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Example sentences for "shoemaker"

Lexicographically close words:
shoe; shoeblack; shoed; shoeing; shoeless; shoemakers; shoemaking; shoes; shoestrings; shogun
  1. It is well to get your shoemaker to cut out for you the size and form, in a piece of paper.

  2. Having obtained from your shoemaker a paper or shape, (allowed extremely large,) lay it down on the canvas, and mark out the form and size by a pen or pencil outline.

  3. And thus when a shoemaker is learning his trade it is no pleasure to stand by and observe him, but the shoe is useful, and moreover not unpleasing to behold.

  4. The poor shoemaker had no order or system in his household.

  5. I do not concern myself about others' affairs, and think ill of no one; but if the host and the shoemaker are jealous of him, they must have their reasons.

  6. Have you heard nothing of this encounter between the shoemaker and the host?

  7. His tone was conciliatory, but the shoemaker sniffed.

  8. They were together in the shop one evening, and a customer came in for his evening loaf; the shoemaker it was, Jere Cargo, a man of dry, critical humor.

  9. Well," said the shoemaker with a laugh, "what's wrong with you?

  10. For a long time the shoemaker made no reply; then he scratched his head in perplexed fashion.

  11. It is everything in its favour," said the shoemaker with a sigh of relief.

  12. Just at the critical moment when the apparition of the shoemaker rose above the waves, it fell within the length of his grasp.

  13. I was the only child of a poor shoemaker in St. Alban's.

  14. Perhaps they felt that it was not necessary any longer now that the shoemaker was prosperous.

  15. The shoemaker now had plenty of money, but he was not proud.

  16. The shoemaker and his wife could not tell how it happened.

  17. Now the shoemaker bought leather for four pairs of shoes, and again they were finished for him in the morning and customers came by and bought them.

  18. No matter how many shoes the shoemaker cut out and laid on the floor, they were all ready for the customer the next day.

  19. Now this is a story about a poor shoemaker who worked very hard and paid his debts and lived peaceably with his neighbors.

  20. The shoemaker had been made an infidel, as many are, by hard work and poor pay, by want of human sympathy, by the greatness of his life-long sorrow.

  21. As the Vicar left the apartment of Carroty Bill he knocked at the next door, inhabited by a hard-working shoemaker of freethought tendencies, who hated him and all his ways.

  22. It would be just as reasonable to call the shoemaker a mediator between the production and consumption of leather; or the cloth merchant, who cuts the material from the piece, an assistant preparatory to the tailor.

  23. Thus, for instance, that all the customers of a shoemaker together form a shoe-association etc.

  24. On the other hand, the shoemaker contributes only very indirectly to the general security which the law affords, by protecting the judge’s foot.

  25. But the peasant himself was the weaver, fuller, dyer, tanner, shoemaker etc.

  26. We commiserated greatly the misfortunes of our poor companion, and feared that even the shoemaker would discover what he was, as he spoke French so very indifferently.

  27. At the public-house there was a shoemaker at work for the family, and they had the kindness to allow him to repair our shoes.

  28. Eliab watched him closely all the first day; on the second desired to help, and before the month had passed was as good a shoemaker as his teacher.

  29. When he was about fifteen a shoemaker came to the house to do our plantation work.

  30. The shoemaker had, I suppose, taken him from the nest, and taught him from tenderest infancy.

  31. The shoemaker did not exhibit his friend's accomplishments to the casual or the indifferent.

  32. The worst of it was that the unaccommodating shoemaker had a way of watching his rivals with a vicious eye, while drawing the sharp blade of his knife across the whetstone.

  33. As you entered the shop, you saw against the wall a large cage decorated with rude carvings, on which the shoemaker had lavished all the fancy of his art.

  34. Our little shoemaker stood looking through the window with a pleasure nearly allied to that which had once enchained him before the picture-shops.

  35. He inquired what Bill had in hand now; and our little shoemaker having told him, he burst into a loud laugh, and declared he could do better for him than that.

  36. Greatly did our little shoemaker enjoy his childish liberty on this evening, which passed away too rapidly for him.

  37. Our little shoemaker well knew where to apply for such strength as he needed.

  38. Our little shoemaker did as he was desired, and an elderly serving-woman almost immediately answered the summons.

  39. While the prospects of our little shoemaker were thus improved, he was by no means so dazzled by his comparative prosperity as to forget his old friends.

  40. Our hero explained in as few words as possible; at the close of which narration Mr. Stewart, making no remark, turned once more to his easel, and George conducted the little shoemaker to the room where he was to leave the shoes.

  41. Seeing there was no one left to work, Mr. Walters assented, and with great joy of heart the little shoemaker prepared to enjoy his long-anticipated festival.

  42. The shoemaker to whom he was apprenticed had once been a different man from what he was at present.

  43. Is Amyot, a shoemaker who might tie the bows of his shoes, the man to defy him to his face?

  44. His bride was the daughter of a shoemaker in London; in her, said Swedenborg, the life of heaven shone brightly, and she had gone through the first tests.

  45. But you won't find his equal as a shoemaker all the world over.

  46. And now you are a shoemaker too, in the biggest workshop in the town!

  47. When the talk's about the Court shoemaker Petersen always gets like one possessed," she said, when he had overcome it.

  48. And he must be ready day and night lest some small shoemaker who muddled along without assistance should suddenly have more to do than he could manage.

  49. When the Court shoemaker had gone, Ellen came slowly back and laid her arm round Pelle's shoulders.

  50. So Nikas decided to marry, and to set up as a master shoemaker in the north.

  51. V Pelle had got out his old tools and started as shoemaker to the dwellers in his street.

  52. And there was really no reason why he should not shake off the Court shoemaker as well; the journeymen saw to the measuring and the cutting-out; indeed, they did the whole work.

  53. It was a slack season, and, just as it was at its very worst, shoemaker Bohn returned and opened a shop on the marketplace.

  54. He proved to be nothing but a little shoemaker down in the village, who spoke at the meeting-house on Sundays; and it was also said that his wife drank.

  55. If the Court shoemaker hadn't spoken the words that drove him to join the Union he would still have been standing apart from it all, like a heathen.

  56. The shoemaker of the Baptist community had just died, and he could get plenty of customers by joining the sect; he was already attending their services.

  57. One wouldn't believe you've got a shoemaker for a brother!

  58. The variety of Lye’s tasks certainly surpasses those of the average shoemaker of these days.

  59. John Adam Dagyr, “the Celebrated Shoemaker of Essex,” had taught his fellow workers of Lynn how to make shoes equal to the best imported from London and Paris.

  60. Joseph Lye, a shoemaker and soldier of the Revolution, and Ann Hart.

  61. In it the Lyes made a comfortable living, first Joseph Lye, shoemaker and soldier of the Revolution, and then his son, Joseph, shoemaker and diarist.

  62. The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago As Shown by the Diary of Joseph Lye, Shoemaker By FRED A.

  63. He married a daughter of Joseph Lye, the shoemaker and soldier of the Revolution.

  64. So the shoemaker lived, untroubled, to a ripe old age.

  65. As soon as he died the little shoemaker trudged up to heaven and knocked timidly at the golden gate.

  66. Then he and St. Peter went on their way and the shoemaker returned to his cottage.

  67. I'll be ready in a moment," the shoemaker said, "Just let me put a last stitch in these shoes.

  68. The shoemaker was an industrious little man and yet with so many mouths to fill he remained poor.

  69. The king rewarded the shoemaker royally and to this day the shoemaker is wandering merrily about from place to place.

  70. When the shoemaker got back to the gate, the little devil of a guard wagged his head and blinked his eyes.

  71. When the shoemaker got back to the gate, the little devil of a guard said: "I see you've got the red rooster.

  72. One day when he had slaughtered beef, the poor shoemaker came to him and said: "My dear Godfather, you have just made a killing.

  73. The shoemaker thanked the little devil of a guard for his good advice and, putting the clubs in his bag, climbed back to earth.

  74. The devil waited for the shoemaker outside the town gate.

  75. The devil agreed to this and the shoemaker put his mark on the contract.

  76. Instantly a fine supper appeared and the shoemaker ate and drank his fill.

  77. Give me Some Dew For Meadow For Grass For Cow For Cream For Brewer For Malt For Sow For Bristles For Shoemaker For Slippers For Dressmaker For Kerchief For Well For Water For Rooster!

  78. The devils in great fright scurried about and locked and barred all the gates, and the little shoemaker when he arrived could not get in.

  79. On the part of the shoemaker go his wife, a stout laborer, and her aged mother, who has reached her eightieth year, and who generally goes begging.

  80. During that week I said a few words to him as I passed on two occasions and in the course of my strolls, I went to a shoemaker of my acquaintance, and proposed that he should take the lad as an apprentice.

  81. This passage has been referred to in several Free Church presbyteries, as if the writer had affirmed that the schoolmaster stands on no higher level than the shoemaker or tailor.

  82. The money given by the magician had long since come to an end, for the shoemaker had spent it all in drink.

  83. The shoemaker mounted and rode into the town.

  84. The shoemaker threw himself on the ground to pick them up, and forgot both the horse and bridle.

  85. They went together to a pair of scales: the merchant shook gold from a sack on one of the wooden scales, whilst the shoemaker made his horse mount on the other.

  86. THERE was once a poor shoemaker renowned far and wide as a drunkard.

  87. Thereupon the shoemaker demanded a falcon for sale; his son at once disappeared, and a splendid falcon sat on the father's shoulder.

  88. The shoemaker took the bird to market, where he sold it to a hunter for a good price, but on returning home, he found his son seated at the table enjoying a good dinner.

  89. When the money thus gained had been spent to the last farthing, the shoemaker required a greyhound, which he again sold to a hunter, and on his return home found his son had arrived there before him.

  90. That's what the shoemaker said; but he bought a new one for six-pence.

  91. When Robespierre was in the zenith of his guillotinacious glory, the bonnes would sit around the scaffold, minding children and knitting stockings, to see the head of a marquis or of a shoemaker fall.

  92. He told about his work on the farm, his conflict with the Stubbles, the sorrow of the shoemaker and his wife over their daughter, of Mrs. Dempster and Empty, and the professor and his daughters.

  93. As he thought over these things, the shoemaker was standing looking out over the fields.


  94. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoemaker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.