Dressmaker

Examples

• I will be a dressmaker; I will be a plain-workwoman; I will be a servant, a nurse-girl, if I can be no better, I answered. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The dressmaker, with her hands still clasped, looked affrightedly from the one to the other of her two companions. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• With a gleam of new intelligence in her sharp face, the dolls' dressmaker pulled at Fledgeby's bell. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I am the dolls' dressmaker, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You are a very kind young man,' returned the dressmaker; 'a really kind young man. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Howbeit, it wore itself out in a shadowy corner, and then the dressmaker came forth, and washed her face, and made the tea. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Let us see what it is,' cried the dressmaker. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She has left it all to the dressmaker and to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Get it soon, and let it be made by a dressmaker of my recommending. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Soon I asked her if there were any dressmaker or plain-workwoman in the village? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I must own,' returned the dressmaker, with her eyes upon her work, 'that we are not good friends at present. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The dolls' dressmaker found it delicious to trace the screaming and smarting of Little Eyes in the distorted writing of this epistle. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It'll pay better, I assure you,' said Fledgeby, bestowing an inveigling twinkle or two upon the dressmaker. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You are the dolls' dressmaker? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• At the sight of him laughing in that absurd way, the dolls' dressmaker laughed very heartily indeed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• How anxious and capricious she would have been, and what a hard task the best of dressmakers would have found it to please her! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Her own inclination (after a month with the Paris dressmakers) was for mountaineering in July and swimming in August. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• If we all set to work as soon as we could use our hands, it would be all over with the dolls' dressmakers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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