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Example sentences for "journeyman"

Lexicographically close words:
journeyed; journeyers; journeyeth; journeying; journeyings; journeymen; journeys; journies; journy; jours
  1. The journeyman sometimes lived with his master, sometimes had a room of his own in another part of the town.

  2. Glancing into the dimly-lighted shop, you might see the master working at his trade, with a journeyman and an apprentice.

  3. Then artisans found their way to the town, associated themselves with others of their craft, and accepted the relation of journeyman in the employ of a master workman; there, too, the young apprentice learned his trade without remuneration.

  4. The craft guilds successfully disputed with their rivals for a share in the government of the city; there was democracy in the guild, for master and journeyman were both included, and they had interests much in common.

  5. A journeyman confidently expected to become a master in a workshop of his own.

  6. After all, you see, I'm a journeyman playwright now, and I have to labour at my unholy calling just like the theatrical carpenter.

  7. In fact, whenever I meet a good man of any sort, anywhere, I always begin now by inquiring which of his immediate ancestors can have been a journeyman shoemaker.

  8. After his death his wife Lia and the servant-maid Hennele being confronted with Sarah Bresin, made a public confession; the fugitive journeyman glover, Rebbe Liebmann, was also produced and confessed.

  9. Whilst this barbarity was going on, Lia, the stepmother of Simon, together with the journeyman Rebbe Liebmann, were occupied in the next room making gloves.

  10. The journeyman is the official of his master, the housewife has the office of the keys, and every work develops even in the smallest circle a domain of moral duties.

  11. This fear was much increased by the journeyman glove-maker, Rebbe Liebmann.

  12. As it is, his best plays are but the good journeyman work of one who is a skilled literary craftsman.

  13. He was well known as a journeyman of letters, so well known for bookmaking, and the ways of getting commissions from London editors and publishers, that his knowledge of Highland life would be questioned.

  14. He had started in life as a journeyman shoemaker at eighteen, burdened with a payment to his first master's widow which his own kind heart had led him to offer, and with the price of his second master's stock and business.

  15. From the Scriptures alone, while yet a journeyman shoemaker of eighteen, "he had formed his own system," and had been filled with the divine missionary idea.

  16. Then I proceeded to tell how the journeyman treated me; how they would not suffer me to send for any of my friends; how afterwards they found the real thief, and took the very goods they had lost upon her, and all the particulars as before.

  17. It is now forty years since I worked, like you, at this press, as a journeyman printer.

  18. I am glad to see you back again," said Keimer, as his old journeyman made his appearance; and he shook his hand as if his heart was in it.

  19. Gronnow, a journeyman shoemaker, was charged with pawning eight pairs of ladies' shoes intrusted to him for making up.

  20. A journeyman hatter stripped and jumped into the river, and, by his strength and skill in swimming, saved a great many lives.

  21. I will be prudent and hold my peace,' said the young journeyman quietly.

  22. He said'-- The journeyman sprang up hastily, and put his hand before the lad's mouth.

  23. The journeyman sat silent for the rest of the evening.

  24. He placed his mother carefully in a warm corner, sat down beside her, and then began: 'Rudorf the journeyman is in bed at our house with a broken leg.

  25. Hillner, the journeyman carpenter, was still a free man; for Jüchziger had determined to find some other way of satisfying his thirst for vengeance, and had therefore laid aside his schemes till a more convenient season.

  26. Did either your worship or any of our other worthy magistrates give orders for every armed journeyman to receive a gulden a week and two pounds of bread a day?

  27. And then there's that brazen-faced journeyman I haven't paid off yet for his impudence in the forest; it seems as though I am not to get a hold on him.

  28. He wrote the words down, and noticed that as soon as the journeyman had read them he became even paler than before, and muttered something between his set teeth.

  29. James Stock, and his journeyman Will Simpson, as I informed my readers in the second part, had resolved to work together one hour every evening, in order to pay for Tommy Williams's schooling.

  30. This time the meeting struck him forcibly, filled him with suspicion to such a point that he also stopped and resolved to watch the journeyman engineer.

  31. And in this ill-dressed fellow Pierre was astonished to recognise Salvat, the journeyman engineer, whom he had seen going off in search of work that same morning.

  32. When Pierre got as far as the Summer Circus he was much surprised at again seeing Salvat, the journeyman engineer, on one of the avenue seats.

  33. I slighted the journeyman fond,' quoth she, 'But where is my gallant of high degree?

  34. To preserve herself, however, from destitution, or what she considered worse, she wedded a journeyman carpenter, named Sheppard.

  35. The celebrated ordonnances had the immediate effect of throwing a multitude of journeyman printers out of work, and it was by these men that in one part of the city the insurrection was commenced.

  36. On the 19th of August a journeyman painter named Bougneux sent word to the Assembly that there had recently been constructed in the Palace of the Tuileries several masked cupboards.

  37. This instrument had been made for her and presented as a valued gift by a journeyman mechanician with whom she had at one time been as good as engaged.

  38. A poodle dog once followed me for three entire days, on leaving the town of Ulm, and at last I was forced to leave it in charge of a peasant, since I as an humble journeyman combmaker could not afford to feed such a creature.

  39. At the same time, he will be fairly loyal to his old mates, the journeyman fitters, and treat them with superior respect.

  40. He was apprenticed at Cheltenham and made a journeyman at Gloucester.

  41. I am a journeyman mechanic and making good wages, and yet, somehow or other, I feel that I am in the wrong place.

  42. Henry George nearly starved himself and his family to death trying to make a living as a journeyman printer.

  43. And to make matters worse, a master workman could not employ a journeyman out of his shop; so that, if a journeyman could not get a regular situation, he had no work.

  44. In a second the journeyman was on the window sill.

  45. The journeyman jumped down incautiously into the yard.

  46. Big James and the journeyman rushed instinctively from the centre of the floor towards him.

  47. The journeyman turned the handle, and the bed of the machine slid horizontally forward in frictionless, stately silence.

  48. In free life, it takes a young man from five to seven years to become a journeyman mechanic.

  49. No human creatures were left save the wife of a freebooter and her paramour, a journeyman blacksmith.

  50. No boy can set up as a journeyman here after a couple of years' experience, as they do in America.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "journeyman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.