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- noun Plural form of
tent-maker .
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Examples
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"Would it mean naught to thee if in thine own province thy hewers of stone and builders of ships, thy tent-makers and herdsmen and corn growers should secretly unite and rise against thee?"
The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock
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But sometimes, as in the case of those caterpillars which live in companies, it is used to form a sheet or tent within which the tent-makers dwell.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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Aquila and Priscilla were tent-makers, and lived at
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Yes, psychic power in its varied manifestations is found in humble quarters, but surely that has been its main characteristic from the beginning -- fishermen, carpenters, tent-makers, camel drivers, these were the prophets of old.
The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926
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Yes, psychic power in its varied manifestations is found in humble quarters, but surely that has been its main characteristic from the beginning -- fishermen, carpenters, tent-makers, camel drivers, these were the prophets of old.
The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926
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There were silversmiths at work, tent-makers, and the makers of camel harness.
Old Junk 1915
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Therefore in the smithies and among the groups of tent-makers a moment's negligence, a careless attention to the work, might lead to a brief trial on the morrow and the inevitable guillotine.
I Will Repay Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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Why these are they whose disciples we are; the fishermen, the publicans, the tent-makers, of Him who was brought up in the house of a carpenter; and who deigned to have the carpenter's betrothed wife for a mother; and who was laid, after His swaddling clothes, in a manger; and who had not where to lay His head; -- of Him whose journeys were so long that His very journeying was enough to tire
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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And are the twelve fishermen and tent-makers and publicans wiser than all these?
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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Then one of the two men said, 'Let us join partnership together, and set up here as tent-makers for a time.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868
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