Carpenters
[kɑ:pintəz]
Examples
- On Thursday the manufacturer hired a neighbouring building and set carpenters at work fitting it up. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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.
- Plato gave his account of knowledge on the basis of an analysis of the knowledge of cobblers, carpenters, players of musical instruments, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I only wish Tom had known his own mind when the carpenters began, for there was the loss of half a day's work about those side-doors. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Its reparation was esteemed a light task, carpenters' and glaziers' work alone being needed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Forms going up--carpenters coming down--lamps, glasses, harps. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But if the expense of this entertainment had been employed in setting to work masons, carpenters, upholsterers, mechanics, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Five hundred carpenters and engineers were immediately set at work to prepare the greatest engine they had. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Nor is the spirit of the laboratory work represented in the following dialogue overheard between two alleged carpenters picked up at random to help on a hurry job. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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