soap boiler
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His father was a soap boiler and tallow chandler, and he was the fifteenth in a family of seventeen children.
From Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Harry A. Lewis
Crown 8vo, cloth 7/6 "The work will prove very useful, not merely to the technological student, but to the soap boiler who wishes to understand the theory of his art."
From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Richard Bitmead
The women eliminate the baker, the soap boiler, and a lot of other parasites.
From In the Midst of Alarms by Robert Barr
His father was a tallow chandler and soap boiler, a trade which Benjamin detested.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
The dinner and its guests and its setting were calculated to impress the son of the Boston soap boiler who represented the important colonies in America.
From In the Days of Poor Richard by Irving Bacheller
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