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One would suppose, from examining their course of study, that all men were to be either doctors or surgeons, apothecaries or druggists, mechanics, shipwrights, or civil-engineers.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various

The first men we meet are the civil-engineers.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

She is the daughter of the late General Chetwood, one of the greatest civil-engineers of our time.

From Parrot & Co. by MacGrath, Harold