master workman
Example Sentences
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In Lincoln Cathedral there are two fine rose windows, one made by a master workman, and the other by his apprentice, out of the pieces of stained glass the former had thrown aside.
From Strange Pages from Family Papers by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)
"Don't want him," said the master workman, "he has got a bad mark."
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by Cole, E. W. (Edward William)
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
The little man raised his hands, and as he did so, both young men noticed how prehensile and delicate they were—the hands of a master workman.
From Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger
In a day of haphazard fiction and rodomontade criticism, the advent of a master workman is likely to be unheralded, if, indeed, he is fortunate enough to find a publisher to put him between covers.
From Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin by Starrett, Vincent
