handicraftsman

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We could not help wishing that some rural grandee, who avows that he hates all manufacturers, could see this fair specimen of an English handicraftsman.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

It is but natural that the handicraftsman, once released from his bonds, should have desired to share these privileges, more particularly as the old aristocratic régime constantly became more assertive and presumptuous.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

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)

Nor mine," said the Knave; "but no doubt you are a handicraftsman.

From Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

The old-type handicraftsman and small merchant are obviously menaced by modern industrial and business methods, and the peasant masses are in little better shape.

From The New World of Islam by Stoddard, Lothrop