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  • noun Plural form of harnesser.

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Examples

  • But here they come, in all the pomp and certitude of power, and still they come, these men of steel, these war lords and world harnessers.

    CORONATION DAY 2010

  • And behind, all down the island-studded Alaskan coast, even to the Horn, were yet ten thousand more, harnessers of wind and steam, hasteners from the ends of the earth.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • They were, she said, kingdoms unto their own selves, harnessers of the night and of every evil thing that made their home in the darkness.

    The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • Because there is where he would find the tanjian, the harnessers of the night and of every evil thing that made its home in the darkness.

    The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990

  • It is now conceded in Ploid that the storage batteries of the home can be supplied as economically and effectively by winds and the sun's heat as by running streams; hence it is a common sight to see residences throwing out the old water machinery and introducing the latest design of wind-employers or sun-harnessers.

    Life in a Thousand Worlds William Shuler Harris

  • But here they come, in all the pomp and certitude of power, and still they come, these men of steel, these war lords and world harnessers.

    Coronation Day 1903

  • And behind, all down the island-studded Alaskan coast, even to the Horn, were yet ten thousand more, harnessers of wind and steam, hasteners from the ends of the earth.

    A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896

  • But here they come, in all the pomp and certitude of power, and still they come, these men of steel, these war lords and world harnessers.

    The People of the Abyss Jack London 1896

  • The boys are up to everything; they are carpenters, and plumbers, and trouters, and harnessers, and drivers; H. has just learned to solder, and saves me no little trouble and expense by stopping leakages; heretofore every holey vessel had to be sent out of town.

    The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882

  • The boys are up to everything; they are carpenters, and plumbers, and trouters, and harnessers, and drivers; H. has just learned to solder, and saves me no little trouble and expense by stopping leakages; heretofore every holey vessel had to be sent out of town.

    The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George L. Prentiss 1859

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