I was surprised to find that my shoes fitted me perfectly, but I heard afterwards that he employed the same bootmaker as I did.
I called the waiter who attended to us, and told him to go and fetch a bootmaker with an assortment of shoes.
On my way to the hotel I bought several pairs of silk stockings, and took with me a bootmaker who lived close by.
No bootmaker would allow an unpractised beginner to hack his leather about in a jejune attempt to construct a pair of shoes.
Then there was a bootmaker to whom Whistler owed money, and who appeared with his bill, refusing to move unless he was paid.
The bootmaker was so charmed that he spoke no more of his bill, but took another order on the spot, and made new shoes into the bargain.
In his correspondence he was as scrupulous, and we have known him make a rough draft of a letter to his bootmaker in Paris, and ask us to dictate it to him while he wrote his fair copy, as a final touch addressing it to M.
Whistler was courtesy itself, and, regretting his momentary embarrassment, begged the bootmaker to accept an engraving of Garibaldi, which he ventured to admire.
The tailor persists in telling his customer how his breeches should be made, and after what fashion they should be worn; but the bootmaker will take his orders meekly.
The bootmaker shook his head dubiously: he knew Samud's mother was not well off and that it would be foolish of her to allow such extravagance in her son.
Monsieur Benoit was at once the landlord, the bootmaker and the money lender of his lodgers.
However, if the landlord and the bootmaker are inclined to be hasty, I would ask the friend to get them to listen to reason.
Here, so the bootmaker tells, came one morning a ruined man, who after speaking a few words to the Padre, produced a revolver and tried to shoot himself.
And the bootmaker would growl and shake his head over his last; for, like most who have to do with leather, he was a man of small humour.
The bootmaker for the theatre brought me these things to try if I could walk in them, until a pair can be made to measure.
How a Bootmaker of Brunswick larded Owlglass's Boots; and how he was paid for doing so.
How a Bootmaker of Brunswick larded Owlglass's Boots; and how he was paid for doing so 56 XIV.
When the bootmaker had recovered a little from his surprise, he exclaimed, "Get out of that, you scoundrel, or you will have my last at your head.
Then the bootmaker was in a rage with his man, and said, "You gave me advice before; now advise me what I am to do to make my window whole again.
In vain I tried to get into them, and called the bootmaker to show him that none of them would fit me.
A few hours later, Pauline said to me at breakfast, "Betty, I think I shall tell that bootmaker to make me two pairs of boots and two pairs of shoes.
The bootmaker evidently thought that a foot like Pauline's was worthy of a good boot and Pauline said there were occasions on which one had to sink one's own feelings.
There cannot be a bootmaker without a house for his work built on land, without water, air, and tools to work with.
She has the same interest in seeing Ireland prosperous that a bootmaker has in learning from his farmer client that the crops are good.
But if the bootmaker were to insist on having his finger in the farmer's pie, the pie, destined for the bootmaker's own appetite, would not be improved.
But there should be a bootmakerin Parliament soon;--and thus he plucked up his courage.
He believed thoroughly that had not his wife interfered, and asked the bootmaker to join that unfortunate dinner party, his daughter and Ralph Newton would now have been engaged together.
Could Moggs have read her mind, he might have known that success, as from the bootmaker against the gentleman, was by no means so hopeless an affair.
But a bootmakercan make a speech sometimes as well as,--as well as a peer of Parliament.
A very disagreeable old man," said Sir Thomas, when they had left the house, thinking that as Mr. Trigger had been grossly insulted by the bootmaker he would probably coincide in this opinion.
The first bootmaker had very little to say for himself, and hardly gave Sir Thomas much opportunity of preaching his doctrine of purity.
And then there came across Waddle's mind an idea which he could not express,--that of course no girl would put up with a bootmaker who could have a real gentleman.
He is a bootmaker by his trade; and I've never said anything about taking him.
Hoby was bootmaker to the Duke of Kent; and, as he was calling on H.
He was bootmaker to the Duke of Wellington from his boyhood, and received innumerable orders in the duke's handwriting, both from the Peninsula and France, which he always religiously preserved.
We had expected the bootmaker to leave us on the threshold, but he stalked gravely in our rear, and introduced himself to the lawyer's clerks as a friend of the family.
The bootmaker had arrived from Lorca hunting for work.
To our relief the bootmaker sauntered on towards the town.
But he repelled the good intentions of his Honor the Squire, though he needed some kind of help badly enough, for the "bootmaker of God" was very meagerly provided with worldly goods.
Well, sir, that is not impossible, such a plain common old bootmaker like myself is capable of doing anything.
But he was not in vain the "bootmaker of God," otherwise He, his only customer, would not have come to his rescue at a time of his greatest need.
But it is true that he sat very little on his stool, and he was called for that reason "the bootmaker to God" because he had practically no customers at all.
There was a German bootmaker who had just set up in OUR town in those days, who afterwards made his fortune in London.
The bootmaker had detected him in swindling, and so his niece refused him.
You don’t bring your bootmaker home to dine with Judge Wright, or Honorable Senator Rider.
When my bootmaker fits himself for the society of those you name, he will be welcomed by them, and his early history referred to as an honor, not disgrace.
Herr Lippheim is undoubtedly warm-hearted and, in his own way, intelligent, but he is as unfit to be Karen's husband as your bootmaker to be yours.
Your bootmakermay be warm-hearted and intelligent.
He was now liable to the vulgarest persecution from the vulgar herd; his very tailor and bootmaker would beleaguer him, and coarse unwashed bailiffs take him by the collar.
Nor need we expressly name the bootmaker to whom is confided the task of making those feet 'small by degrees and beautifully less.
Beaudenord's bootmaker had precisely hit off his style of foot; he was well shod; his tailor loved to clothe him.
You know the wages you get and you know the wages a bootmaker like you could get in one of the big shops in Manchester.
You wed her, and you'll be an eighteen shilling a week bootmaker all the days of your life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bootmaker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
