silk-weaver

He was bound by a friend, in whose hands his father left his fortune, to a silk-weaver at Norwich, with whom he lived about three years; but his master restraining his extravagancies, and taking great pains to keep him within the bounds of moderation, Jackson at last grew so uneasy that he ran away from his master, and absconded for some time.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

Ebenezer Picken was the only son of a silk-weaver in Paisley, who bore the same Christian name.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

The first print presents us with a noble and striking contrast in two apprentices at the looms of their master, a silk-weaver of Spitalfields: in the one we observe a serene and open countenance, the distinguishing mark of innocence; and in the other a sullen, down-cast look, the index of a corrupt mind and vicious heart.

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

He originally followed the occupation of a silk-weaver, in Paisley, which he early relinquished for the less irksome duties of a hotel-keeper in Glasgow.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

He had in early youth been deprived of his parents, and carried on the trade of silk-weaver, hereditary, so to say, in his family; a trade lucrative enough in former years, but even then beginning to decline, yet not to such a degree, that a clever workman was not able to make an honest livelihood by it.

Chapter II 1909

Nevertheless, though some times induced to return the confidence which Gertrude reposed in her, yet she carefully avoided any mention of her fresh causes of alarm, of her new misfortune, and of the ties which bound her to the escaped silk-weaver, lest she should run any risk of spreading a report so full of her shame and sorrow.

Chapter XVIII 1909

This announcement, together with the circumstance that Renzo would just have arrived at Milan on the fatal day, occasioned a good deal of disquietude to the women, and especially to Lucia; but what must it have been, when the portress came to tell them—‘It is a man from your very village who has escaped being hung—a silk-weaver, of the name of Tramaglino; do you know him?

Chapter XVIII 1909

One may live anywhere; and, at Bergamo, not far from here, a silk-weaver would be received with open arms.

Chapter VI 1909

Here he apprenticed himself to a silk-weaver, and became an efficient member of the association of

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

If an immigrant, in his former estate, had been a silk-weaver, efforts were made to establish his industry and give it public support.

Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft Frank Jenne Cannon 1902