Artisan

Examples

• His clothes, hung above him, showed that he had been himself conscious of his danger--they were clothes that had disguised him as a French artisan. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This we remark in the case of the artisan, but, ludicrously enough, do not apply the same rule to people of the richer sort. Plato. The Republic.
• It was a period of his life corresponding to the Wanderjahre of the German artisan, and was an easy way of gratifying a taste for travel without the risk of privation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But Gutenberg was not quite ready to give away his secret, and so he answered evasively, The name of the artisan does not appear. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Setting up for oneself ceased to be a normal hope for an artisan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Their express purpose was the improvement of all professions from the highest general to the lowest artisan. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The town artisan rioted indeed, but only locally. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He found the English artisans of that time great guzzlers of beer, and influenced some of his co-workers to adopt his ow n more abstinent and hygienic habits of eating and drinking. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Then carpenters, and smiths, and many other artisans, will be sharers in our little State, which is already beginning to grow? Plato. The Republic.
• Foreign artisans and servants do everything by couples: I believe it would take two Labassecourien carpenters to drive a nail. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• His father took him to visit the shops of j oiners, bricklayers, turners, braziers, cutlers, and other artisans, thus st imulating in him a delight in handicraft. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It must be borne in mind that the laboratory is only the core of a group of buildings devoted to production on a huge scale by hundreds of artisans. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Poor aristocrats would marry rich members of the mercantile class; ambitious herdsmen, artisans, or sailors would become rich merchants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The problem was great, as the fields abroad had been filled for generations by skilled artisans who had reduced the complicated mechanism of watch-making to a fine art. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Then more husbandmen and more artisans will be required? Plato. The Republic.
• Much of the charm of old plate was in its beauty of form and design, for the work attracted the best of English artisans. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Particularly abundant were the freedmen, slaves set free, for the most part artisans, but some of them traders, who were growing wealthy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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