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A necessary adjunct of the stove is a pan, which can be made by any handy man or tinworker, which should be made to fit the bottom of the stove above the gas jets, it being arranged that it rests on two side ledges, or along some rods.
Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing William N. Brown
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The tinworker had drunk up the shop and had left his wife to bear the load by herself.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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The tinworker, who had followed her, explained to her how the thing worked, pointing out with his finger the various parts of the machine, and showed the enormous retort whence fell the clear stream of alcohol.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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"All right!" said the tinworker, jesting to hide his real emotion.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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His father, who was a tinworker like himself, had fallen one day from the roof of No. 25, in La Rue Coquenaud, and this recollection had made him very prudent ever since.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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Gervaise and Coupeau, the tinworker, were eating some brandied fruit at the Assommoir.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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