handicraftsman

Example Sentences

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That of a book involves two other demands mutually so contradictory that bookbinding has always offered a most attractive challenge to the skill of the handicraftsman.

From The Booklover and His Books by Koopman, Harry Lyman

The shopkeepers in this and every other town, must break and starve: For it is the landed man that maintains the merchant, and shopkeeper, and handicraftsman.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Swift, Jonathan

In respect of her education and her character she had not risen a hair's breadth above the sphere of the handicraftsman.

From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

He is now fast becoming extinct also—that is, as a distinct handicraftsman spending his whole time in such trapping.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard

For such a piece of work as moving this statue could only have been undertaken by some handicraftsman.'

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas