harnessmaker

Although rumor had it in latter days that I was the by-blow of some wizard, the truth is that my father was a harnessmaker in the palace stables, as was his father before him.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

Right after he acquired her and the mule Buck-or they acquired him-he discarded the savage curb bit Learner had used (salvaging the metal) and had the Jones Brothers 'harnessmaker convert the bridle into a hackamore.

Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

Can a man sit at a desk in a skyscraper in Chicago15 and be a harnessmaker in a corn town in Iowa and feel the tall grass coming up in June and the ache of the cottonwood trees singing with the prairie wind?

Portrait. VI. Accomplished Facts 1920

He went to the city and apprenticed himself to a harnessmaker.

The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know Thomas Forsyth Hunt 1894

People said that Reuben, the harnessmaker, was bound to come to the front.

The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know Thomas Forsyth Hunt 1894

"Now -- NOW," clamored the other, turning to the harnessmaker, as though this explained everything.

McTeague Frank Norris 1886

McTeague could not hear the talk that followed between him and the harnessmaker, but it seemed to him that Marcus was telling Heise of some injury, some grievance, and that the latter was trying to pacify him.

McTeague Frank Norris 1886

The bells are made by harnessmaker Mervin Martin, who makes the harnesses and sleighbells worn by the Farm's workhorses.

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a definite craft and combined farming with the trade of a blacksmith, mason or harnessmaker. 19 Traditional attitudes placed a premium on skills which, like capital, were imported, and associated with a white skin, though not regarded in the Cape as the white man's prerogative.

Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Ch.1 Ray Esther 1969

" I could certainly imagine myself kneeling before a Greek or Roman master, or a harnessmaker in Damascus, his Christian slave, in the 14th Century, or a Barbary prince, a captured, harem-silked English lady who had not had time to learn something of the touch of men, in the 19th, and doing so.

Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986