Painter

Examples

• Finish one picture, sir, and you are a painter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He chose the trade of a lapidary, or polisher of precious stones, an art which in that age was held in almost as high esteem as that of the painter or sculptor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The group that stood in various attitudes, after this communication, were worthy of a painter. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Tom himself began to fret over the scene-painter's slow progress, and to feel the miseries of waiting. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• And the work of the painter is a third? Plato. The Republic.
• He was a good musician, a skilful draughtsman and painter, something of a poet, and had shown considerable talent in designing and building a variety of toy machines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• First, he says that the poet or painter is an imitator, and in the third degree removed from the truth. Plato. The Republic.
• He drew plans for machinery, he designed houses and carriages, he worked as professional painter. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You mean perhaps to be a painter? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Gurt pulled this in easily by the painter, and then bade Crispin get into it, so as to keep it off from the wall as it was towed along. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Of the painter we say that he will paint reins, and he will paint a bit? Plato. The Republic.
• These sketches gave him a local reputation, and his friends were not surprised when at seventeen he left Lancaster to seek his fortune as a painter of portraits and miniatures in Philadelphia. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• And the painter too is, as I conceive, just such another--a creator of appearances, is he not? Plato. The Republic.
• And your painter's flesh is good--solidity, transparency, everything of that sort. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He had hung out his sign as Painter of Miniatures at the corner of Second and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia, under the friendly patronage of Benjamin Franklin. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• These ancient painters never succeeded in denationalizing themselves. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In his desire for the greatest subjects for his windows and the finest treatment of them, Bernard turned to Italy, the home of the great painters, and copied their works. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You'll find a fire in the vestry, on account of the painters. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Are there painters in New York? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• We poor painters have none to spare. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Have you any poets, painters, sculptors? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It looks in at the windows and touches the ancestral portraits with bars and patches of brightness never contemplated by the painters. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Allston took him to England, and there introduced him to Benjamin West, the dean of painters and a man who was always eager to aid young countrymen of his who planned to follow his career. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I know one or two painters, very good fellows, that I could bring to see you if you'd allow me, said Archer boldly. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The light, the shade, the harmony of colours, the vice of English painters, the striking characters of Dutch artists--_Ma foi! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The pecuniary recompence, therefore, of painters and sculptors, of lawyers and physicians, ought to be much more liberal; and it is so accordingly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The various actors are selected, parts are assigned, and the scene-painters are set to work on the production of the desired scenery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She had been a model to the painters. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The duties on glass, paper, leather, painters' colours, tea, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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