pewterer

Though quite why he had it in for Henry Burgum the pewterer was a mystery—oh, Burgum was a dyed-in-the-wool villain, but what precisely had he done to Mr. James Thistlethwaite?

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Though quite why he had it in for Henry Burgum the pewterer was a mystery—oh, Burgum was a dyed-in-the-wool villain, but what precisely had he done to Mr. James Thistlethwaite?

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

You will find as the touchmark of this pewterer the initials E.S. below a full-rigged ship.

The Blue Cat of Castle Town 1949

Do you know what the master pewterer in Connecticut said of such metal, which he hated, blue kitten?

The Blue Cat of Castle Town 1949

By this time the pewterer had seized two bright teapots from the counter.

The Blue Cat of Castle Town 1949

When next the kitten opened an eye the pewterer was pouring the melted mass into two molds.

The Blue Cat of Castle Town 1949

Chatterton's earliest idea seems to have been how to deceive; and, were it possible to laugh at youthful fraud, there would be something irresistibly ludicrous in the lad bewildering the old pewterer, Burgum.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

The handle of a spoon bearing the hallmark of this earliest American pewterer, of whom there is a record, is extant and may be seen at the museum at Jamestown.

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

Elizabeth Cooper, wife of a pewterer, of St. Andrews, Norwich, had recanted; but, tortured for what she had done by the worm which dieth not, she shortly after voluntarily entered her parish church during the time of the popish service, and standing up, audibly proclaimed that she revoked her former recantation, and cautioned the people to avoid her unworthy example.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

She said she was niece to a pewterer of considerable circumstances, not far from Tower Hill, who had promised, and was able to give her five hundred pounds; but the fear of disobliging him by marriage, hindered her from thinking of becoming a wife without his approbation of her spouse.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward