Workman

Examples

• Safety clutches are numerous, by which the machine is quickly and automatically stopped by the action of electro-magnets should a workman or other obstruction be caught in the machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the long run, the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him; but the necessity is not so immediate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His eyes shone, and his cheek was flushed with the exhilaration of the master workman who sees his work lie ready before him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This led his eager mind to delve into Italian literature, and shortly the young workman was not only draughtsman and artist, but something of a man of letters as well. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Each of those machines, with a boy as an attendant, will fold 2,700 envelopes in an hour, which is nearly the same number that an experienced workman can fold in a day with a folding stick. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Such a workman at the rate of a thousand nails a-day, and three hundred working days in the year, will make three hundred thousand nails in the year. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This process of puddling lasted for about an hour and a half and entailed extremely severe labour on the workman. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• One workman is seen cutting a long strand from a hide which he turns round as he cuts, while another man walks backward with this, twisting it as he goes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The strength of the blow depends on the hardness of the metal, and when one part is harder than another the workman alters his blows accordingly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I'm a member o' the Union; and I think it's the only thing to do the workman any good. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In spinning fine numbers of yarn, a workman in a self-acting mule will do the work of 3,000 hand-spinners with the distaff and spindle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But why more than any other workman? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He was an expert and efficient workman in whatever he undertook; and was, both from habit and principle, prompt and faithful. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman, is not that of his corporation, but that of his customers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A highly educated man cost very little more than a workman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Servants, labourers, and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We cannot give our workmen a monopoly in the foreign, as we have done in the home market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In many factories where phosphorus is used without great care workmen have been greatly affected thereby. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We have described how by Cort's puddling process tremendous labour was imposed on the workmen in stirring the molten metal by hand with rabbles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He applied to a Mr. Atherton, and the latter, although he considered the venture a hazardous one, sent him two workmen to help in building his first machine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Many of these pioneer students and workmen became afterward large and successful contractors, or have filled positions of distinction as managers and superintendents of central stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What a variety of labour, too, is necessary in order to produce the tools of the meanest of those workmen! Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Through the window was seen the interior of a cathedral, undergoing partial repair, with the figures of two or three workmen resting from their labour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Now the bell had been ringing all the morning, as workmen, or servantsor _coiffeurs_, or _tailleuses_, went and came on their several errands. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In it is a marble chair which Helena used to sit in while she superintended her workmen when they were digging and delving for the True Cross. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is said that the Swiss watch passed through the hands of one hundred and thirty different workmen before it was put upon the market. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Oh, my friends and fellow-sufferers, and fellow-workmen, and fellow-men! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Though the workmen were now growing more weary and disheartened with each new volume they undertook, Gutenberg would not give up. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They even profit by his underselling the poorer workmen who deal in the same way with him. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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