Cobler

Lady two: Yeah, I know the IT guy told me that the cobler blog was recommending we stay away from Dell. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I cannot help observing here the art of the poet in letting us into the condition of Taylor: we may guess from his being pressed that he was not free of the city, and was most likely a journeyman cobler, coblers being famous for their glee. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

A cobler who has been used to rear canary-birds for Mad. de ❋ An English Lady (N/A)

No respect is paid to any person; the cobler on that day thinks himself equal to the parson, who generally gets mounted like the rest of his flock; whilst one of his porters _boasts and prides himself_ in having, but just before, got the _Squire_ across the pole. ❋ John Ashton (N/A)

Larrey or Laurie Miller was an old tailor in Keate's Lane who used to sit on his open shop-board, facing the street, a mark for the compliments of passing boys; as frolicsome youngsters in the days of Addison and Steele, as High School lads in the days of Walter Scott, were accustomed to "smoke the cobler." ❋ Tuckwell, Rev W (1902)

There is scarce a plough jogger or country cobler that has read our Psalms and can make two lines jingle, who has not once in his life at least exercised his talent in this way. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)

Lane who used to sit on his open shop-board, facing the street, a mark for the compliments of passing boys; as frolicsome youngsters in the days of Addison and Steele, as High School lads in the days of Walter Scott, were accustomed to "smoke the cobler." ❋ William Tuckwell (1874)

As Viney sipped his sherry-cobler of an evening, he laughed at the idea of a son-of-a-day-labourer like himself raising such a dust. ❋ Robert Smith Surtees (1833)

Fox (George) an illiterate cobler, first beginner and head of the ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

French flag, and heard clipping bad Spanish, after listening to the speech of a patriotic cobler of Cadiz, on the event of his own entry into that city, and the exit of some five thousand bold Britons out of this 'best of all possible worlds' [Pangloss, in _Candide_]. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

A cobler who has been used to rear canary-birds for Mad. de _, brought us this morning all the birds he was possessed of, and told us he was going to-morrow to the frontiers. ❋ Lady, An English (1797)

My master was no sooner gone down, but I bought a bass-viol, and got a master to instruct me; the intervals of time I spent in bowling in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, with Wat the cobler, Dick the blacksmith, and such like companions: We have sometimes been at our work at six in the morning, and so continued till three or four in the afternoon, many times without bread or drink all that while. ❋ Lilly, William, 1602-1681 (1715)

Here she comes, this heir-apparent of a sempstress, and a cobler! and yet, as she's adorned, she looks like any princess of the blood. ❋ John Dryden (1665)

_ And her father, the famous cobler, who taught Walsingham to the black-birds. ❋ John Dryden (1665)

_ Why, I say, in the first place, that I and all men are married for our sins, and that our wives are a judgment; that a batchelor-cobler is a happier man than a prince in wedlock; that we are all visited with a household plague, and, _Lord have mercy upon us_ should be written on all our doors [2]. ❋ John Dryden (1665)

Chantilly was a quondam cobler [[cobbler]] of the Rue St. Denis, who, becoming stage-mad, had attempted the rôle of Xerxes, in Crebillon's tragedy so called, and been notoriously pasquinaded for his pains. ❋ Unknown (2009)