tradesmen

Their home, built by Randall of straw bale construction with the help of a few friends and local tradesmen, is a model of beauty, light and simplicity.

Zirahuen, Michoacan: Mexico's Walden Pond 2009

Their home, built by Randall of straw bale construction with the help of a few friends and local tradesmen, is a model of beauty, light and simplicity.

Zirahuen, Michoacan: Mexico's Walden Pond 2009

This I call inland trade, and these circulators of goods, and retailers of them to the last consumer, are those whom we are to understand by the word tradesmen, in all the parts of this work; for (as I observed in the beginning) the ploughmen and farmers who labour at home, and the merchant who imports our merchandise from abroad, are not at all meant or included, and whatever I have been saying, except where they have been mentioned in particular, and at length.

The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Daniel Defoe 1696

I didn’t know what could be done about it, and tackling tradesmen is something I hate to do, but I went off in search of someone to talk to.

It Gets Worse « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

And why should I worry whether the tradesmen are all happy and enjoying the work?

It Gets Worse « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Then I called the tradesmen and paid them what I owed and spent freely, saying in myself, "By the time he returns,

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

On such terms tradesmen who, before the war, had laid in large and semi-secret stores now reaped a magnificent harvest.

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

Half an hour later the sound of the town sergeant's bell at the end of the street called tradesmen from their benches and housewives from their kitchens to hear the following proclamation, to which Tommy had done honour by donning his official robe (of blue, gold-laced) with a scarlet pelisse and a cocked hat.

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

It is said of England, by way of distinction, and we all value ourselves upon it, that it is a trading country; and King Charles II., who was perhaps that prince of all the kings that ever reigned in England, that best understood the country and the people that he governed, used to say, 'That the tradesmen were the only gentry in England.'

The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Daniel Defoe 1696

I can tell you that we've got our, I will call tradesmen, our part time painter product in more outlets this year than we had last year.

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