smiths

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The copper-smiths, the coal-miners, the carpenters, the journeymen bakers, and the coach-builders!

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  • Yet, I could have sworn my ersatz companion seemed subtler, warmer, somehow The flint-smiths are ready to show their wares, chief The who I began. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 04 - April 1994
  • The uneven paves , the random and careless driving of the postillions, with whom it is a point of honour to gallop over the broken streets of the villages, besides having a strong fellow-feeling for the smiths, always makes the eight or ten posts nearest to Paris, much the most disagreeable part of a journey to or from the French capital. —  A Residence in France
  • Men whose fathers had spent their lives content in mountain sheilings, with no wish beyond their flocks and their native glens; humble artisans, smiths, and masons, who had passed in their own country for honest, patient, God-fearing men, grew as eager, as unscrupulous, as swift as the fleetest in the race. —  Janet's Love and Service
  • Gilders, painter-stainers, smiths, and joiners all helped to make the tavern-sign a thing of varied workmanship if not of art. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
  • He had also engaged masons, smiths, and carpenters, and he was to be accompanied by some of his former tenants, who well understood the cultivation of the olive-tree and vine It was in the autumn of 1833 when he was nearly ready to start, that he fell in with my father, told him his adventures and his future plans, and asked him to accompany him. —  Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet
 

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