cotton-spinners

Here and there I saw people thick-set and fat, dressed like the cotton-spinners whom I once saw near the frontiers of the three kings.

The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954

Can you not, out of the inexhaustible wealth of your islands, find wherewithal to stave off the bitter need, for a season, of your cotton-spinners?

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

In 1837, the great cotton-spinners 'conspiracy, which led to the memorable trial, had kept above twenty thousand persons in Lanarkshire, for four months, in a state of compulsory destitution.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

Was it very likely that the landlord or the farmer should quit their honourable and important avocations at the bidding of such creatures as had thus intruded themselves into their counties? should consent to be yoked to the car, or to follow in the train of these enlightened, disinterested, and philanthropic cotton-spinners and calico-printers?

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

We were a nation of soldiers, and sailors, and patriots; not of mingled cotton-spinners, and railway speculators, and angry protectionists.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Various

Men who, in the wilds of Ireland or the mountains of Scotland, were making three or four shillings a-week, or in Sussex ten, suddenly found themselves, as cotton-spinners, iron-moulders, colliers, or mechanics, in possession of from twenty to thirty shillings.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

Federals and Confederates, rich cotton-spinners from Rhode Island and farmers from thousand-acre granges in the West, are obliged to mingle and please each other.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various

She came, she said, of Lancashire folk -- wealthy cotton-spinners, who still kept the broadened _a_ and slurred aspirate of the old stock.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

The president of this Society, Mr. Potter, spent thirty thousand dollars in the cause, and at a time when times were hard and fortunes as well as cotton-spinners in distress through our blockade.

A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge Owen Wister 1899

Alabama and the London Times, and avert them from Bright, and Cobden, and the cotton-spinners, and the Union and Emancipation Society, and Queen Victoria.

A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge Owen Wister 1899