glass-maker
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There is a strange tale of how, during the reign of Tiberius, a glass-maker discovered how to make a kind of glass which would not break.
From The Story of Glass by Gray, C.P.
You are a glass-maker yourself, like the rest of us.
From Marietta A Maid of Venice by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
Get the glass-maker to make a club, which shall be pierced at its extremity like an iron club.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
This was equally the case with two other trades;—those of glass-maker and druggist, which brought no contamination upon nobility in Venice.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Smiles, Samuel
This glass-maker made a cup for the Emperor and tried a long time to get an audience at which to present his new invention.
From The Story of Glass by Gray, C.P.
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