iron-founder

There is no finer, more succinct example of this aspect of his character than Brown's concluding letter to Frederick Huxham, the iron-founder with whom he had a six-month quarrel over the pricing of a saw-mill:

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

The particular beef-slaughterer or iron-founder thus favored could not hope of his own ability thus to obtain a contract.

The Financier 2004

All it had to do was to organize to do that, obtain a charter, secure a contract for supplying such material to the city from the city council (which Strobik, Harmon, and Wycroft would attend to), and then sublet this to some actual beef-slaughterer or iron-founder, who would supply the material and allow them to pocket their profit which in turn was divided or paid for to

The Financier 2004

The particular beef-slaughterer or iron-founder thus favored could not hope of his own ability thus to obtain a contract.

The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

The young iron-founder was looking up into the eyes of beguiling when he said this, and, being a mere man, he wondered what made them flash and then grow suddenly fathomless and brooding.

The Price Francis Lynde 1893

On the contrary, so much of the motive as had any bearing upon his relations with the young iron-founder sprang from a generous impulse to free

The Price Francis Lynde 1893

"I don't understand it either," returned the iron-founder, with grave naïveté.

The Price Francis Lynde 1893

His hand was still in the coat pocket when he parted from the young iron-founder on the sidewalk.

The Price Francis Lynde 1893

"So far as Griswold is concerned, you wouldn't notice that there is a partnership," laughed the iron-founder.

The Price Francis Lynde 1893

Raymer's way, had picked up the iron-founder and brought him along to the business appointment.

The Price Francis Lynde 1893