linen-drapery

But law, stockbroking, polemical theology, linen-drapery, apothecary-business, and the like, how can writers manage fully to develop these in their stories?

The Virginians 2006

Then Mrs. Bonner invested money in some bargains in linen-drapery, which might be useful at the Clavering Arms, and bought a red and yellow neck-handkerchief, which Blanche could see at once was intended for Mr. Lightfoot.

The History of Pendennis 2006

And then went farther into the town, and there the fellow, being spoken to by one of his familiars, lost her for a few minutes: but he soon saw her come out of a linen-drapery shop, attended with a servant-maid, having, as it proved, got that maid-servant to go with her to the house she is now at.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

It made no difference my knowing that the young fellows who went past the hotel every day on horseback were the sons of the questionably solvent proprietor of a linen-drapery to whom my father would never have dreamed of speaking; the glamour of

Within a Budding Grove 2003

Accordingly, there appeared in the _Nottingham Herald_ an advertisement, extending across two columns, headed with imposing capitals, by which the public were informed that Mrs Hodgett being about to decline her long-established linen-drapery business in favour of Mr

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

He wrote off immediately to his mother, entreating her, by her hopes of his advancement in life, not to allow the name of Hodgett to be any longer contaminated by any touch of linen-drapery.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

'It's damned hard, but you can't expect the man to take her out of her linen-drapery for nothing.'

A Mummer's Wife 1892

"What could possess him to imagine that we should ever get over the shop -- granted that it is a Brobdingnagian shop, an imposing mart of linen-drapery, haberdashery, silk-mercery enough to serve the whole county?"

A Houseful of Girls Sarah Tytler 1870

Mr. Kendal was just aware that there was a prodigious commotion, but he knew that all ladies were subject to linen-drapery epidemics, and

The Young Step-Mother Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

In its place was a handsome shop, fast approaching to a state of completion, and on the shutters were large bills, informing the public that it would shortly be opened with 'an extensive stock of linen-drapery and haberdashery.'

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