The workmen themselves are engaged with a large marble block which is lying on the ground, and for which there is a vacant space in the wall above.
A beggar sits on the steps just outside the opening, and beyond him there are workmen busy at the building of the Temple, which, as you know, was not finished for many years after the boyhood of Jesus.
He whistled again, and at once the martial array filed through the silver and gold doorways and disappeared, after which the workmen again resumed their labors at the furnaces.
So great were their numbers that they quickly filled the immense underground cavern and forced the busy workmen to abandon their tasks.
I will pay you what is due you and then get out of this house as fast as you can go, or I swear to God I'll have my workmen throw you out!
Janina moved back a little, for just then the workmen were spreading a huge waxed canvas over the stage.
Jews of the "above-mentioned" categories of master workmen and artisans, even though they may have lived in the city for many years.
Workmen and women in numbers were hurrying in both directions.
Egremont reported that workmenwere already busy in the school-rooms and in Grail's house.
He could not live as his fellow-workmen did, coming home to satisfy his hunger and spend a couple of hours in recreation, then to well-earned sleep.
It was devised and carried simply for the reason indicated by Egremont's friend Dalmaine; a more intelligent type of workmen is demanded that our manufacturers may keep pace with those of other countries.
In beginning any new piece of work, such waste may be avoided or reduced by making trial shots with different charges and depths of hole, and noting the results; also by letting contracts under which the workmen pay for the explosive.
In France it meant originally the loose upper garment of linen or cotton, generally blue, worn by French workmen to preserve their clothing, and, by transference, the workman himself.
Naturally the condition of labour is considerably above the average, and a much better class of workmen is employed.
The best workmen we have, if we can get enough of them, are the negroes.
The night classes are intended to give workmen opportunities to improve themselves in their trades, acquiring technical knowledge of their work.
The workmenuse tub-like ladles with long handles, with which they scoop up the filth.
The Havana Provincial School of Arts and Trades is an institution for the promotion of technical knowledge among workmen and the training of youths (preferably artisans' sons) in the theories and practice of trades.
A new and important church was in process of construction, upon which some Italian workmen were employed, and an air of prosperity in this neighbourhood contrasted favourably with most portions of the island.
Surely enough, Filipino workmen were tying lengths of bamboo poles together, with tough rattan vine, for the frame of a chair.
Four tiny cells opened off the latter, and in these the fathers lodged, while the lay brothers and the workmen found apartments in the garret and the cellar.
The story was that in paying his workmen he never took from his pockets more than ten cens at a time, and the men, thinking he must have a large number of the coins upon his person, murdered him for the booty.
At first only workmen appeared in the line, then small shopkeepers, and later professional men.
We moved into the Legation immediately after my arrival in Brussels, although the workmen were still in the house.
The workmen were in their last entrenchments on the great stairs on the 23d, and then fortunately disappeared forever.
The same high standards of efficiency by which Belgian workmen made a national reputation for their various manufactures showed also in the cultivation of the ground.
One day while the workmen were excavating in the garden they came to announce to Carl that they had found a few feet under the earth a vault of which no one knew the existence.
Fodere mentions some workmen who were buried alive fourteen days in a cold, damp cavern under a ruin, and yet all lived.
The narrative reads somewhat after this manner: One day a number of workmen belonging to Tacura Tuyn while engaged in cutting grass had their mules attacked by some Guayacuyan Indians.
He ate almost instantly a dinner that had been prepared for 15 vigorous workmen and drank the accompanying water and took their aggregate allowance of salt at the same time.
The workmen pursued the Indians but only succeeded in capturing a boy of eight.
All were in scientific investigators or workmen about the light, who approached it too closely or gazed at it too long and without the colored protecting spectacles now found necessary by such workers.
From the contents of the dipping-pans fumes constantly arise into the faces of the workmen and dippers, and in cutting the sticks and packing the matches the hands are constantly in contact with phosphorus.
Chevalier mentions that through contact of the drug workmen in the manufacture of quinin are liable to an affection of the skin which manifests itself in a vesicular, papular, or pustular eruption on different parts of the body.
The workmen painted in his papyri made shoes for him and cooked his food; they carried him to hunt in the deserts or to fish in the marshes.
The workmen did not see the entrance of the latter, and were, in fact, unaware of its existence until they encountered it in the bowels of the rock.
She leaves to workmen the task of excavation and of building its walls and confines herself to the visible parts of the tomb.
It is even possible that Greek workmen may thus have been introduced into seaport towns, and there employed upon the decoration of palaces and temples.
Workmen could only have kept their footing upon such a surface, with its 51 or 52 degrees of elevation, by means of a complicated arrangement of ropes and ladders.
The workmen employed upon the excavations christened it the serdab, or corridor, and their name has been generally adopted.
One would say that from the shores of the great ocean and the Baltic to those of the Mediterranean, all the workmen laboured for the same masters.
It would, therefore, not be very difficult to obtain a site for such little oratories as were required for the scanty population, for the soldiers in the nearest military post, for the engineers and workmen in some neighbouring quarry.
The glory of the workmen who built the Great Pyramid is the masonry of the Grand Gallery, the gallery which opens immediately into the vestibule of the King's Chamber.
There had been one delay and another, but at last all the workmen had been expelled, and Margaret was mistress of her house.
The workmen on the height joined in the conversation.
Some of them proved more industrious than was expected; "but ten good workmen would have done more substantial work in a day than ten of them in a week.
With the unerring instinct of workmen in regard to antiquities, they thrust a crowbar through it, and broke the bowl into several pieces.
But suppose a man does play the hypocrite so as to deceive the officers, who know him as well as any employer knows his workmen or any teacher knows his scholars, and deceives the independent board so as to get a parole.
The Halifax Club House is a blaze of light, for the Governor-General is being received there, and workmen are still busy decorating the Provincial Building for the great ball.
Now he has been at work with the Episcopal churches of the city, and got them to agree, when they want workmen for any purpose, to employ only union men.
Great numbers of foreign workmen were employed in its finishing and decoration.
We certainly shall not have better workmen by having ignorant workmen.
In the course of clearing the grounds, the workmen found a spring, whose water was so particularly nasty that they at once suspected it to possess curative qualities of the greatest value, and so reported it to the proprietor.
And now, though the workmen dug away at the ruins as vigorously as ever, they found nothing but broken timbers, stone, and mortar.
As the captain spoke, a dozen workmen threw down their tools and started on the errand.
The workmen contribute no dues to the fraternities.
The entire output today can in no case be more, for difficulties of all kinds and the shortage of workmen and material have grown during the war.
By the removal of these tools, the efforts made by the manufacturers in order to maintain a certain activity in the plants are nullified, numerous workmen are obliged to remain idle and are facing starvation.
Workmen and peasants from 18 to 40 years old were to be trained for eight consecutive weeks, for a weekly minimum of eight hours.
It is in the matter of jewelry particularly that the ability and the training of the old Egyptian workmenare most evident.
In everything, however, the workmenhad a chance to do beautiful work.
These workmen of the Middle Ages taught in the technical schools of that olden time had chances for happiness, chances that were well taken, such as perhaps no other generation of workmencould have.
All this organization of the workmen was accomplished by the university men of the time.
It would be quite incredible to think that these workmen developed their artistic craftsmanship without training, and therefore there was at least the germ of a technical school or set of schools in oldest Egypt.
There must have been many a spoiled piece {162} rejected, not so much by the foreman as by the critical, educated taste of the workmen themselves who were able to make such beautiful things.
Pittsburg, for instance, set up the claim that while great fortunes were made there the workmen were paid better wages than any place else in the world.
This represents the triumph of a technical training afforded by the gilds of workmen of the olden time.
He told sad stories of the reception that had been accorded to some of his assistants at the time that they were obtaining data from workmen on the question of the limitation of the family!
Particularly was this true in cases of violence and of strikes or boycotts by unions in support of workmen in other trades at far distant points.
The refusal of the operators to confer, and the propriety of the conduct of the workmen made a wide impression that was favorable to the union.
Equally important was the effect on the workmen themselves.
With the introduction of machinery, the danger of accidents due to the ignorance or carelessness of fellow workmen increased.
A New York court in 1887, for example, held that the law of the state permittedworkmen to seek an increase of wages by all possible means that fell short of threats or violence.
Cases had not been unknown where employees were kept at their posts for thirty, fifty and even one hundred hours; frequently such workmen fell asleep and disastrous accidents occurred.
The hordes of unemployed workmen and the swarms of tramps which had resulted from the continued industrial depression of 1873 insured rioting and violence during the strike, whether the strikers themselves favored it and shared in it or not.
Nearly four and a half million persons, a railroad president estimated in 1915, were at that time interested in the industry as employees, as workmen in shops making railroad supplies, or through the ownership of stocks and bonds.
And so would my friends; they can't get workmen of any kind.
I've just had word that the workmen are finally out of the house; though the grounds, of course, are in bad shape, and will probably remain so.
In 1907 a lower jaw, known now as the Heidelberg or Mauer jaw, was discovered by workmenin the sand-pit of Mauer near Heidelberg.
For some twenty years, Dr Schoetensack kept in touch with the workmen of Mauer, and thus when the jawbone was found, he was summoned at once.
The 14th of February, I began to victual all the shipwrights and workmen employed upon the Merhonor and Defiance at Woolwich.
Then, having marked such trees as were fittest our purpose, our workmen were disposed of to their several charges, and began to fell, square, and saw with all the expedition we could.
Gnyphon heard, as he went by, a conversation between two workmen who were weighing mortar into a sack-- "Why did you become a Christian?
The workmen were carrying up a heavy slab of marble, an antique bas-relief, stolen many years before and discovered in the hovel of a cobbler whose kitchen oven it had served to repair.
So long as the workmenwere working at the ruins and demolishing the old walls, all went well.
It was therefore pierced by numerous galleries, for the use ofworkmen in transporting the tufa.
Then, if one of the striking workmen had set the fire, he would have selected one or more of them.
I hope you noticed, sir, that when it came to volunteers for the bucket-gang a lot of your workmen stepped up.
They were large and clumsy, rude of outline, and had obviously been made by a pair of heavy shoes such as workmen wear--and they might have been worn by any one of a million workmen!
Coming to a place in the suburbs where workmen were digging a peculiar trench, the general inquired, "What are they digging here?
Yet he had neither wood nor workmen for building his palace and the temple; he borrowed them of Hiram, king of Tyre, who also furnished gold; and Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in payment.
They became what the workmen chose to make them:" but might not this be observed of all statues?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "workmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
