master workman
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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)
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 journeyman, for instance, voluntarily retards his marriage until he has become a master workman, and once he has attained that degree, he "works the golden mine of his trade."
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
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)
W. Howard, vice-president of the American Railway Union, and James R. Sovereign, grand master workman of the Knights of Labor.
From The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by Burns, W. F.
