gold-beater

Since the time of _Richard Feverel_, which I shall always consider his best, "of the very best" as ZERO of the Monte Carlo Bar has it, G.M. has developed into a gold-beater of epigrams.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 Various

But, being a Londoner, he was more probably a gold-beater, or perhaps

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

A gold-beater, named Crozier, one of those prison-murderers, bared his sinewy arm and boasted of having killed four thousand persons with his own hands.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

He had experienced the common lot of young artists in those days, and had been apprenticed to a gold-beater, but preferred the profession of painter.

Fra Bartolommeo Scott, Leader, 1837-1902 1881

Heine family must once have lived, a gold-beater and a frame-maker displayed their signs.

Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3 William Dean Howells 1878

Heine family must once have lived, a gold-beater and a frame-maker displayed their signs.

Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

He had experienced the common lot of young artists in those days, and had been apprenticed to a gold-beater, but preferred the profession of painter.

Fra Bartolommeo Leader Scott 1869

(It had been previously used to advertise a blacksmith, a gold-beater, and a stone-mason.)

Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation Bret Harte 1869

Verocchio's "David," a lad of some seventeen years, has the lean, veined arms of a stone-hewer or gold-beater.

Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

Oh, mighty Nature, let others rely on the painter, the gold-beater, the carver of marble, come you and help me adorn the temple of my beloved.

Foul Play Charles Reade 1849