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  • A glass-cutter and a climbing harness took you all the way.

    It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010

  • They were specially designed by Timothy Carder and hand cut by a master glass-cutter, Peter O'Rourke.

    CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2009 2009

  • A small glass-cutter on the desk confirmed that Markel had planned this.

    A Long Day for Dying Patrick A. Davis 2003

  • A small glass-cutter on the desk confirmed that Markel had planned this.

    A Long Day for Dying Patrick A. Davis 2003

  • A small glass-cutter on the desk confirmed that Markel had planned this.

    A Long Day for Dying Patrick A. Davis 2003

  • A glass-cutter and a climbing harness took you all the way.

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Jik exchanged the glass-cutter for a metal saw, a hammer and a chisel, and shut the boot, and we walked through the unorthodox entrance as if it was all in the day's work.

    In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

  • We walked back to the entrance to the gallery, Jik carrying the sort of glass-cutter used by, among others, picture framers.

    In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

  • The tenant below me, it will be remembered, was a glass-cutter.

    James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

  • I may mention in passing that the flat below mine was in the occupation of a glass-cutter, whose glass-cutting lathes and grindstones were supplied with power from the same upright shaft that was to serve me in the same manner on the flat above, Encouraged by the support of William Grant, I immediately entered into a contract for the premises as a yearly tenant.

    James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

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