Maker

Examples

• Why, the breeches-maker, said Bob Manners, speaking very slow. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Tell monsieur what kind of shoe it is, and the maker's name. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was the sum she had set aside to pacify her dress-maker--unless she should decide to use it as a sop to the jeweller. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Harness-maker's estimate, so much. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You'll want six,' said the dress-maker. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My Maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He would have made a wonderful cabinet-maker, said Mrs Higden, 'if there had been the money to put him to it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• By some means his brother sold one of his machines to Mr. William Thomas, a corset maker of London, and Howe was induced to go there to make stays, and his machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He showed it to a man named William Thomas, who became interested in it, offered $1,250 for it, and also offered to employ Elias Howe in his business of umbrella and corset maker. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• And the maker's name? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I was quite strook to hear you'd agreed to it, ma'am, that I was, continued the besom-maker. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Then it happened that in 1764 a small Newcomen engine that belonged to the University of Glasgow was given to James Watt, an instrument-maker at the university, to be repaired. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Who does not know of the tarred rigging that once meant so much to the rope maker? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Coach-maker's estimate, so much. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But what do you say to flute-makers and flute-players? Plato. The Republic.
• Tar makers at home. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He stands high as inventor, and quite as high as one of the makers of modern commercial England. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We have actually pretended that the work of extracting a living from nature could be done most successfully by short-sighted money-makers encouraged by their money-spending wives. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As to Pottery:--Could we only know who among the peoples of the earth first discovered, used, or invented fire, we might know who were the first makers of baked earthenware. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It requires several ship loads of wood to supply the requirements of Lucifer-match makers; and ingenious contrivances have been patented for cutting it up into splints of the proper size. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The rector was the worst of all innocent mischief-makers--an over-zealous man. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It seemed as if the bonfire-makers were standing in some radiant upper story of the world, detached from and independent of the dark stretches below. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• For we shall be making and the makers of history will become more real to us. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She assisted me cheerfully in my business, folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Maternity must forth to the streets, to the herb-makers and bakers'-queues; meets there with hunger-stricken Maternity, sympathetic, exasperative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Dutch, with Huygens in the lead, were long among the leading clock-makers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• His invention was subsequently taken up and carried to a success by the great English paper makers, the Fourdrinier Brothers, whose name has been given to the machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They were to be guardians, not holiday-makers. Plato. The Republic.
• Here are employed approximately 1,000 expert tool makers, machinists and die sinkers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Typist: Rosanna