As soon as Amos and Jim showed themselves, the shower of missiles ceased, and the mischief-makers stepped aside to give them free passage.
The trouble is these munition makers here won't sell to Germany.
The Government is not preventing the munition makers from selling to Germany.
As dress-makers in Havana are scarce, dear, and bad, our fair friends at the hotel make up these dresses mostly themselves, and astonish their little world every day by appearing in new attire.
Perhaps polished manners are a better proof of virtue in an age than of vice, though system-makers do not hold so: at least, decency has seldom been the symptom of a sinking nation.
If it was not too long to transcribe, I would send you an entertaining petition of the periwig-makers to the King, in which they complain that men will wear their own hair.
There are about thirty basket-makers among the Havasupais, and specimens of their work may be found in the Hopi House.
For the aboriginal makersof legends are the child minds of the race in active operation.
In this chapter it will be impossible to give more than a passing allusion to the less-known makers of the eighteenth century, but to those who wish to pursue the matter in more detailed manner the Bibliography annexed (p.
To those interested a list of woods used by cabinet-makers with their botanical names is given in Mr. J.
Among other names are those of Shearer, Darly, and Gillow, all of whom were notable designers and makers of furniture in the period immediately preceding the nineteenth century.
There are traditions of duck-shot having been used, and there is little doubt that holes were drilled by makers who knew their public.
Certain localities seem to have produced peculiar types of chairs which local makers made in great numbers.
Before dealing with Sheraton in detail, the names of some lesser known makers contemporary with him may be mentioned.
Kitchen furniture or cottage furniture was made on the same lines by makers all over the country.
The sea-rovers were the makers of modern Portugal.
In one thoroughfare you will find harness-makers and hatters busily employed; in another goldsmiths and jewellers ply their trade.
Alcibiades, "the versatile Athenian," friend of Socrates, was another of the makers of Athens.
While Donatello was living, Stoss, Krafft and Vischer were gaining repute as image-makers in stone, wood, and bronze.
Now suppose that themakers of any of our leading brands of florin balls were at this stage to reduce the price of their specialities to a shilling each.
It is right and proper that the makers of golfing goods should practise their commercialism to the utmost extent of their capacity outside the area of the game, but not inside our doors.
By all means improve our present sort of balls, which is what makers are doing, and incidentally they are making them go a little farther, which is excusable.
The time to see it at its best is in the spring, and it is fine again in the late autumn, when the mere holiday-makers have gone back to their cities and workshops.
We are enabled, by the gracious permission of Her Majesty, to illustrate the lace fan presented by the Worshipful Company of Fan-makers to Queen Alexandra for use on Coronation Day, 1902.
From Cabriolets it is but a step to Incroyables, who had their incredible cabriolets as well as their racehorses with slim legs and tails cropped almost to the root, the fan-makers indulging the public in their new-found Anglomania.
Wolfe's victory in 1759, commemorated in Bow statuettes and Staffordshire busts and jugs, supplied the fan-makers also with a subject for illustration: in a life of Wolfe it is mentioned that fans were printed of the taking of Quebec.
The fan-makers were not slow in following up with a fan.
A family of almost equal fame was the group of violin makers of Cremona, the Stradivari.
But speaking of violinists, what would become of them if there never had been makers of violins, especially such luthiers as the Amati?
Among the many men who acted a conspicuous part as "makers of our country," Benjamin Franklin holds a unique and interesting place.
Only the leading events of certain periods and the personal achievements of a few representative "makers of our country" are treated in any detail.
The Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Teutons are the only makers of history, the only authors of advancement.
When the inflow of merry-makers had ceased, bewildered, trembling, she looked with blanched face toward the spot where the soldier had been standing, but he was gone.
Tom, Dick and Harry, and their honest butchers, bakers and candlestick-makers of forefathers, permitted an acquaintance that accorded with his views governing social intercourse.
Now these colours were mixed by the best makers with amber varnish of the purest and clearest consistency, and both colours and varnish are perfectly free from that muddy sort of appearance which so often disfigures modern instruments.
Had Magini, Gaspar di Salo, and other very old makers used as little wood as some of their successors, where would their instruments have been now?
The scrolls are larger than those of Amati but of the same type, There are many splendid violoncellos of these makers and a few tenors.
There are many whose makers are not known, and also third class instruments of good qualities, which can be obtained from L10 to L25.
They possess a delicate graceful tone of wonderful sweetness, which has also been more or less the chief characteristic of the other makers of this family.
Considered to be one of the best makers of Germany.
From their great age, the instruments of these two great makers are now very rare.
The labours of many eminent violin makers who have followed in the steps of the great masters have of late so immensely improved the art, that a good instrument may now be possessed by any one.
In England the violin makers in the beginning of the eighteenth century, mostly copied the pattern and model of Steiner.
Those who desire to make themselves acquainted with the chief characteristics of the great Cremona makers should take every opportunity of examining genuine instruments.
There were manufacturers of whips and hats, and wheelwrights and makers of thread.
At the end of the seventeenth century this city already contained a hundred master watchmakers and eighty master jewelers, and the products of her manufactures soon became known and appreciated by the whole world.
To produce the curved pattern I show you, nothing more is necessary than to bend the tin pattern on a block of the right shape, and we now get a pattern which would puzzle a good many pattern-makers of the old style.
I only need instance wire card-making and the brazing shops of wire cable makers to show that a large and free use of gas is compatible with the strictest economy and profitable working.
Jane was completely exhausted and lay for a moment with her eyes closed while the crowd of holiday makers closed in around her, praising her and lauding her to the skies.
I coughed and awoke the echoes, but the hay-makers never looked at me.
But the New Englanders were still the chief makersof books.
Mr. Kipling and other cunning ballad-makers have imitated the peculiar rhyme structure chosen by the nervous little parson.
Blessed are the peace-makers for they are the children of God.
When the work of the treaty-makers is done the work of the law-makers will begin.
For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
We have challenged your spinners in Massachusetts and your iron-makers in Pennsylvania.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "makers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
