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Usage examples of artisan.

It was a gigantic amphitheatre carved into the side of the plateau upon which the upper city - the Imperial palace - rested, constructed by the skill of artisans, the sweat of builders, and the blood of slaves, vast enough to comfortably seat 50,000 people, more than the populations of Rillanon and Krondor combined.

In the Trecento, there was no clear concept of architecture as a profession, and in Florence, the men who designed buildings often came from the ranks of artisans: sculptors, painters, goldsmiths, and woodworkers.

However detestable that man was as an individual, he was one of the finest artisans of our little group, close in observation, meticulous in recording.

But Fielding took over and worked a kind of flattery contest between artisans and stars, leaving me free to wander through the moneyed crush.

The monies required are on deposit and all the artisans have seen the pouches sealed.

I was once an apprentice to Tellis the scrivener, when Pattera and her sister lived off the Square of the Artisans.

At once three of the artisans were hurried across the postern bridge and through the gate with instructions to hasten to the front entrance and let down the bridge and open the great gate for the king.

There he had worn his student artisan quartals with pride, and he never forgot that they set him apart from the others.

Tower Street and Foluran Hill was the mass of the population, with country folk from Seant and Aubinas and Seinster and the Blue Hills, plus artisans and other workers from every town and city in the region.

When couscous is formed by hand, the artisan places coarse semolina flour on a broad, round tray, adding small amounts of water and fine semolina flour as she slowly rubs the surface of the mixture with her palms in a repeated circular motion.

Closed, it was a striking but simple, unpretentious piece with a flat, unembellished facade crafted from the honeytoned woods favored by Biedermeier artisans.

In return, a Gypsy artisan carved a lovely and elaborate frame from bogwood for an oval mirror of exceptional clarity.

They have decided to test this by bringing calices here from other artisan colonies.

Gallicisms and technical terminology are no longer proclaimed to the peasants, while the artisan is no more entertained with grandiloquent descriptions of the last night of Socrates, or with Ciceronian laudations of the Schoolmen.

There were also artisans of many types: woodworkers, metalworkers, stoneworkers, clothworkers, and on.