Stocking Maker

She had noticed that a young stocking-maker from the "Brig End," James Paton, the son of William and Janet there, was in the habit of stealing alone into the quiet wood, book in hand, day after day, at certain hours, as if for private study and meditation. ❋ John Gibson Paton (1865)

This is the version of the story given by Henson {7} on the authority of an old stocking-maker, who died in Collins's Hospital, Nottingham, aged ninety-two, and was apprenticed in the town during the reign of Queen Anne. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

Our rival, Beauvisage, is not only a successful stocking-maker and an exemplary mayor, but he is also a model husband, having never tripped in loyalty to his wife, whom he respects and admires. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

To crush the candidate the ministry wanted to be rid of, -- a lawyer, and the worst sort of cad, -- I unearthed a stocking-maker, a fearful fool, whom I persuaded to offer himself as candidate. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

Rinaldi went out to summon a jeweller, a shoemaker, a stocking-maker, and ❋ Giacomo Casanova (1761)

I can assure you that the plain traveller feels seriously the inconvenience of following such a caravan; their money flows with such unwise prodigality that real liberality ceases to be valued; and many of your nobility have complained to me that in their travels they are now often expostulated with on account of their parsimony, and taunted with the mistaken extravagance of a stocking-maker or a porter-brewer. " ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

Violette, a stocking-maker, who had recently bought the Beauvisage house, "it is to pledge ourselves to support, by employing every means in our power, Monsieur Simon Giguet at the elections as deputy in place of Comte Francois Keller. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)