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Example sentences for "upholsterer"

Lexicographically close words:
upholdeth; upholding; upholds; upholster; upholstered; upholsterers; upholstering; upholstery; upkeep; upland
  1. Every day he had his little encounter with the upholsterer bee, and he always came out of the affair with the same unfailing tact.

  2. The little upholsterer bee was not the only one who worked in the rose-bushes.

  3. There was a little upholsterer bee which worked from morning till night, from night till morning.

  4. A flower or a bird could make us merry for several hours, not to speak of the upholsterer bee.

  5. He had a farewell dinner party at his house; and the upholsterer having waited upon his lordship, with an account of the completion of the goods, was brought into the dining-room, in a corner of which his lordship spoke with him.

  6. But when the architect and painter and upholsterer had arranged everything in the most comfortable manner, the doctor did not come.

  7. She and I worked together at those curtains, and you would think that an upholsterer made them.

  8. The idea ran away with me, and the momentum of it carried me through the difficulties I found when I tried to get an upholsterer to make the curtains.

  9. Jean Brodie was the sister who kept house for the Deacon; and Jacobina Brodie was the wife of Matthew Sheriff, upholsterer in Edinburgh, who gave evidence at the trial in defence of his brother-in-law.

  10. I wrote on the spot to the one upholsterer of our distant county town to come immediately and survey the premises, and sent off a mounted messenger with the letter.

  11. Little did I suspect, when I parted from the upholsterer on the fifth of the month, what the tenth of the month had in store for me.

  12. I am left alone for an hour, and then the upholsterer arrives from the county town.

  13. The upholsterer had received his orders, and the villa would be in readiness upon their return, and there would be a famous house-warming, to which half Speckport was to be invited.

  14. The upholsterer furnishing Redmon Villa had his orders for Rosebush Cottage also, and both were to be in readiness when September came round.

  15. The upholsterer had done his work well, the drawing-room was one long vista of splendor, the dining-room almost too beautiful for eating in, and there was a conservatory the like of which Speckport had never seen before.

  16. An upholsterer may take back his furniture, but he doesn't turn you into the street by that.

  17. I asked how much the upholsterer claimed: it was eight or nine hundred francs, I believe; but if I had turned in four hundred francs, do you imagine for a moment that they would have given it to their creditor?

  18. And this upholsterer who will have her turned out of her apartments if she doesn't pay him?

  19. When the upholsterer found that he couldn't carry away his furniture, he was crazy.

  20. The upholsterer is going to compel me to leave my apartment instantly, if I do not pay four hundred francs on account.

  21. That is to say, they had their own furniture to pay for; the upholsterer wanted to carry it away this morning; but not much--the landlord must be paid first and they owed him for three quarters.

  22. Well, the Upholsterer was called, and her Longing sav'd that bout.

  23. Margaret knew that the wholesale upholsterer who admired the contralto was not far off, for she had seen a man bringing in flowers for her, and no one else would have sent them to her for a mere dress rehearsal.

  24. Upstairs you will find a room that has been fitted up by the best upholsterer in Montaignac.

  25. And now another axiom to be remembered when shopping: never allow an upholsterer to direct your taste or to tell you what to buy, neither allow him to talk you out of anything on which you have settled after mature consideration.

  26. I will prove to you that I am a better upholsterer than you are.

  27. The upholsterer opened the richly-gilded glass door, and Kaunitz, as much in earnest as when he had been giving and taking a kingdom, entered the coach and seated himself.

  28. Yes, your highness, but the upholsterer could not understand the drawings which were given him.

  29. Then let the upholsterer have the carriage brought to my room, with the drawings and his tools.

  30. My upholsterer was my cabinet-minister--who better?

  31. In the sequel, I had occasion to see his versatile powers more profitably engaged, and which led me to reflect somewhat more seriously upon the adventure of the upholsterer and the receipt in full of all demands.

  32. However, I can't believe even the upholsterer will finally corrupt her.

  33. I at length took my leave of the company, and was going away; but had not gone thirty yards before the upholsterer hemmed again after me.

  34. No upholsterer should exorcise comfort, or children, from my door-sill.

  35. I at length took my leave of the company, and was going away; but had not been gone thirty yards, before the upholsterer hemmed again after me.

  36. The kings were lodged at the Two Crowns and Cushion, the house of an upholsterer in Covent Garden, probably Thomas Arne, the father of Dr.

  37. Footnote 190: The original of the Political Upholsterer of Nos.

  38. So the worthy gossip went away, more wishful to possess such a husband for herself than she had been to talk about the husband of her friend; and when the upholsterer came home again his wife told him the whole story.

  39. After playing these fine pranks, the upholsterer looked about him to see whether any one could perceive him, and to his exceeding annoyance observed his neighbour at her window.

  40. When the upholsterer was gone out of the house, the poor servant threw herself upon her knees before her mistress, telling her that her husband had done her the greatest wrong that was ever done to a serving-maid.

  41. Innocents' Day being come, the upholsterer rose early in the morning, and, going up to the room where the maid lay all alone, he gave her the Innocents in a different fashion to that which he had talked of with his wife.

  42. Cleverness of an upholsterer of Touraine, who, to hide that he has given the Innocents to his serving-maid, contrives to give them afterwards to his wife.

  43. There was in their house a very plump serving-maid with whom the upholsterer fell in love.


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