Example Sentences

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Crystals form much better if the water is perfectly smooth, and to bring this about a very little oil is poured into the grainer.

From Diggers in the Earth by Tappan, Eva March

Later on he learned to be a painter and grainer, then a printer, a reporter, and finally an editorial writer.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; Ð employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Among other things he learned the trade of painter and grainer, also that of printer, all the time storing his mind with what scraps of education that his life of poverty and toil permitted.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper

Well, I'm a real painter: grainer, finisher, thirty-eight bob a week when I can get it.

From Major Barbara by Shaw, Bernard