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- noun Alternative spelling of
glassworks .
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Examples
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Then pneumonia laid hold of the feeble lungs within the contracted chest, and he lost his job in the glass-works.
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Then pneumonia laid hold of the feeble lungs within the contracted chest, and he lost his job in the glass-works.
THE APOSTATE 2010
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Finally, fate intervened in the sudden home-coming of her father, who had been seriously injured by an accident at the glass-works in Youngstown where he worked.
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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Thus they lived from day to day, each hour hoping that the father would get well and that the glass-works would soon start up.
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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The owner of the glass-works, who had been spending the evening with us, had an adventure on his road home.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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The ancient Phoenician remains found in the island of Sardinia by Cavalier Cara in 1856 show fine color in their enamels and glass-works.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various
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We were met by various camel-parties carrying kali for the glass-works of
Byeways in Palestine James Finn
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St. Ambroix, pop. 5000, on the Cèze, H. Luxembourg, is a town with silk-mills and glass-works.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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Almost trembling between triumph and contrition, he had been seized with the virtuous resolve to quit speculation for honest industry, and his investment in these glass-works was the result.
Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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We waited for the Diligence at some little glass-works at the entrance of the pass, and then let it go on first, as a sop to those gentlemen if they should be out that day.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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