printery

Example Sentences

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Now that the government has built a new printery and a $3,200,000 bitumen plant, the board has to rush construction of the first schools so men can be trained to staff them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why, we can't run that printery without you.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James

Even after the presses started up they went on surreptitiously, though near one group of them in a dark corner of the printery lay a careless heap of cotton waste, thoroughly soaked with machine-oil.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James

There are many things you think wrong about the printery and the printery's head—things you would not talk of face to face, as business time is precious and spoken words are sometimes hard to bear.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James

When the lad was fourteen years old, we find him setting type in his father's printery.

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