The second lion was a tailor by trade, who belonged to the playhouse, and had the character of a mild and peaceful man in his profession.
Eugene was roused from his musings by the voice of the stout Sylvie, who announced that the tailor had come, and Eugene therefore made his appearance before the man with the two money bags, and was not ill pleased that it should be so.
His tailor had been summoned and sounded, and had finally surrendered.
Never give a man the wrong office; size every man up, an' measure him for his place th' same as a tailor does for a suit of clothes.
Now when money came, I sought the firsttailor of the town.
That tailor dressed me like a gentleman and did me a deal of good.
The tailor snatched up a pattern and figured on it for a moment.
As Charley stooped to put wood in the fire, the tailor thrust a foot forward and pushed the piece of paper further under the table.
The tailor nodded, and sat down with a colour in his face.
The tailorhad three ruling passions--cupidity, vanity, and religion.
Not, however, until a certain day later did the Cure realise this, though for thirty years the tailor had never omitted his Easter-time duties.
Afterwards he sat and thought till the shadows deepened, and the tailor came in to supper.
The tailor was in great good-humour; for the terrible trial was over, and he now had an assistant who would be a better tailor than himself.
That night the tailor crept down into the shop, felt for the paper in the dark, found it, and carried it away to his room.
Altogether Pastor Rad was not very eager to meet the girl's father, but the tailor and the smith, who represented public opinion in Eisenach, had led him in his haste to declare that he would face Nicholas, and he would.
And so by the merest chance did Father Lamormain, that peaceful refined priest, in a cassock which did credit to the tailor who fashioned it, though it was cut strictly according to the rule of the Jesuits.
His name was Roger Holland, and he was a merchant tailor in the City, but of gentle birth, and related to the Earl of Derby.
They were as fine as ever the tailor could make them.
In further corroboration of this argument--who ever saw the wedding of a tailor announced in the newspapers, or the birth of his eldest son?
Correspondent in some sort to this, it may be remarked, that the tailor sitting over a cave or hollow place, in the caballistic language of his order is said to have certain melancholy regions always open under his feet.
When was a tailor known to give a dance, or to be himself a good dancer, or to perform exquisitely on the tight-rope, or to shine in any such light and airy pastimes?
But Shakespeare and the rest have to walk behind a common tailor from Tennessee, by the name of Billings; and behind a horse-doctor named Sakka, from Afghanistan.
Why, look here--Shakespeare walked backwards before that tailor from Tennessee, and scattered flowers for him to walk on, and Homer stood behind his chair and waited on him at the banquet.
But, sad to say, although the tailor was good and industrious, his son was so idle and bad that his father and mother did not know what to do with him.
Mr. Bowser took his dress coat down to a tailor to get a couple of new buttons sewed on, and as he returned without it, I observed: "You are always finding fault with the procrastination of my dressmaker.
Your tailor doesn't seem to be in any particular hurry.
And when the tailor is wearing a coat that does not fit him," said Angelo, "it is rude to tell him of it.
Highlanders, of course, do not wear trousers, but we supposed that his Sicilian tailor had had little experience in the cutting of kilts.
It was a crushing retort, and one to which there was no answer, for the affair of the tailor of St. Antoine's was fresh in all minds.
It was said in the cabarets and public places that the memory of the tailor of St. Antoine haunted the King, and that he and the Queen were, in secret, heretics.
He rehearsed his rise from tailor to President, and declared that a ground swell, an earthquake of popular support, was coming to him.
He made addresses in the principal cities, in which he denounced his opponents, sometimes with vulgar abuse, bragged of his own rise from tailor to President, and bandied words with the mob.
We then returned up the two hatchways to the middle deck above, the boy messenger Larrikins being sent down by the direction of the master-at- arms to fetch us to be measured for our uniforms, the tailor having come aboard.
It was a most orthodox town, where everyone but the Feldscher and the ladies' tailorwore kaftans.
What should a tailor be doing in the bath in the middle of the week?
God be praised, a tailor brought some dried yeast, and there was an end of it.
To return to the subject, your Shmuel Moesheh is no tailor or shoemaker, to throw over his wife for another woman.
While the name of a tailor sounded to him so cheap, that of a merchant flattered his ambition immensely.
One afternoon as the tailor was sewing a pair of trousers the alderman of the village brought him a registered letter from America.
The American Bride Petka had been for years a village tailor but he had never been able to save enough money to open a grocery-store.
Fullerton was impatient, and cut in almost before the tailorhad finished.
Katharine was pleased with the pretty new dress and cap that the tailor had made for her, but Petruchio found fault with everything, flung the cap and gown on the floor vowing his dear wife should not wear any such foolish things.
Just then Petruchio brought her some food--but she had scarcely begun to satisfy her hunger, before he called for the tailor to bring her new clothes, and the table was cleared, leaving her still hungry.
Stanislawski departed behind the scenes, all the others dispersed, and the dressing-room became deserted, only the tailor remaining to gather up the costumes scattered over the floor and tables and take them to the storeroom.
An eastern tailor to the Court was making a magnificent doublet for a bashaw of nine tails, and covering it, after the manner of eastern doublets, with gold, silver, and every species of metallic magnificence.
Every one knows the old story of the tailorand the elephant, which, if it be not true, at least shows the opinion the Orientals, who know the animal well, entertain of his sagacity.
Fowler the tailor and Gainsborough the artist, 2, 3.
You feel like that when your tailor has done you particularly well?
And a man who weighs eighteen stone at fifty has got to look at it, every time his tailor lets out his waistcoats, and his valet asks him to order more collars because the last lot have shrunk in the wash.
Then, as to vest, coat and shirts: no tailor could make a coat for me that could trail after my neck when it was engaged in the throes of a society conversation.
He gave the wool to our swellest tailor and had him make it up into an extra fancy line of trousering.
