marble-cutter

The marble-cutter, unable to overcome the obstinacy of the frugal Teuton, and unwilling to set up such a monument of his ignorance of spelling, compromised the matter by conforming to the current orthography, and inserted the superfluous consonant for nothing.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

A marble-cutter told me once, that a Pennsylvania Dutchman came to him one day to have an inscription cut upon a gravestone for his daughter, whose name was Fanny.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various

Whether it be a slave like Æsop, a beggar like Homer, a peasant like Raphael, or a marble-cutter like Socrates, we see them at last wearing the diadem of a brilliant success.

A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece Charles Stewart Given

Rochester, N.Y., where he attended the public schools, and in 1853 went to work as a marble-cutter.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Among the men in this institution was pointed out to me a marble-cutter, who was a thoroughly respectable, self-supporting workman.

White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Louis Albert Banks 1894

It is an outrage that this marble-cutter, and others like him, are fed more shabbily than if they had been convicted of a crime.

White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor Louis Albert Banks 1894

Suppose that Ricketts, the marble-cutter, should fail to inscribe the date of his death in the space left vacant for it!

Tales from Bohemia Robert Neilson Stephens 1886

Three months thereafter, Ricketts, the marble-cutter, untied the knot in the stocking that had been Billy's and deposited the contents in the local savings-bank.

Tales from Bohemia Robert Neilson Stephens 1886

He was a marble-cutter, and the marble-cutters were out on a strike.

The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886

"I'll go to-day to Ricketts, the marble-cutter, and order my own tombstone."

Tales from Bohemia Robert Neilson Stephens 1886