handicraftsman
Example Sentences
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There I go every Saturday night, when the museum is open later than usual, to see the handicraftsman, the wood-worker, the glass-blower and the worker in metals.
From Miscellanies by Ross, Robert
He is handicraftsman in that he guides and directs them by his skill within the scope of activity to which they are designed.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
In Rome, for a free citizen to have been a handicraftsman would have been a disgrace; he could be farmer, banker, soldier,—nothing more.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns
Other striking resemblances are found between the names for handicraftsman and master-builder in widely distant countries.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia
Even where the final step of substituting the factory for the home had not been taken the subordination of the handicraftsman to the master who provided the materials and paid the wages was tolerably complete.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)
