chisellers

Their laughter was scornful: what in the name of the Lord God Almighty was the MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South doing at a garden party with Rupert Murdoch and his fell host of media chisellers and panderers?

Our Labour party needs to find its nerve again | Kevin McKenna 2011

There are so many chisellers in this business that we make it our policy to approach the author first direct — if he wants to take any ten-percenters in afterwards, that's his affair.

The Saint on Guard Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1943

I'm talking about the chisellers and the vermin who followed mining-they didn't care what, so long as they could unload it on somebody.

Making A Mine In Canada 1935

I know when I go down to New York and get mixed up with the chisellers, I always feel it in my mind -- I think that everybody is wrong and I always want to shake everything.

Making A Mine In Canada 1935

So skilfully were they placed that the unobservant put them down as wrinkles on the countenance of a homely, middle-aged woman; but he who read as he ran saw that the lines about the eyes were quizzical, shrewd lines, which come from the practice of gauging character at a glance; that the mouth-markings meant tolerance and sympathy and humour; that the forehead furrows had been carved there by those master chisellers, suffering and sacrifice.

Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

The diocese of Hippo had to deal with many houses and immense _fundi_, upon which lived an entire population of artisans and freed-men, agricultural labourers, and even art-workers -- smelters, embroiderers, chisellers on metals.

Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

Most chisellers seem to copy their acanthus leaves from the cabbage in their soup.

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

Old chisellers say that no one can model anything wholly bad in red wax, and there is truth in the saying.

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

Of all the twenty chisellers of various ages who hammered from morning till night in the rooms outside, one only -- Gianbattista Bordogni -- had been thought worthy by his master to share the privacy of the inner studio.

Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster 1881

A bunch of stuck up pirates and cheap chisellers who lived by the lie and in the end couldn't manage the loot.

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