| 1 | My father was a shoemaker, and my mother was a housewife. | |
| 2 | His father, a poor shoemaker, died in 1816. | |
| 3 | A ship means marriage to a sailor, a shoe means she'll wed a cobbler, and so on. | |
| 4 | In the middle of the village lived an old shoemaker's wife; she sat down and made, as well as she could, a pair of little shoes out of some old pieces of red cloth. | |
| 5 | Mr Zhu, a shoemaker from Foshan, near Hong Kong, is on his second trip to Africa. |