type-setting
Example Sentences
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There were knitting machines and clothing machines, and carving and molding machines, and type-setting machines, till the day was spent and they had seen only how much there was to see.
From The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs by Stevens, C. M. (Charles McClellan)
He was not then a practical printer, though later he learned the art of type-setting.
From The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights by Hume, John F. (John Ferguson)
Think of a woman's calling clear-starching and ironing domestic drudgery, and to better the matter turning to type-setting in a grimy printing-office!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 by Various
The Appeal carried few employees, but Mr. Burgess might have no objections to starting Eugene as a reporter if he could write, or as a student of type-setting, or both.
From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore
Monday, Rule was at work, type-setting in the Watch office.
From For Woman's Love by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
