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Example sentences for "tailoress"

Lexicographically close words:
taille; tailles; tailless; tailor; tailored; tailoresses; tailoring; tailors; tailpieces; tails
  1. The business of a tailoress is numbered among the regular trades for women, and requires somewhat more than the average trade time, say one year.

  2. One that has been a tailoress and accustomed to sewing on heavy cloths is deficient in fineness of touch, and cannot succeed so well.

  3. On a recent occasion before leaving Marlborough House new clothes were ordered for Prince Edward, and according to custom a tailoress was sent to fit him at a time which would not interfere with his lessons.

  4. The fair tailoress smiled on him as sweetly as ever, and in the summer of 1827 they became formally engaged.

  5. She was a tailoress in the village, and went to church regularly, but, although Phineas saw her every Sunday for many weeks, he had no opportunity of the acquaintance that season.

  6. Danilovitch--the shoemaker of Kazan and murderer of Marie Garine, the poor little tailoress in Petersburg.

  7. Poor Ermellina was persuaded, and descended the stairs; the tailoress took to flight while Ermellina was yet buttoning up the dress, and disappeared.

  8. The tailoress said, "Come down, I must fit a dress on you.

  9. My mother was a tailoress and that first year in Minnesota we could not have lived if it had not been for this.

  10. It was a great event when the tailoress came.

  11. I was a tailoress and made a good living until the hard times came on.

  12. And so, according to your own account, you will protect your tailoress and unmake your country.

  13. I am speaking of the people that are not seen, like the tailoress and shirtmaker, in your drum-and-trumpet State.

  14. The little tailoress smiled through her tears, though she felt very uneasy at being observed in company and conversation with the rough-looking stranger.

  15. Then the little tailoress went away, wondering when the mischief would reveal itself, but sure that it would appear in good time.

  16. Still, the little tailoress was surprised at the heartiness of their congratulations, and often melted to tears by the presents she received from the great number of families for whom, every year, she had worked.

  17. Of the long conversation that took place that night between the woodsman and the little tailoress we shall present no record.

  18. The little tailoress returns twice a year with her thrifty husband, to revisit her old friends; and she brings at last a little one, which she shows with great pride.

  19. Let's have done with joking," said the tailoress solemnly.

  20. Already they had begun to suspect that the little tailoress had a secret, out of which would grow a change in her life.

  21. There was not a woman in the crowd who did not believe in Jim; and all were glad that the little tailoress had reached so pleasant and stimulating a change in her life.

  22. And the little tailoress went off into another fit of laughter.

  23. The tailoress looked up over her glasses, and laughed.

  24. The tailoress heard him sneeze, and came in.


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