52 examples of hosier in sentences

But find out from Sir Horace's hosier if he sold it.

Rolfe took it to Sir Horace's hosier, and he is practically certain that the glove is one of a pair he sold to Sir Horace.

The police think it belonged to Sir Horace because it is the same size as the gloves he wore, and because Sir Horace's hosier stocks the same kindas does nearly every fashionable hosier in London.

The police think it belonged to Sir Horace because it is the same size as the gloves he wore, and because Sir Horace's hosier stocks the same kindas does nearly every fashionable hosier in London.

He ascertained that Mr. Charles Holymead was a customer of the firm, but it was apparent from the manager's spiritless attitude towards Mr. Holymead that the famous K.C. was not a man who ran up a big bill with his hosier, or was very particular about what he wore.

The world regarded some of the men of this type famous or distinguished, but in the hosier's mind they were all classed as commonplace.

The hosier that was burned with his shop in Field Lane, on Tuesday night, shall have passed to heaven for me like a Marian Martyr, provided always that he consecrated the fortuitous incremation with a short ejaculation in the exit, as much as if he had taken his state degrees of martyrdom in formâ in the market vicinage.

Horeop Hosier, Admiral ...

Hannah More writes (Memoirs, i. 405):'I was much amused with hearing old Leonidas Glover sing his own fine ballad of Hosier's Ghost, which was very affecting.

Next year he was made to work at a stocking-loom, preparatively to his learning the business of a hosier; but his mother, seeing the reluctance with which he engaged in an employment so ill-suited to his temper and abilities, prevailed on his father, though not without much difficulty, to fix him in the office of Messrs. Coldham and Endfield, attorneys in Nottingham.

Later entries show that Robert was a hosier to his trade.

" "I know Mr. Bloundel well," rejoined the man who had made the inquiry, and whom Leonard recognised as a hosier named Lamplugh, "and I know the person who addresses us.

With some assistance I selected a suit, and went also to the hatter's and boot-maker's and hosier's, and also engaged my place on the Saturday morning coach.

About a year ago I paid a visit to my hosier and haberdasher with the intention of purchasing a few things with which to tide over the remaining months of winter.

Then, discarding the little vesties of warm-blooded youth and the double-width vestums of rheumatic old age, I chose several commonplace woollen affairs and was preparing to leave when my hosier and haberdasher leaned across the counter and whispered in my ear.

A few days later, still having the wool shortage in mind, I approached my hosier and haberdasher on the subject of shirts.

My idea was in perfect unison with that of my hosier and haberdasher.

Yesterday I paid my hosier and haberdasher another visit.

And where was my hosier and haberdasher?

I imagined the shock of this procedure on a man like my hosier and haberdasher, whose heart was perhaps a trifle woolly.

But I have changed my mind and, if you will come with me, you can take your choice with a clear conscience, and (I glanced maliciously at my faded hosier and haberdasher) at the prices which were prevalent a year ago.

HORTON, Mrs., ii. 224, n. 1. Hosier's Ghost, v. 116, n. 4.

The hosier hurried forward, obviously anticipating a princely order for tweeds at war prices.

For instance, a young monk, for writing fanatic letters, and signing resolutions in favour of foederalisma hosier, for facilitating the return of an emigranta man of ninety, for speaking against the revolution, and discrediting the assignatsa contractor, for embezzling foragepeople of various descriptions, for obstructing the recruitment, or insulting the tree of liberty.

He was bred, says Mr. Jacob, a Hosier, which profession he forsook, as unworthy of him, and became one of the most enterprizing authors this, or any other age, ever produced.

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