gentle craft
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gentle craft
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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So, good luck to the gentle craft, and its professors, may the Fates send us much into their company!
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas
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
Angling is such a popular recreation that professors of the gentle craft are to be found amongst all classes and conditions of the Genus homo.
From The Teesdale Angler by Lakeland, R.
I say “progresses,” but it is impossible to speak with any certainty of courting, for the essence of that gentle craft is hope, rooted in labor and trained by love.
From A Cathedral Courtship by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
All that afternoon I persevered in fishing, brought 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 Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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