master workman

"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 man whom I am working for is name Myers; but I expect to go to work for another man by name of Tinsly, who is a master workman in this city.

From The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by Still, William

The experience which grows out of the sentence constitutes him a creator, a master workman, and lifts him into a higher region of life.

From Misread Passage of Scriptures by Brown, James Baldwin

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 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