gentle craft
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gentle craft
First recorded in 1590–1600
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Earthworms are a good bait for trout, but the highflyers of the gentle craft consider it infra dig to dig them.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 by Various
Aye more; it seeks to ingratiate itself, sometimes by force and sometimes by gentle craft and stratagem, into the good graces of that civilization which it has so mortally offended.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various
Her gentle craft subdued his impetuous mood—if craft it might be called—for more wisely cunning than all craft is the prompting of true affection, where reason responds like instinct to the wants of the heart.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
The exercise of the gentle craft of shoemaking was for a long time carried on in monastic institutions, and increased the revenues of the clergy.
From The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner
All that afternoon I persevered in fishing, brought 418 home my basket in triumph, and sometime that night, “in the wee sma’ hours ayont the twal,” I finally forswore the gentle craft of fishing.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
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