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Example sentences for "good workman"

  • He lit a cigarette and stared at the candle, smiling with the pride of a good workman at the thought of his plan that had worked so neatly.

  • So Jonah, who was a good workman, and content to make three or four days in a week, suited him exactly.

  • He moves about in it uneasily, like a man unaccustomed to be clothed by a good workman.

  • There is a saying that a good workman is known by his tools, and another that a poor workman is always complaining of his tools, that is, excusing his own incompetence by throwing the blame upon his tools.

  • It takes a good workman to turn out a really successful round-bottomed boat (except by the use of canvas), therefore a few simple types of flat-bottomed boats are all that are treated here.

  • Son of Matthew, Edinburgh, was also a good workman--died in 1856, from accidentally falling down stairs.

  • A good workman, but not equal to the second William Forster.

  • If the fullering be continued round the toe of a shoe by a good workman neatness is given, but when a clip is drawn the iron is so reduced that some wear is sacrificed.

  • In this way is supplied the tuition which used to be obtained by apprenticeship to a good workman.

  • For he was above all things a good workman, and like all good workmen he felt a pride and an interest in all the jobs he took in hand.

  • Certainly the best man is almost always a good workman at his own trade.

  • He must have been a good workman and a promising boy, one may be sure, or his masters would never have countenanced such a revolutionary proceeding on the part of a raw apprentice.

  • This process, called pickling, is both delicate and disagreeable, requiring a good workman, at high wages.

  • I am indebted for most of the details given in this chapter to the late Alfred Tubbs, son of James, and a good workman, who died comparatively young in 1909.

  • A good workman, but not equal to the other makers of the name.

  • A good workman, whose best bows, though not well known in this country, are of nearly equal merit with his brother Dominique's.

  • It is easy for the practiced eye to see these apparently small things, for they constitute a great part of the difference between a good workman and a bad one.

  • It is an old saying, that a bad workman quarrels with his tools, but a good workman has a right to quarrel with bad tools, if he is furnished with them, through chance or design.

  • There is no tool more efficient in the hands of a good workman, than the diamond point, Fig.

  • Always a rattler, it is a pity, for he is a good workman.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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