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And not only this, for it requires a glass - blower to take the place of a striking glass-blower, while any kind of a striker or out-of-work can take the place of a ditch-digger.
THE TRAMP 2010
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At least you could say something like "Philip Twitterton, a mild-mannered glass-blower from Sydney, has just murdered his ex-model wife with a box of kitty litter, and is now wondering how to remove - in secret - the smelly, bloated body of the 400 pound woman from his apartment..."
Archive 2007-03-01 Glenda Larke 2007
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Here are atoms of silica, once imprisoned in a layer of flint in the subterranean darkness; later, within the fragile shell of a diatom, tossed by waves and warmed by the sun; and again entering into the exquisite structure of a radiolarian shell, that miracle of ephemeral beauty that might be the work of a fairy glass-blower with a snowflake as his pattern.
Undersea (historical) Rachel Louise Carson 2007
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Your father, you said, was a glass-blower by trade.
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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A succession of misfortunes, of which this little scene might have been called the tragic culmination, had taken place in the life and family of William Gerhardt, a glass-blower by trade.
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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“I believe your mother said he was a glass-blower by trade?”
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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That showed he used to be a glass-blower before he made his money.
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That showed he used to be a glass-blower before he made his money.
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It was he, my Uncle Ron, who named his enterprise Logan Glass, and he who drilled into me an embryonic business sense and an awareness that anything made by one glass-blower could in general be copied by another, and that this drastically lowered the asking price.
Shattered Francis, Dick 2000
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Irish, in spite of enthusiasm, would never be a top-rated glass-blower.
Shattered Francis, Dick 2000
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