leather-worker love

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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • V. naturally changed him to a tailor as the Chßmßr or leather-worker would be inadmissible to polite conversation.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The miscreant assaulted a steward, but the man is also a fine leather-worker, so he's valuable.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

  • The miscreant assaulted a steward, but the man is also a fine leather-worker, so he's valuable.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

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