The queen said: "Do you know what to do! call a tailoress, and have a dress precisely like this bought, and take off this one before my son comes." ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)
Opposed to her was the sartorella, or little tailoress, which may be said to be synonymous with the French grisette. ❋ Unknown (2006)
When I ask for a garment of a particular form, my tailoress tells me gravely, “They do not make them so now,” not emphasizing the “They” at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates, and I find it difficult to get made what I want, simply because she cannot believe that I mean what I say, that I am so rash. ❋ Unknown (2004)
My mother was a skilled tailoress; my father a quarry worker who worked his way through the engineering school at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. ❋ Unknown (1951)
The tailoress said, "Come down, I must fit a dress on you." ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)
My mother was a tailoress and that first year in Minnesota we could not have lived if it had not been for this. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Isn't he?" quietly replied the lady addressed, as the tailoress sat down in the flag-bottomed rocking-chair, and began rocking vehemently, all the time eyeing Lizzy from the depths of her poke-bonnet with patient scrutiny. ❋ Various (N/A)
But while she finishes her luncheon, let us make known to the patient reader whom and what the tailoress discusses. ❋ Various (N/A)
My wife is a tailoress, makes all kinds of men's clothing and is acquainted with all kinds of housework. ❋ John Thomas Codman (N/A)
She could not work now, and she went to board with her half-sister, the Deerfield tailoress. ❋ Various (N/A)
She was about a year younger than myself -- was a tailoress, and used to cut out clothes for the hands. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)
"Frank Addison is the last man to marry a dried-up old tailoress." ❋ Various (N/A)
"But I am not the old woman," replied the tailoress, "you know me, for I have always made your dresses." ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)
I was a tailoress and made a good living until the hard times came on. ❋ Various (N/A)
This made it impossible for them to keep any servant save a little girl who washed the dishes, and consequently Grisell acted as cook, housekeeper, housemaid, washerwoman, laundress, dressmaker, and tailoress. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)
She has been a tailoress and probably has earned most of her money with her needle. ❋ Various (N/A)
Ermellina looked out of the window and saw her tailoress; and was, in truth, a little confused (indeed, anyone would have been so). ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)
Also, I should stand a better chance of finding favor in your eyes, if I declared myself to be an indigent tailoress; for no woman should use her head who can use her hands, -- a maxim older than Confucius. ❋ Various (N/A)
Poor Ermellina was persuaded, and descended the stairs; the tailoress took to flight while Ermellina was yet buttoning up the dress, and disappeared. ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)
His coat was, without doubt, made by some village tailoress, for many of the graces with which the masculine artist adorns his garments were entirely wanting in those of our worthy farmer. ❋ Warren T. Ashton (N/A)
