Mateo, when an urchin, used to be an attentive listener to the narratives of his grandfather, and of the gossip group assembled round the shopboard; and is thus possessed of a stock of valuable knowledge concerning the Alhambra, not to be found in books, and well worthy the attention of every curious traveller. ❋ Unknown (2002)
He sprang from the shopboard, and ran down with his comrades to the beach, to gaze upon the glorious sight. ❋ Major A.R. Calhoon (N/A)
He was almost bent double with constant labour at his shopboard; and his eyes seemed not to have benefited by his application, for a pair of glasses were mounted on his nose. ❋ James Morier (N/A)
I think that had I been permitted to select my own profession in childhood, I should in all probability have bound myself apprentice to a tailor, for I always envied the comfortable seat which they appeared to enjoy upon the shopboard. ❋ Various (1909)
It is a pitiful sight, and when one by one the women have made their bargains, we notice that the shopboard is depleted of its heap of scrags and odds and ends. ❋ Thomas Holmes (1882)
By perseverance he soon learned to read; and the hours which he devoted to his education were at night, after he had finished his daily labour upon the shopboard. ❋ Unknown (1865)
I returned her salute when she seated her upon the shopboard and asked me saying, "O master, hast thou any pieces of choice Indian stuffs?" ❋ Anonymous (1855)
But to go back daily from the drawing-room and the publisher's to the goose and the shopboard, was too much for my weakness, even if it had been physically possible, as, thank Heaven, it was not. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
Some weak framed blacksmith, perhaps, whose delicacy of muscle might have suited a tailor's shopboard better than the anvil. ❋ Unknown (1846)
The khan was a hovel; but while it was swept out, and prepared for us, I sat down with the captain on a shopboard, in the little bazaar, where coffee was served. ❋ Andrew Archibald Paton (1842)
And yet man lives not except with formulas; with customs, ways of doing and living: no text truer than this; which will hold true from the Tea-table and Tailor's shopboard up to the High Senate-houses, Solemn Temples; nay through all provinces of Mind and Imagination, onwards to the outmost confines of articulate Being, -- Ubi homines sunt modi sunt! ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
And just now I was uncommonly pleased to find that, though you are a parson, you don't want to keep a man's nose down to a shopboard, if he has anything in him. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
Your Stulz, with huge somerset, vaults from his high shopboard down to the depths of primal savagery, -- carrying much along with him! ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
Your Stulz, with huge Somerset, vaults from his high shopboard down to the depths of primal savagery, -- carrying much along with him! ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
The instances which it was the fashion to cite of the great achievements of soldiers taken from the threshing floor and the shopboard were fit only for a schoolboy's theme. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)
Button, the son and heir to the honours, fortune, and shopboard of the late Billy Button of Bedford-street, Covent ❋ Robert Cruikshank (1828)
Somehow or other, the clothes made on my shopboard came into great vogue through all Dalkeith, both for neatness of shape and nicety of workmanship; and the young journeymen of other masters did not think themselves perfected, or worthy a decent wage, till they had crooked their houghs for three months in my service. ❋ David Macbeth Moir (1824)
