trunk-maker

This somewhat may be indeed resembled to the famous trunk-maker in the playhouse; for, whenever the person who is possessed of it doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

The rest of his salary was spent among the boxes of books which line the parapet of the Paris quays, -- a sort of literary Morgue or dead-house, where the still-born and deceased children of the press are exhibited, to challenge the pity of passers-by, and so escape the corner grocer and the neighboring trunk-maker.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

A long time must elapse after an author's death, before we can pronounce with perfect certainty what belongs to the trunk-maker, and what pertains to posterity.

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

People with _macadamized minds_, and their histories (scarce as the originals are) are mere nonentities, and food for the trunk-maker; whereas a book of hair-breadth escapes, thrilling with horror and romantic narrative will tempt people to sit up reading in their beds, till like Rousseau, they are reminded of morning by the stone-chatters at their window.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 347, December 20, 1828 Various

There is thus at least a remnant saved from the relentless trunk-maker.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

This somewhat may be indeed resembled to the famous trunk-maker in the playhouse; for, whenever the person who is possessed of it doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.

VI. An Apology for the Insensibility of Mr. Jones. Book IV 1917

You remember the little maid that you put straight out o 'the house, and the trunk-maker to whom you gave a beating!

The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

And then one man -- a trunk-maker -- has made a glass trunk as big as a house, and shows off his exhibits there.

Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

Even the poor little trunk, with the name of the Rouen trunk-maker, Mrs. Sheldon dwelt upon with graphic insistence.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

The banyan-tree is the most enterprising trunk-maker I ever heard of.

A Jolly Fellowship Frank Richard Stockton 1868