He set out at once, the man with whom he had made the bet--whose name is not remembered--accompanied by Barham Wise, a
linen draper, and Hamerson Burns, a photographer, I think, following in a light cart or wagon.
"I have traced her to a shop at Frizinghall, kept by a
linen draper named Maltby.
In 1566 a
linen draper of Bristol, England, declared that he had lived five hundred years, and that in all that time he had never told a lie.
"Scarcely ever; she had business to transact with linen drapers, to whose houses I conducted her."
"Your wife, in going to Rue de Vaugirard and Rue de la Harpe, did not go to find linen drapers."
I told my wife several times that it was surprising that linen drapers should live in such houses as those, in houses that had no signs; but she always laughed at me.
Although a
linen draper by profession, Crabtree shared Horrocks's interest in mathematics and astronomy.
This secret was passed onto his confessor, Dom Ruinart, who is regarded as being the inspiration behind the oldest Champagne House, founded in 1729 by his nephew, Nicolas Ruinart, a
linen draper from Reims.
The son of a
linen draper, he was working as a schoolmaster when formally appointed editor in 1879.
Accompanying comments are in the main useful although some are rather obvious for readers of a text of this nature (for example, explanations of words like "seer," "scribe," "pretend," "
linen draper").
Yet, in contrast to the suffocating overpopulation of Dore's London, Tissot often concentrates our attention on two or three figures amid a profusion of well-tailored fabric, which recalls that this son of a
linen draper and a milliner came from the textile center, Nantes.
When the aunts died, Elizabeth inherited the shop and shop goods, as well as the position of
linen draper. After being in business for only three months and paying an exorbitant Stall and Art fee to trade, she was indicted for "practicing the trade of a
linen draper ...