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