1 Geborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse cloth, serges, and woollen galloons.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 2 Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's single-bordered, imitation India shawl of Ternaux's manufacture, on his arm on Sundays.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR 3 This industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw material, which reacted on the manufacture.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKE... 4 It was thus that he had, when occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen factory at Boulogne, the flax-spinning industry at Frevent, and the hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR 5 Madeleine, had, thanks to the new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 6 In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made the fortune of an entire city.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 7 And now the Emperor himself wished to see the costly manufacture, while it was still in the loom.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 8 His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 5. The Marriage-Feast. 9 Signor Pastrini drew from his fob a magnificent Breguet, bearing the name of its maker, of Parisian manufacture, and a count's coronet.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 10 But now the Confederate ports were stoppered with Yankee gunboats, only a trickle of blockade-run goods was slipping in from Europe, and the South was desperately trying to manufacture her own war materials.
11 He had even invented some, to which he had given fantastic names, and for whose manufacture he required diverse ingredients that it devolved upon Edna to procure for him.
12 Her form was concealed in many wrappers of the same simple manufacture, and her face was shut forever from the gaze of men.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33 13 Since my last return I find the breed is considerably increased, especially the sheep, which I hope will prove much to the advantage of the woollen manufacture, by the fineness of the fleeces.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII. 14 In some stages of his manufacture of the human fabric, the processes of Time are very rapid.
15 And so he would now study perfumes and the secrets of their manufacture, distilling heavily scented oils and burning odorous gums from the East.