tent-makers

"Would it mean naught to thee if in thine own province thy hewers of stone and builders of ships, thy tent-makers and herdsmen and corn growers should secretly unite and rise against thee?"

The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock

But sometimes, as in the case of those caterpillars which live in companies, it is used to form a sheet or tent within which the tent-makers dwell.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

Aquila and Priscilla were tent-makers, and lived at

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Yes, psychic power in its varied manifestations is found in humble quarters, but surely that has been its main characteristic from the beginning -- fishermen, carpenters, tent-makers, camel drivers, these were the prophets of old.

The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

Yes, psychic power in its varied manifestations is found in humble quarters, but surely that has been its main characteristic from the beginning -- fishermen, carpenters, tent-makers, camel drivers, these were the prophets of old.

The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

There were silversmiths at work, tent-makers, and the makers of camel harness.

Old Junk 1915

Therefore in the smithies and among the groups of tent-makers a moment's negligence, a careless attention to the work, might lead to a brief trial on the morrow and the inevitable guillotine.

I Will Repay Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

Why these are they whose disciples we are; the fishermen, the publicans, the tent-makers, of Him who was brought up in the house of a carpenter; and who deigned to have the carpenter's betrothed wife for a mother; and who was laid, after His swaddling clothes, in a manger; and who had not where to lay His head; -- of Him whose journeys were so long that His very journeying was enough to tire

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

And are the twelve fishermen and tent-makers and publicans wiser than all these?

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

Then one of the two men said, 'Let us join partnership together, and set up here as tent-makers for a time.'

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868