Tailors

Whilst Jekyll was examining a witness as to the number of tailors present at the alleged riot, Lord Eldon -- then Chief Justice of the Common Pleas -- reminded him that three persons can make that which the law regards as a riot; whereupon the witty advocate answered, "Yes, my lord, Hale and Hawkins lay down the law as your lordship states it, and I rely on their authority; for if there must be three men to make a riot, the rioters being _tailors_, there must be nine times three present, and unless the prosecutor make out that there were twenty-seven joining in this breach of the peace, my clients are entitled to an acquittal." ❋ John Cordy Jeaffreson (1866)

Their clothes are copied from the English, though they will claim in the same breath that their tailors are the best in the world. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

This is the "wet pressing" used by tailors, which is adapted to the requirements of materials used by them, such as serge, tweeds, etc. ❋ Kate Heintz Watson (N/A)

In Baltimore the tailors were the first to organize, and they conducted in 1795 one of the first strikes in ❋ Samuel Peter Orth (1897)

The best kind are called tailors, and have a good deal of the mackerel flavour; and snappers, which somewhat resemble cod-fish. ❋ Edward Wilson Landor (1844)

Sir Willmott Burrell bustled and chafed, and gave orders to his serving-men, and to those now called tailors; visited the neighbouring gentry, but spoke not of his approaching marriage, which he preferred should take place as silently as might be. ❋ S. C. Hall (1840)

But here in Udaipur, the tailors are a swarm of bees hounding me within 100 feet of the door. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The girls I was teaching were being trained to be "tailors" in a town of dozens of unoccupied tailors: learning how to sew without sewing machines and with paper instead of cloth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You get clusters of certain types of shops in the UK, such as tailors and jewellery shops, though it does depend on the town and how old/modern the place is. ❋ Michael Turton (2006)

As to the trade of country towns, there were many more actual makers of things than now, such as tailors and bootmakers, patten makers, maltsters; and there were several academies, as the schools for the middle class were called. ❋ Alfred Kingston (N/A)

So I bought a box of a dozen pieces, such as tailors use. ❋ The Seybert Commission (N/A)

They are paid not half as much as men who are employed at the needle: such as tailors, and makers of gloves, or waistcoats, etc. -- no doubt because women can work as well as men -- because they are more weak and delicate -- and because their need may be twofold as great when they become mothers. ❋ Eug��ne Sue (1830)

This place consists of about one hundred and fifty houses; stores, taverns, doctors'-shops, and lawyers 'offices, with the dwellings of sundry artisans; such as tailors, shoemakers, hatters, and smiths. ❋ William Bingley (1798)

Development the mid-80s, local tailor shop already passed their prime time, old kind of tailors in Chaoshan are in disappearing now, only some old people or people with special requirements will come to tailors. ❋ Tinjip (2010)

She said these districts included businesses such as tailors, cleaners, diners, nightclubs, movie theaters, general stores, banks, doctors and other professional offices that blacks supported. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To buy Christie's "avenging prosecutor against corruption" theme, we've got to be as gullible as the emperor whose "tailors" explain they are dressing him in "cloth" invisible to all who are either too stupid or unfit for his position. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most Black people worked in white-owned businesses or homes, but there was a thriving Black middle-class based in educational institutions and in certain services, such as tailors, barbers, restaurateurs and the like. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[In Dorset these strokes are said to be called tailors: Acad. ❋ Unknown (1986)