He was a bookbinder, one of those educated artisans whom the revolutions of 1848 sent to us in great numbers.
We began to read Heine together when my vocabulary had to be dug almost word by word out of the dictionary, for the bookbinder's English was rather scanty at the best, and was not literary.
I can see the perspiration on the shining forehead of the bookbinder as he looks up from some brilliant passage, to exchange a smile of triumph with me at having made out the meaning with the meagre facilities we had for the purpose; he had beautiful red pouting lips, and a stiff little branching mustache above them, that went to the making of his smile.
General Warren was a physician, General Lincoln a farmer, and General Knox a
bookbinder. General Nathaniel Greene, the best soldier, except Washington, in the Revolutionary army, was a Quaker and a blacksmith.
Because, while the whales of this order, though smaller than those of the former order, nevertheless retain a proportionate likeness to them in figure, yet the
bookbinder's Quarto volume in its diminished form does not preserve the shape of the Folio volume, but the Octavo volume does.
It somewhat resembles in its plastic nature our
bookbinders' paste, is of a yellow colour, and somewhat tart to the taste.
In this happy retreat are colonised a few clear-starchers, a sprinkling of journeymen
bookbinders, one or two prison agents for the Insolvent Court, several small housekeepers who are employed in the Docks, a handful of mantua-makers, and a seasoning of jobbing tailors.
City libraries are one of the main customers for
bookbinder, and their staff are brought to libraries to protect old books.
Noah
Bookbinder, of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said: "President Trump has become more and more brazen about using the presidency to advance his businesses.
With "Introduction to Bookbinding & Custom Cases" the aspiring
bookbinder will be able to master the pamphlet book style, the flat-back book, the round-back book, and the construction of slipcases and clamshell boxes for decorative book protection.
Noah
Bookbinder, executive director of the watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said the trips to Mar-a-Lago themselves are the real problem, not just the direct spending there.
Matthew Whitaker has criticized Robert Mueller's investigation again and again," said Noah
Bookbinder at a park near the White House, where some 500 demonstrators had gathered as part of the Nobody Is Above The Law" protests.