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But the stylistic shots of his chuck taylor's did.
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His comings in are like a taylor's, from the shreds of bread, [the] chippings and remnants of a broken crust; excepting his vails from the barrel, which poor folks buy for their hogs but drink themselves.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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Poor Queeney's [1302] sore eyes have just released her; she had a long confinement, and could neither read nor write, so my master [1303] treated her very good-naturedly with the visits of a young woman in this town, a taylor's daughter, who professes musick, and teaches so as to give six lessons a day to ladies, at five and threepence a lesson.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Ireland, who at the age of 109, was able to work at the taylor's trade without spectacles; and what renders this case more remarkable, he was naturally very intemperate, and would get drunk as often as he could get liquor.
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John Drakes had no time to go to the taylor's till
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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John Drakes, a shoemaker of that town, coming to this said taylor's, and seeing the knight's gown cloth lying there, liking it well, caused the taylor to buy him as much of the same cloth and price to the same intent, and further bade him to _make it of the same fashion that the knight would have his made of_.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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Not long after, the knight coming to the taylor's to take measure of his gown, perceiving the like cloth lying there, asked of the taylor whose it was?
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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This knight bought on a time as much fine French tawny cloth as should make him a gown, and sent it to the taylor's to be made.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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I could really write as long a letter on a taylor's measure, as your last hurry-begotten note.
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Poor Queeney's [1302] sore eyes have just released her; she had a long confinement, and could neither read nor write, so my master [1303] treated her very good-naturedly with the visits of a young woman in this town, a taylor's daughter, who professes musick, and teaches so as to give six lessons a day to ladies, at five and threepence a lesson.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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