a station in the first rank.

The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

Very agreeable, too, to go on a chair-mending tour.

The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

Paper Poll, as the servants call her, is hardly out of sight, and not out of hearing, when a young fellow and his wife come clattering along the pavement, appealing to all who may require their good offices in the matter of chair-mending.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 Various 1836