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Meanings of tallow-chandler in English
Synonyms
Examples for "chandler"
Examples for "chandler"
1
The chandler had given them a flint striker to light the torches.
2
Personally, I snuggled up against the chandler and let my attention wander.
3
Someone came out of the chandler's shop and stood in the archway.
4
In the wax-chandler's attic, another Keeper is putting on Mr. Palmer's braces.
5
But to be a chandler is something worthy of any man's ambition.
1
Benjamin's father was a soap-boiler and candle-maker.
2
The Massachusetts-based candle-maker withdrew its $450 million five-year senior unsecured bond and pulled a $950 million concurrent term loan, sources told IFR.
3
One of the first of these was the candle-makers' guild, organized at Paris in 1061.
4
It turned out that the old gentlemen were candle-makers who had retired from business and now had considerable difficulty in passing their time away.
5
Shops catered to the worship and upkeep of the temples: candle-makers, funerary houses, dealers in rare aromatic woods and spices for incense and embalmment.
Usage of tallow-chandler in English
1
But it is folly to linger over the limitations of the tallow-chandler's son.
2
These were candles of various colors in a tallow-chandler's window.
3
A great tallow-chandler's son got into the regiment, and committed some heresy at mess.'
4
A Northern laborer, a Yankee tallow-chandler's son,- aprinter'srunaway boy!
5
He has since married the wife of some tallow-chandler.
6
Like the retired tallow-chandler, I might wish to go back "on melting days."
7
Yet here he was, a full-blown tradesman, and as greedy of gain as any tallow-chandler.
8
That seemed to promise more than to go into business by the aid of only a tallow-chandler.
9
He was the son of a tallow-chandler.
10
Clement examined the specimen brought by Brunel, and pronounced it to be "mere tallow-chandler's work."
11
My campaign commenced at Birmingham; and my first attack was on a rigid Calvinist, a tallow-chandler by trade.
12
He was a very wealthy tallow-chandler.
13
I wonder how he came here, said a retired gentleman, who had been a tallow-chandler on Holborn Hill.
14
It used to be so, for I remember Mrs. Wiggins, the tallow-chandler's widow, living in old Stanhope's house.
15
I am convinced Sarah lived with a retired tallow-chandler, or something equally horrible, before she came to us.
16
I had but little schooling, being taken home at ten years to help my father's business of tallow-chandler.