The rest were the lives and memoirs of famous courtesans, including those of the Madame de Breze, to whom the watchmaker always referred with a mixture of pride and levity,--but not when his wife was in hearing.
With an air of comic drama, though he did not intend it to be comic, the watchmaker flung the telegram upon the crowded table.
On a rain-washed board above her head was painted "John Breezy, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Founded in 1760 by Armand de Breze.
The three men in the interior were, one a doctor from Troyes, the second a watchmaker from Geneva, the third an architect from Bourg.
The watchmaker from Geneva was the first to speak.
A Genevese watchmaker is bending to his work at a bench covered with tools.
The other two were a bank-clerk and the old watchmaker of the Schillerstrasse.
James, watchmaker and jeweller, 19 Queen street Day Joseph, bootmaker, 15 Lower Ranelagh st Day Rbt.
Considering the Watchmaker in the Small Shop of One or Two Workmen.
The contents of these chapters can be worked out in practice by almost any workman who is capable of holding a position as watchmaker and it is substantially necessary that they be mastered before finished results are to be expected.
This refers to positive execution of the correction which the watchmaker sets out to make.
My father, after the birth of my only brother, set off, on recommendation, for Constantinople, and was appointed watchmaker to the Seraglio.
This cadging rascal would very rarely have occasion to present himself as a casual pauper at the Union workhouse, but had he done so, he and the unfortunate watchmaker would have been treated on perfectly equal terms.
The immediate cause of his distress was that he had received notification that employment at his trade of watchmaker was open to him at Evesham.
The watchmaker was strong on the division of functions: one man was valuable in counsel, another in the field; he belonged, he said, to the former category.
His friend the watchmaker came with him, to have a bit of supper and exchange congratulations and fulminations.
Oh, there's nothing in it," said the watchmaker reassuringly.
Portable watches, in which coiled springs took the place of the pendulum, had indeed been introduced, but the mechanical ingenuity of the watchmaker could not suffice to produce very dependable time-keepers.
In 1809, however, a Viennese watchmaker named Degen revived interest in attempts at mechanical flight by inventing a flying-machine which consisted essentially of two parachutes.
A strong friendship grew up between the watchmaker and the scion of the Old Regime.
It was the shop of a watchmaker and constructor of mechanical toys.
D'you mean the poor devils who believe in the watchmaker and his 'new time'?
Up the street the crazy watchmaker was standing on the edge of his high steps, swinging a weight; it was attached to the end of a long cord, and he followed the swinging of the pendulum with his fingers, as though he were timing the beats.
The master allowed himself to be quite carried away by Anker's talk as long as it lasted; but as soon as the watchmaker was on the other side of the door he shook it all off.
While I waited and looked on I presently recognized in this watchmaker an old acquaintance--a steamboat engineer of other days, and not a good engineer, either.
In 1584 watches began to come from Germany, and the watchmaker soon became a trader of importance.
As he was playing with this fine watch, the watchmaker begged that he would take care not to break it.
The old watchmaker now resembled the fallen angel, defiant in the presence of the Creator.
The old watchmakerwas upright in the middle of the room, which resounded with the roaring of the river.
It was under these circumstances that the young girl undertook her father's conversion; and her influence was so effective that the oldwatchmaker promised to attend high mass at the cathedral on the following Sunday.
Excepting at this precise moment, he seemed to become a part of all the conversations in which the old watchmaker was talked of; and people asked each other, in terror, what relation could exist between him and Master Zacharius.
By this plan the watchmaker at last succeeded in entirely despoiling himself.
The old watchmaker was, little by little, passing away.
It had been noticed that for some time the old watchmaker had neglected his religious duties.
From morning till night discontented purchasers besieged the house, and they got access to the old watchmaker himself, who knew not which of them to listen to.
The old watchmaker permitted himself to be led like a child, or rather like a blind man.
Vainly did the watchmaker try to replace them; the wheels remained motionless.
The old watchmaker was buried in the midst of the peaks of Andernatt.
So it came about that the old watchmaker at last perceived that he was not alone in the world.
The old watchmaker wound and wound the key, without stopping a moment, and it seemed as if the movement were beyond his control.
But people were beginning to forget the existence of the watchmaker of Crossen, when one evening, in the autumn of 1831, a traveller entered one of the best frequented inns at Berne, in Switzerland.
The house of his next door neighbour took fire, and the watchmaker was suspected of being the incendiary.
Then the lid is complete, and any watchmaker will hinge it on for you.
If you cannot do this yourself a jeweller or watchmakerwill do it for you.
Benson, the little old watchmaker on the corner, gave me that.
This he put on, taking particular pains to select a very plain cravat, and to fasten in it with care the scarf-pin bestowed upon him by old Benson, the little watchmaker on the corner below.
The watchmaker knew him to be an eminent engineer, and asked how he had acquired so extensive a knowledge of a branch of business so much out of his sphere.
The watchmaker may remove those parts of the watch which are suffering from organic trouble, and replace them by new ones.
Behind the bar sat a person with strongly-marked Hebrew features, and a watchmaker was plying his avocation in a corner.
The watchmaker was an enterprising young fellow, who had resigned his place in a large Broadway establishment, to speculate in cheap jewelry and do itinerant repairing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watchmaker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: annalist; chronicler; diarist; maker; timekeeper; timer
