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  • The throng parted, and the tanner's lad came out, walking slowly between priest and judge.

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  • Inside were three things: a note, unaddressed and unsigned, a small package addressed to Jamie, and the cured skin of a wolf, smelling strongly of the tanner's arts.

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  • Then I glanced at the plinth, where the tanner's boy, in spite of encouragement from the regathered crowd, was still firmly pinioned.

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  • Pithy, you wake up the lime burner's children and the tanner's babes with your harmonica.

    forestry 2010

  • He had in his custody a youth, perhaps twelve years old, whose ragged trews and smelly shirt proclaimed him a tanner's lad.

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  • I spoke absently, for my mind was still on the tanner's lad.

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  • The water was scalding and tasted like the waste swill from a tanner's shop, but we drank it all the same, and it was an effort to keep from gulping.

    Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010

  • In those days the tanner's work was highly valued.

    Legends and lore of Oaxaca: A man named Crecencio 2007

  • In those days the tanner's work was highly valued.

    Legends and lore of Oaxaca: A man named Crecencio 2007

  • The citizens sought to insult William by hanging animal skins from the walls in reference to his ancestry as the illegitimate son of Duke Robert and a tanner's daughter.

    Archive 2008-08-10 de Brantigny........................ 2008

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