James Pressman was one of the few slave masters that looked upon the slave with a certain degree of compassion, to whom Marriah was fortunate, to be owned by.
Although slavery in its self was cruel; but the fact that Mr. Pressman was generous and kind to the slaves that he owned, because of necessity in the process of his farming, should not be overlooked.
I do not wish to impress the idea that Mr. Pressman did not approve of slavery, but only his general attitude toward his slaves was different from the majority of the slaves holders.
The continued pacing to and fro of the pressman from ink-table to press, from press to ink-table, no doubt suggested the nickname.
David had inherited the physique of his father the pressman and the flat foot of the Gael.
Chapter XIII Mr. Tengo-Jabavu, the Pioneer Native Pressman Egotists cannot converse; they talk to themselves only.
In the cut at the head of this article, the pressman is represented as in the act of turning down the frisket upon the tympan.
When I hear the merry pressman chatting about little wars and proudly looking down on "mere skirmishes," I cannot restrain a movement of impatience.
All the old cuts of presses represent the pressman tugging at the bar with a force which seems out of all proportion to the size of the form.
Contrary to modern usage, the piles of white paper and printed paper are unhandily placed on the off-side of the press, and the stalwart pressman pulls home the bar with both arms.
The pressman could not print one page truly and squarely on the back of another page.
This neglected information has been unwittingly furnished by a careless pressmanin the office of Conrad Winters, who printed at Cologne in 1476.
The early press was rude, and the method of printing was unscientific, but in many offices the pressman was superior to his press and his method.
The use of anything damp to clean the cuts when the pressman finishes his day's-work, is to be avoided; as a very small degree of damp is sufficient to cause the block to warp when left locked up over night in the form.
By thus inserting the names, either cast as complete words, or composed of separate letters, the tedious process of engraving a number of letters on wood was avoided, and the pressman enabled to print the maps at one impression.
If then the form containing such cuts be printed first, the paper being perfectly flat, and without any indentions, all the lines will appear distinct and continuous, unless the pressman should grossly neglect his duty.
A second impression is next taken, and in this the pressman cuts out the lighter parts, and notes such as are too indistinct and require bringing up.
When the deviation from a perfect level at the bottom is not so great as to attract the notice of the pressman previous to taking an impression, the block not unfrequently yields to the action of the platten, and splits.
It was on this occasion that he exclaimed, when the pressman handed him the proof, "I wish I was but twenty years younger!
These floods occur quite frequently, and your pressman soon learns to live for weeks almost up to his waist in water.
This is the stuff on which the Australian pressman is fed up.
The pressman by my side said `No,' to my question.
I got mixed up in that crowd seething with an animosity as senseless as things of the street always are, and it was while I was laboriously making my way out of it that the pressman of whom I spoke was jostled against me.
Memory besides supplies me with the face of a pressman (in the sacred phrase) who proved altogether too modern for one of his neighbours, and Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum as it were, marshalling us our way.
I put the best talent of San Francisco on the job: Harry Miller, the brightest pressman in the city.
The pressman laughed and slapped Dad on the back, and asked "How do you feel, old boy?
Let's have a look at the tooth, old man," the pressman said, approaching Dad.
The pressman shook hands with him, and in no time Dad was laughing and joking over the operation.
Then Dad got talking about wheat and wallabies--when, all at once, the pressman gave a jump that rattled the things on the table.
The pressman told Mother she ought to be proud of Dad.
The pressman stared at him for awhile; then grinned at the storekeeper, and made a derisive face at Dad's back.
Canty, the storekeeper, looked up quickly, and the pressman looked round slowly--both at Dad.
She was grateful that the pressman had little to say as they sped through dimly lighted residential streets.
The picnic was well under way by the time Penny and the pressman arrived at the river cottage.
However, as she drove toward the river cottage she kept thinking about what the old pressman had told her.
Mr. Parker signed the order, inquiring teasingly: "Have you engaged yourpressman yet?
The pressman had proven to be worth many times the small salary which the girls paid him.
There was very little pose about the pressman of the jocund days.
But I have never heard that the seminary in question turned out any pressman of eminence or even of uncommon aptitude.
If I describe the London Press and the London Pressman of less than two decades ago, I am describing a state of things that has been reformed off the face of the earth, and a race of men extinct as the Dodo.
This, however, was probably a brevet rank conferred by the pressman on Cornet Heald.
Lumley was tactful enough to leave the pressman alone with the star.
The defenders of the press and pressman were only girls, but they were girls evidently not afraid to shoot.
They said the machine was so complicated it required an expert, and unless an experienced pressman could be secured the paper must suspend publication.
The girls went home at dinner time, but they sent Arthur to the office at midnight to see if the new pressman was proving capable.
A knowledge of platen presswork does not qualify a man to run a cylinder press, and as a rule the platen pressman who wants to change must serve some time as a cylinder pressfeeder and cylinder pressman's assistant.
The boy who wants to become a pressman must pick up the trade through experience and practice, the length of time required depending chiefly on how frequently changes occur among the force of pressmen employed in the shop.
Time, in this case, was driving the pressman as fast as the rapid stream drove the boatman of the Rhone; and the speed with which they worked was killing them as quickly.
That the trade of a pressman is daily becoming one more of skill than of drudgery.
But the camel was on its legs now, and the young pressman was safely seated upon one of the fliers of the desert.
But assuredly I was not prepared to concur in this shielding silence; the pressman within me demanded an explanation.
The copy-hunting pressman is not readily excluded, and a few moments later I found myself in an extremely untidy bedroom, the walls of which were decorated with sporting prints, Kirchner drawings and photographs of many damsels.
As a pressman you will probably disagree with me, but I propose to suppress these two pieces of evidence.
He was a pressman in the employ of Mr. Calhoun, the publisher of The Chicago Democrat.
The cylinder press was ordered from New York, Mr. Johnson having accepted Calhoun's offer as pressman for him, he went to Chicago at the same time, where he put up and operated the new press.
The ex-pressman had no belief in his son; he judged him from the outside point of view, and waited for results.
The Pressmantook his hat and accompanied the footman.
Some months had passed and our American Pressman had recorded impressions from St. Petersburg to Madrid.
The safest thing for the pressman is to have on hand, as a reserve, a set of old, hard rollers.
A practical pressman says that a sheet of paper wet with glycerine and used as a tympan-sheet will prevent off-setting.
I am the only pressman who knows them, and I have good reason for keeping my knowledge to myself!
