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Courts of Justice and the gentlemen of the law; while the outer division was occupied by the stalls of stationers, toymen, and the like, as in a modern bazaar.

Redgauntlet 2008

This is further to acquaint the town, that the report that the hosiers, toymen, and milliners, have compounded with Mr. Bickerstaff for tolerating such enormities, is utterly false and scandalous.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

He began admirably, as a doctor with a speculative eye should do, by building a large house with an assembly room for dancing and music, "and other rooms for raffling, diceing, fairchance (what a perversion of terms!) and all sorts of gaming; together with shops for milliners, jewellers, toymen, etc."

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

English gentleman who, eighty years ago, had travelled by slow stages to Italy and been waited on at his inn by persuasive toymen.

A Passionate Pilgrim Henry James 1879

There came to me, as I looked, a sudden vision of the young English gentleman, who, eighty years ago, had travelled by slow stages to Italy and been waited on at his inn by persuasive toymen.

A passionate pilgrim 1875

Here, too, commerce shouldered aristocracy, and the New Exchange of King James's time competed with the Middle Exchange of later date, providing more milliners, perfumers, glovers, barbers, and toymen, and more opportunity for illicit loves and secret meetings.

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

Milliners, toymen, and jewellers came down from London, and opened a bazaar under the trees.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

But I will tell you what I have done: Deard, one of the first jewellers and toymen Here, has undertaken to make a watch and chain, enamelled according to a pattern I have chosen of the newest kind, for a hundred guineas; with two seals for sixteen more; and he has engaged that, if this is not approved, he will keep it himself; but to this I must have an immediate answer.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757

From the bookseller’s shop, we make a tour through the milliners and toymen; and commonly stop at Mr

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

[The Hall of the Parliament House of Edinburgh was, in former days, divided into two unequal portions by a partition, the inner side of which was consecrated to the use of the Courts of Justice and the gentlemen of the law; while the outer division was occupied by the stalls of stationers, toymen, and the like, as in a modern bazaar.

Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801