gasfitter

The secret life of the gasfitter suggests the poem's maker, laboriously fitting words and sentences into a pattern befitting turbulent feelings and metaphysical dilemmas, as in the ninth poem of "The Gasfitter":

Great Regulars: "Fitter" suggests "maker," the Greek root Rus Bowden 2007

Mrs. Sieppe knew a gasfitter in Oakland who had won several times; once a hundred dollars.

McTeague 1920

A gasfitter, when working in the house, saw the same figures no less than nine times, and so distinctly that he was able to give a detailed description of both the man and dog.

Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter Elliott O'Donnell 1918

Mrs. Sieppe knew a gasfitter in Oakland who had won several times; once a hundred dollars.

McTeague 1899

There is no occasion for a plumber or gasfitter either, and as for water and fuel, they are everywhere to be had for the taking.

The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Various 1899

Mrs. Sieppe knew a gasfitter in Oakland who had won several times; once a hundred dollars.

McTeague Frank Norris 1886

'Elsmere has never told you of Charles Richards, the little gasfitter, who has been his right hand for the past three months?'

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

The little gasfitter was clearly all nervous fidget and expectation; the other, large and gaunt in figure, with a square impassive face, and close-shut lips that had a perpetual mocking twist in the corners, stood beside him like some clumsy modern version, in a commoner clay, of Goethe's 'spirit that denies.'

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

'Wait a bit!' said the gasfitter, his quick dark eyes betraying a certain raised inner temperature.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

He was a young man, a gasfitter -- to judge by the contents of the basket he seemed to have brought in with him on his way from work -- with eyes like live birds ', and small emaciated features.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885