In the café entrance a workman is setting up a second-hand radio on a wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naguib Mahfouz - Prose] Reference

A period had been reached, and he was rounding it off in workman-like fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 40] Reference

The doctrine that the workman is entitled to a living wage has become obsolete.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pernicious Propaganda] Reference

So all the world, like the British workman, is 'twixt the devil and the deep sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scab] Reference

In the doorway of another house, a workman is polishing an elaborately carved chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys] Reference

Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic.    From Wordnik.com.  [May I Be Excused? My Brain Is Full.] Reference

But if the workman is not able to pay for it, he will not have the speed and steam, that is all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses] Reference

A workman is employed, not because he is efficient in labour, but because he is efficient as an agitator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia: Political and General Conditions] Reference

The British taxpayer, of course, in the end pays, but the British workman is kept busy producing the goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [The British Election] Reference

British workman is compelled by his trade union to limit his attention to one, so that employment may be given to half a dozen men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scab] Reference

That is the lesson that the workman is apt to overlook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education and Commerce] Reference

The rest of the workman is the daily repairing of the machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquest of Bread] Reference

But a workman was the very agent not to be employed under the circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stillwater Tragedy] Reference

What then if a workman was a better and greater kind of man than a gentleman?.    From Wordnik.com.  [There & Back] Reference

It seemed a long time before it was opened by a man dressed like a Paris workman, that is in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of Her Honeymoon] Reference

He was at least a conscientious man, a good workman, which is more than can be said for the son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference

The workman is known by his work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference

The workman is worthy of his meat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

No workman is visible for the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend] Reference

The bill also substituted the word 'workman' with 'employee'.    From Wordnik.com.  [India eNews] Reference

The Ranka "workman" bikini is so shimapan, or cute striped panties.    From Wordnik.com.  [J-List side blog] Reference

Mrs. Hayes herself, as may be supposed, looks every inch a 'workman' in the saddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.] Reference

He has profiled at least 200 dirty jobs with a kind of workman's humor that makes the day pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [ABC News: ABCNews] Reference

I saw a belated workman staggering along the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Don't you see that a new invention is like a child to a workman?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

A workman stooped on her floor, laying down tile the color of blush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Losing Married Women] Reference

A CNN workman unsuccessfully attempted to reclaim the satellite dish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Schorr, veteran CBS and CNN reporter and NPR news analyst, dead at 93] Reference

The administration has negotiated a workman-like extension of the treaty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Cirincione: Senate September Showdown] Reference

As he repeated this proverb, the workman uttered his usual sardonic laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The mauls and wedges were of wood and were made by each workman for himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

I was overwhelmed, like a workman who had unconsciously produced a masterpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Bergenheim gave the workman a withering glance, and made a sign for him to continue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The workman cried out and stumbled backward, trying to stand upright so he could run.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unnatural History of Brown's Island] Reference

"Go and find out," said the workman, accompanying his reply with a flourish of the stick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

It is very hard to have a workman sit down near you and not to talk to him, so we talked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

Surrounded by the bright lights and trappings of authority, he was workman-like and confident.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Apart] Reference

Have you seen in the 'Edinburgh Review' an account of some poems by Elliott, a Sheffield workman?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

The greater part of these rhymers are 'cheap jewellers,' and they are jealous of a master workman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The master workman then turned to Reine, replying to her remarks in a respectful but familiar tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference