Use tailor in a sentence
Sentences ending with tailor
- It mattered little what he was, tinker or tailor. [11]
- Over the door was painted, in straggling letters: "Louis Trudel, Tailor. [11]
- It is fair to warn the tailor. [11]
- He is going to stir up trouble against the tailor. [11]
- Hadrian stood in the midst of the crowd, and at the instant when Verus appeared on the scene had wrenched the torch out of the hand of the infuriated tailor. [10]
- She was glad that Jo should defend M'sieu', but she was jealous of his friendship for the tailor. [11]
- It has to tally up a hundred against one before it can pump up pluck enough to tackle a sick tailor. [5]
- Come along, I'll take you to my tailor. [5]
- You became a tailor! [11]
- The surgeon was so intent upon at once fortifying himself that he did not see the look which passed between Rosalie and the tailor. [11]
Short sentences using tailor
- Look at the infidel tailor! [11]
- The tailor yonder has brains. [11]
Sentences containing tailor two or more times
- She saw the iron raised, and looked for M'sieu' to knock the tailor down; but, instead, she beheld the tailor go back and put the iron on the fire again. [11]
- The tailor was in great good-humour; for the terrible trial was over, and he now had an assistant who would be a better tailor than himself. [11]
- Still, there was everything a tailor needed, and Jim was a kind of jack legged tailor, and he allowed he could soon trim a suit or two down for us that would answer. [5]
More example sentences with the word tailor in them
- Again, according to your mind, a man who steals holy vessels must needs be an infidel; therefore a tailor in Chaudiere, suspected of being an infidel, stole the holy chalices. [11]
- I saw that you were hard-pushed and sick--" "I wasn't sick," interrupted the tailor with a snarl. [11]
- Besides, the judges would be charged with partiality by the tailor and his followers, and to show such visible tokens of favour threatened to prejudice the dignity of the court. [10]
- The tailor came with his goose and a pair of shears; but he despised me, too, and departed for the South that night. [5]
- At the instant when the case was most critical the tailor of Chaudiere set his foot inside the Notary's door. [11]
- I wondered mightily what tailor had thrust this garment upon him; its fashion was of the old king's time, the cuffs slashed like a sea-officer's uniform, and the shoulders made carefully round. [9]
- No special proceedings were required, since he was his own accuser, and many trustworthy witnesses deposed that he had been most grossly irritated--nay, as his advocate represented, had wounded the tailor in self-defence. [10]
- The shoes he wears were made in our workshop, but the master still whistles for his pay, and he owes everybody--the tailor, the lacemaker, the armourer, the girdlemaker, and the goldsmith. [10]
- M'sieu', the tailor was ill for three days here, and he would let no one except the Cure and Jo Portugais near him. [11]
- Why, look here--Shakespeare walked backwards before that tailor from Tennessee, and scattered flowers for him to walk on, and Homer stood behind his chair and waited on him at the banquet. [5]
- If he might venture to offer counsel, he would not interrupt his master now; he had received very sad news, and the tailor who came to take his measure for his mourning garments had just left him. [10]
- The tailor folded up his cloth and hurried away. [10]
- The tailor snatched up a pattern and figured on it for a moment. [11]
- But in the universal uproar only a few had heard his words, and the hot-blooded tailor was so rash as to lay his hand on the praetor's girdle in order to drag him away from the door with the help of his comrades. [10]
- Next I gently touched up the newest stranger--the lion of the day, the gorgeous journeyman tailor from Quincy. [5]
- Thereupon the woodsman told the whole truth concerning the tailor of Chaudiere. [11]
- He had gone to the Cure every day, and the Cure had talked with him, and then had sent him to the tailor, who had, during the past six months, withdrawn more and more from the life about him, practically living with shut door. [11]
- As Charley stooped to put wood in the fire, the tailor thrust a foot forward and pushed the piece of paper further under the table. [11]
- I went straight to my tailor, put on the clothes and bade him look at them. [11]
- He was used to being waited on, and he had expected the tailor to follow the tradition. [11]
- I was going to America, and I paid an angry and reluctant visit to my London tailor thirty-six hours before I was to start. [11]
- The tailor had three ruling passions--cupidity, vanity, and religion. [11]
- Just then two things drew the attention of all: the tailor showed returning consciousness, and there was noise of many voices outside the house and the tramping of feet below-stairs. [11]
- Will you take the trouble to ask your tailor how many persons have their two shoulders of the same height? [6]
- I count out the tailor, but not the others--they are all allowed a cent a day, and in driving times they get more--yes, up to a hundred and ten and even fifteen milrays a day. [5]
- Since then M'sieu' the tailor has been ill. [11]
- How many besides the tailor had large demands! [10]
- Before she left the shop, with the stranger's smile answering to her nod, she had made up her mind that Charley was a tailor by courtesy only. [11]
- But Shakespeare and the rest have to walk behind a common tailor from Tennessee, by the name of Billings; and behind a horse-doctor named Sakka, from Afghanistan. [5]
- In front of the house occupied by the master cloth-maker Deichsler, where the Swiss had his quarters, the tailor Ploss stopped him. [10]
- The mention of the blood money which Herr Ernst Ortlieb owed the slandering tailor, who had not yet recovered from his wound, induced the Emperor to look at the father of the beautiful sisters. [10]
- It was absurd that this woman should remind her of the tailor of Chaudiere. [11]
- Could it be that the tailor and M'sieu' were working at so late an hour? [11]
- People were thicker than bees, in those narrow streets, and the men were dressed in all the outrageous, outlandish, idolatrous, extravagant, thunder-and-lightning costumes that ever a tailor with the delirium tremens and seven devils could conceive of. [5]
- I had no terrors, for over my tailor's door was the legend, "By Special Appointment Tailor to H. R. H. the Prince of Wales," etc. [5]
- But as the tailor insisted that the matter would permit no delay, he invited him to step aside with him, in order not to make the councillors who were with him witnesses of the unpleasant discussion. [10]
- That night the tailor crept down into the shop, felt for the paper in the dark, found it, and carried it away to his room. [11]
- All morning the tailor chuckled to himself. [11]
- In a side street the praetor met the tailor he had knocked down, the sausage-maker, and other ringleaders of the attack on the Israelite's house. [10]
- We, an army, so to speak, stood and watched the Tailor and the Tragedy! [11]
- She saw the sleeping man on the bed, and the tailor standing over him. [11]
- He does not send me his intellectual measurements, and he might as well have sent to a Boston tailor for a coat, without any hint of his dimensions in length, breadth, and thickness. [6]
- It is this--a self-pasting scrap-book --good enough idea if some juggling tailor does not come along and ante-date me a couple of months, as in the case of the elastic veststrap. [5]
- That arch-rascal Siebenburg robbed the people of the little sense they possessed, and that cat of a candle-dealer, with her mate, the tailor, or rather his followers, poisoned the minds of the rest. [10]
- Then he turned quickly towards Charley, who, looking at the procession, then at the tailor, then back again at the procession, smiled. [11]
- This would have puzzled Mr. Hopper's tailor more. [9]
- He did not put up his hand even, but stared at the tailor, who, within a foot of him, stopped short with the iron poised. [11]
- Rosalie saw his purpose, and ran out ahead of him and down the stairs to where the tailor lay prone on his face, one hand still holding the pincers. [11]
- Let the tailor provide for the clothes. [10]
- On the shallowest pretenses he would inveigle us into shirt stores, boot stores, tailor shops, glove shops--anywhere under the broad sweep of the heavens that there seemed a chance of our buying anything. [5]
- In Marseilles you pay forty dollars for a first-class dress coat made by a good tailor, but in Leghorn you can get a full dress suit for the same money. [5]
- It is not only dangerous, but it is destructive to jacket and pantaloons to a degree to make a tailor laugh. [4]
- This man was only a tailor, dressed in fulled cloth, and no doubt his past life would not bear inspection; and she was the Notary's wife, and had said to people in the village that she would find out the man's history from himself. [11]
- In the house on Vadrome Mountain the tailor of Chaudiere had watched the storm with sympathetic interest. [11]
- If the door of the little room upstairs had opened to the fingers of the man beside her, the tailor of Chaudiere, though dead, would have been dearly avenged. [11]
- Hence the rising of tailor Ket and others, and the leveling of fences and barriers, and the eating of many sheep. [9]
- I caught sight of Davenport, the tailor, with a wry face, talking against the noise; of Banks, the man I had hired, resplendent in my livery. [9]
- In this he now demands, my son, that you restore to him, Herr Ernst Ortlieb, the two hundred silver marks which are awarded to the tailor as blood money and he must pay to the injured artisan. [10]
- He knew the Notary did not mean that he was wonderful as a tailor, but he answered to the suggestion. [11]
- Yet here was mystery, and it was clear the tailor had something important to say. [11]
- A London tailor must have cut his suit of gray. [9]
- He thinks too much--for a tailor, or for nine tailors, or for one man. [11]
- You see how much I may yet owe to him-- to this infidel tailor. [11]
- My bootmaker duns me to death--my tailor duns me --my landlord haunts me. [5]
- Clothes, of course, made some difference, and my class and generation did not wear the sombre and cumbersome kind, with skirts and tails; I patronized a tailor in New York. [9]
- I looked at Madame la Vicomtesse, and knocked again so loudly that the little tailor across the street, his shirt opened at the neck, flung out his shutter. [9]
- There, on a low table, bent over his work, with a needle in his hand, sat Louis Trudel the tailor. [11]
- His clothes always looked new, of pronounced patterns and light colours set aside for him by an obsequious tailor in Boston. [9]
- I did not know at the time that the most of the tailor shops had the same sign out, and that whereas it takes nine tailors to make an ordinary man, it takes a hundred and fifty to make a prince. [5]
- Goldsmith is but just gone hence, fresh from his tailor, Filby, of Water Lane. [9]
- Man who did it wore an eye-glass--said he was a tailor. [11]
- How he enjoyed it all, and his self-consciousness added to his pleasure, as he swung along in his well-fitting city clothes, broad-shouldered and erect--it is astonishing how much a tailor can do for a man who responds to his efforts. [4]
- His hat was in his hand; his hair was plastered down more neatly than ever, and his coat was a faultless and sober creation of a Franklin Avenue tailor. [9]
- He was dressed in complete regimentals, made by the parish tailor. [11]
- Till this minute I swear I could have told you; but in such straits a poor little tailor such as I might forget his own father's honored name! [10]
- Their pride in his lofty rank and ancient lineage lives on, in spite of his lost authority and the evil magic of his tailor. [5]
- As it was his first work for them, it was necessary for the Cure to write down the Seigneur's measurements, as the tailor called them off, while the Seigneur did the same when the Cure was being measured. [11]
- The Abbe, on his arrival, had made inquiries concerning the tailor of Chaudiere and Jo Portugais, as persistently about the one as the other. [11]
- The tailor and his adherents, as Eva knew from Herr Pfinzing, were making every effort to obtain his condemnation and prove to the city that they had not censured the proceedings of the Ortlieb household as mere reckless slanderers. [10]
- It was like him that his sense of gratitude to the unknown tailor should be presently lost in exploiting the interest he created in the parish. [11]
- The tailor begged her to allow her maid to dress her; his assistant would help her because the dresses which were only slightly stitched together for trying on, were cut, not in the Greek but in the Oriental fashion. [10]
- Having spat out her revenge, she went on to the village, and through it to her house, where she prepared to visit the shop of the tailor. [11]
- Under this tree he was M. Mallard, the infidel tailor, whose life was slowly entering into the life of this place called Chaudiere, slowly being acted upon by habit, which, automatically repeated, at length becomes character. [11]
- I told him he should leave one on the tailor. [11]
- At last, when he needed a new suit--so torn had his others become at woodchopping and many kinds of work--he went to the village tailor, and was promptly told that nothing but Luc Pomfrette's grave-clothes would be cut and made in that house. [11]
- Howbeit, when we had threatened the now barefoot knave with cruel torture, he confessed that, having been an honest tailor till of late, he had soft feet by reason that he had ever sat over his needle. [10]
- For nights she had not slept, and her approaching meeting with the tailor had made her tremble all day. [11]
- He was a great tailor-he saw exactly what I saw, and what I saw was bad; and when a tailor will do that, you may be quite sure he is a good and a great man. [11]
- Ghost or no ghost--" "Come, come, I want to know about the tailor, not of ghosts," impatiently interrupted the Seigneur. [11]
- That tailor Billings, from Tennessee, wrote poetry that Homer and Shakespeare couldn't begin to come up to; but nobody would print it, nobody read it but his neighbors, an ignorant lot, and they laughed at it. [5]
- A voice came from inside the house: "Monsieur, Monsieur--ah, come, if you please, tailor! [11]
- Gross manners even for a tailor! [11]
- It was Mrs. Flynn who gave Rosalie information concerning Charley's arrival at the shop of Louis Trudel the tailor. [11]
- Grasping the iron firmly just below the arms of the cross, the tailor held it up again. [11]
- You are a fair subject for suspicion, apart from the evidence shown," said the Abbe, trying now to be as polite as the tailor. [11]
- We were eagerly expecting them, and about three o'clock the tailor came. [10]
- Charley Steele, brilliant, enigmatic and epigrammatic, did not die at the Cote Dorion, but lived in that far valley by Dalgrothe Mountain, and became a tailor! [11]
- It was his duty to adapt himself to the mind of such as this tailor; to acquire what the tailor and his like had found--an intolerant belief and an inexpensive security, to be got through yielding his nature to the great religious dream. [11]
- By my father's doublet, but that frieze jerkin is well cut; it suits thy figure well--I would that my Lord Leicester here had such a tailor. [11]
- Wid all yer cuttin' and carvin' things to see the internals av thim, I'd do more to the call av a woman's finger than for all the logic and knowalogy y' ever chewed--an' there y'are, me little tailor o' jur'sprudince! [11]
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