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This fact is sufficiently indicated by a glance at the perquisites of the village Chamar, who is almost invariably the shoemaker and leather-worker for his little community.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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Except that he was born in the Bavarian centre of art, culture, and commerce, and that his father, Michael, was a well-to-do leather-worker, little is known of his early life.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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While, however, different questions have arisen among them, a certain one named Theodotus, by trade a money-changer [to be distinguished from the other Theodotus, who is commonly spoken of as Theodotus, the leather-worker], attempted to establish the doctrine that a certain
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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And how is it that they are not ashamed to speak thus falsely of Victor, knowing well that he cut off from communion Theodotus, the leather-worker, the leader and father of this God-denying apostasy, and the first to declare that Christ is mere man.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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Both of them were disciples of Theodotus, the leather-worker, who, as I said, was the first person excommunicated by
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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The leather-worker must have learnt to make many a kind of fashionable shoe, and the dyer to work in violet, scarlet or saffron, in any shade or colour to which fashion had given a temporary vogue.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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He was a leather-worker, and was always surrounded by a pleasant smell of tar and leather.
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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V. naturally changed him to a tailor as the Chßmßr or leather-worker would be inadmissible to polite conversation.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The miscreant assaulted a steward, but the man is also a fine leather-worker, so he's valuable.
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The miscreant assaulted a steward, but the man is also a fine leather-worker, so he's valuable.
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