I am a linendraper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calender Will lend his horse to go.
His father was a linendraper there,--a most extensive wholesale linendraper, says a short memoir of him affixed to a French selection from his poems.
However, in calling on the linendraper to tell him that she should not buy the dress, she had to turn away her head, that he might not see the tears which started to her eyes.
George Hudson was born in 1800, served his apprenticeship in the cathedral city of York and subsequently became a linendraper there and a man of property.
Whilst conducting in York his linendraper business, a relation died and left him money.
The linendraper wishes that there should be only one linendraper; the grocer only one grocer; and so on through all the trades.
Very well; don't you remember when we had only one linendraper how dear shirts used to be?
Yes, monsieur," answered the young man, looking at the linendraper with surprise mingled with uneasiness.
So, then, the linendraper who lives opposite is as learned as all that?
So stupefied was the Count of Plouernel at the transformation of the bearing, tone and language of the linendraper that he did not interrupt him.
Good father," said the linendraper to him, "your grandson has so good and so generous a heart that I give him my daughter, with whom he is crazily in love.
Their hearts gripped with apprehension, and drops of sweat standing out upon their foreheads, the linendraper and his son realized that some horrible spectacle was approaching, and remained motionless upon their threshold.
The moment, however, that the linendraper reached the door, he seemed to change his mind, scratched himself behind the ear, and returned to the Count of Plouernel.
The linendraper looked pale; there were tears in his eyes.
But, grandfather, I have told you the little that I know, and even that little I learned only while carpentering in the shop of Monsieur Lebrenn, the linendraper opposite us.
It passed as a bloody vision before the linendraper and his son.
The second portrait that likewise seemed to impress the linendraper keenly represented a woman clad in monastic garb.
His father was a linendraper at Bristol, and by no means prosperous in his calling.
To be born the son of a linendraper we hold to be no evil; but to have been bred up in the shop at Bristol would have been to Southey a real calamity.
The linendraper looks down on the huckster, the huckster on the mechanic, and the mechanic on the day labourer.
But the linendraper also has plenty of people beneath him.
Thus the aristocratic affair of honour was more fortunate in its issue than that plebeian one in which, two or three years before, the young linendraper Mirfin had received his mortal "satisfaction.
The former had been a linendraper in Tottenham Court Road; and, together with the latter, seemed to have led the dissolute life, for some time, of men about town.
Watt replied: “If linendraper Moore does not use my engines to drive his chaises, he can’t drive them by steam.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "linendraper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
