She sends a string of instructions to Anthony to order tailors and sempstresses so that I shall have new dresses waiting for me, but she takes his advice that we should enter into our greatness quietly, and without any sign of glorying in this leap from being of the defeated House of Lancaster to being new partners of the victorious House of York. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2009)
My Lady Mother summons the tailors and the sempstresses to our inn and I am fitted for a wonderful gown. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2009)
Nipper worked away at her side, all day, with the concentrated zeal of fifty sempstresses. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In her house were not only laundresses, sempstresses, carpenters, tailors and tailoresses, there was even a harness-maker — he was reckoned as a veterinary surgeon, too, — and a doctor for the servants; there was a household doctor for the mistress; there was, lastly, a shoemaker, by name ❋ Unknown (2006)
She collected all the sempstresses and embroiderers of Samarah and other cities to the distance of sixty leagues, to prepare pavilions, palanquins, sofas, canopies, and litters for the train of the monarch. ❋ Unknown (2004)
All the while, too, we had to work — to work from morning till night, for we had contrived to obtain some employment as occasional sempstresses. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I must have at least three dozen linen blouses; so I must go at once and look for sempstresses to make two out of the three dozen, since time presses. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Gorokhovaia Street, and ask her, in the first place, to send me some sempstresses, and, in the second place, to give herself the trouble of coming in person, as I am too ill to go out. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Similar cakes are also bestowed on the hangers-on of the establishment, such as laundresses, sempstresses, charwomen, etc. ❋ John Ashton (N/A)
My house was full for weeks, of tailors, making up rough coats, trousers, etc., and sempstresses cutting out and making shirts. ❋ Mary Seacole (N/A)
We should never have allowed smart young pickpockets to compete with poor sempstresses, whose ranks are already overcrowded. ❋ A Merchant - Anonymous (N/A)
Its cultivators constantly make up for lack of talent by the excitement of immoral scenes, and give to their audience of sempstresses and grooms a most degraded view of aristocratic life. ❋ Bayard Tuckerman (N/A)
He got intelligence of the picnics given by the tradesmen, milliners, and sempstresses of Versailles, whither he repaired in a black domino, and masked, accompanied by the captain of his Guards, masked like himself. ❋ Various (N/A)
Royal Exchange; the shops or stalls being principally occupied by miliners and sempstresses. ❋ Various (N/A)
Twenty times in each day is she called upstairs to where the sempstresses are at work, to have something tried on or fitted. ❋ Frank J. Webb (N/A)
There were hungry people in want of professed cooks; divers demands for chamber-maids, black or white; special inquiries for waiters and footmen, in which the same disregard of colour was observable; advertisements for partners in all sorts of businesses, and for journeymen in every department of mechanical operations; then there were milliners wanted, sempstresses, and even theatrical assistants, but nowhere in the long columns could he discover: ❋ Frank J. Webb (N/A)
