glass-maker
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For he was an experienced glass-maker and was perfectly sure that the phial was not made from Beroviero's ordinary glass.
From Marietta A Maid of Venice by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
Messrs. Peyton & Barlow, metal-bedstead makers, Mr. Bacchus, glass-maker, Mr. Middlemore, currier, and Messrs. Chance, glassmakers, have also established schools for the parties in their employ.
From Rides on Railways by Sidney, Samuel
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.
They brought one Dagney, an Italian glass-maker, from Bristol, to erect a new furnace for them, provided with sundry pots of glass-house clay; but no success attended their efforts.
From Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Smiles, Samuel
His principal object in visiting the place was to call upon a stained glass-maker respecting a window for the new church at Bridgenorth.
From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Smiles, Samuel
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