master workman

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Yes," said the master workman, "noble Death, "Your coffin shall be strong—that leave to me— "But who shall these your funeral dues discharge?

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip

Then I was by him, as a master workman: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him.”

From The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

The manufacturer was not a capitalist, but simply a master workman.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

No, a hectoring, hard-mouthed, long-sworded Italian builder, as vain as a peacock and as strong as a bull, but, mark you, a master workman.

From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard

The entrance end of the Louvre was for a long time in an unfinished state, but was afterwards completed by that master workman, the Emperor Napoleon.

From Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by Brown, William Wells