| 1. | "And so much the better for us--a bob and a tanner instead of a bob.. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 2. | I see them I see them There's Best's son, the tanner o. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | Not like a tanner lunch we have, boiled mutton, carrots and turnips, bottle of Allsop. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | In the same manner a third becomes a smith or a brazier a fourth, a tanner or dresser of hides or skins, the principal part of the clothing of savages. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 5. | Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee. - from The King James Bible |
| 6. | Faith, if he be not rotten before he die,--as we have many pocky corses now-a-days that will scarce hold the laying in,--he will last you some eight year or nine year a tanner will last you nine year. - from Hamlet by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | By subsequent statutes, our tanners have got themselves exempted from this monopoly, upon paying a small tax of only one shilling on the hundred weight of tanned leather, weighing one hundred and twelve pounds. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |