gas-fitting

It was on an occasion when I had had to turn to with a view to victuals, that I found myself walking along the Waterloo Road, one evening after dark, accompanied by an acquaintance and fellow-lodger in the gas-fitting way of life.

Somebody's Luggage 2007

We cleaned out the cellars, fixed the shelves, distempered the walls, polished the woodwork, whitewashed the ceiling, stained the floor; but the main work, the plumbing and gas-fitting and electricity, was still not done, because the PATRON could not pay the bills.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

We cleaned out the cellars, fixed the shelves, distempered the walls, polished the woodwork, whitewashed the ceiling, stained the floor; but the main work, the plumbing and gas-fitting and electricity, was still not done, because the patron could not pay the bills.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

That plug where at some time a gas-fitting had been fixed up in the wall -- you remember?

The Green Eyes of Bâst Sax Rohmer 1921

The brothers give special attention to the trade school of the protectory; printing, press-feeding, book-binding, baking, shoe-making, tailoring, plumbing, gas-fitting, and other trades are taught with excellent results.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

The Oxford student learns nothing of chemistry, physics, heat, plumbing, electric wiring, gas-fitting or the use of a blow-torch.

My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906

A dozen pale jets of a miserable iron gas-fitting hanging out of the shadows of the roof struggled in the gloom, leaving the outlines of the

A Mummer's Wife 1892

We've got several plumbers on, and I believe there's a little gas-fitting work in, but next to nothing in our line. '

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

Our young folks do everything that is needed by the theatre, with their own hands; scene-designing, scene-painting, gas-fitting, electric work, costume-designing -- costume making, everything and all things indeed -- and their orchestra and its leader are from their own ranks.

Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910) Mark Twain 1872

Our young folks do everything that is needed by the theatre, with their own hands; scene-designing, scene-painting, gas-fitting, electric work, costume-designing -- costume making, everything and all things indeed -- and their orchestra and its leader are from their own ranks.

Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872