Workmanship

Examples

• He gave me my watch and chain, and spared no expense in buying them; both were of superior workmanship, and very expensive. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Allow me to tell you that by-and-by this style of workmanship will be the only one in vogue--half-a-crown, you said? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In France, the workmanship, as you pay for it, adds to the value, in the same manner as to that of wrought plate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They were armed with crooked sabres, having the hilt and baldric inlaid with gold, and matched with Turkish daggers of yet more costly workmanship. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The treasures here, by simple weight, without counting workmanship, were valued at fifty millions of francs! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Some of the workmanship on bone was extraordinarily fine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He wore silk socks, and studs of fine workmanship, and silk underclothing, and silk braces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He has an English frame, but, apparently, not an English mind--you would say, an Italian stiletto in a sheath of British workmanship. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The royal family, in spite of their many faults, were sincere lovers of beautiful workmanship, and they summoned Palissy to Paris, where they could insure his safety. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The institution of long apprenticeships can give no security that insufficient workmanship shall not frequently be exposed to public sale. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Though her eyes were closed, one could easily imagine the light necessarily shining in them as the culmination of the luminous workmanship around. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In manufactures they outdid the world in variety and beauty of design and perfection of workmanship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But have you remarked that sight is by far the most costly and complex piece of workmanship which the artificer of the senses ever contrived? Plato. The Republic.
• When a building seems clumsy and tottering to the eye, it is ugly and disagreeable; though we be fully assured of the solidity of the workmanship. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

Typist: Manfred