smithies

Here are the barbers 'shops, the physicians' offices (if the good leech is more than an itinerant quack), and all sorts of little factories, such as smithies, where the cutler's apprentices in the rear of the shop forge the knives which the proprietor sells over the counter, the slave repositories, and finally wine establishments of no high repute, where wine may not merely be bought by the skin (as in the main Agora), but by the potful to be drunk on the premises.

A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life William Stearns Davis 1903

By the Song dynasty 960–1279, smithies were so expert at steel production they could equip an army of a million men with swords, armor, and steel-tipped arrows.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

If, for instance, my spreadsheet tells me that five different characters shoe horses throughout the book, and if the story does not involve a trip on horseback of several thousand miles between smithies, I would be tempted to make all five the same character.

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By the Song dynasty 960–1279, smithies were so expert at steel production they could equip an army of a million men with swords, armor, and steel-tipped arrows.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

If, for instance, my spreadsheet tells me that five different characters shoe horses throughout the book, and if the story does not involve a trip on horseback of several thousand miles between smithies, I would be tempted to make all five the same character.

Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Naming names, part II: wait, wait, don’t tell me — the protagonist is the guy with the torch, right? 2010

By the Song dynasty 960–1279, smithies were so expert at steel production they could equip an army of a million men with swords, armor, and steel-tipped arrows.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Compared to the pale and fashionable Lord Dervishton, MacLean looked uncivilized, even a bit wild, as if his Scottish ancestors came from the battlefields and smithies, not a castle.

The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

Compared to the pale and fashionable Lord Dervishton, MacLean looked uncivilized, even a bit wild, as if his Scottish ancestors came from the battlefields and smithies, not a castle.

The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

Compared to the pale and fashionable Lord Dervishton, MacLean looked uncivilized, even a bit wild, as if his Scottish ancestors came from the battlefields and smithies, not a castle.

The Laird Who Loved Me Karen Hawkins 2009

Curious little public – houses — and smithies — and that.

Great Expectations 2007