The workmen closed off the street for repairs.
There were never more highly skilled workmen than those who lived in ancient China.
His workmen, in particular, adored him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity.
Mr. Smart had no time for any idle workmen. All his men were well paid and he expected them to work hard.
The workmen studied the shapes of the bases, the quality of the lacquer, and the use of different colors, and more often than not used brushes to draw varied decorative patterns on the polished bases.
"Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners the rest of the people who were still in the town, and those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the workmen."
The Thai workmen were hopelessly outnumbered.
The workmen broke up the pavement to lay gaspipes.
It has ever since been a pleasure to me to see good workmen handle their tools.
Pretending to speak seriously, one of the workmen asked if he might make a telephone call before being taken to the station.
When the workmen passed in the morning, they beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and doubled up over his basket.
The workmen fixed the water system.
The workmen were slow in making a start.
The two workmen made identical movements, and Harry mirrored them without conscious thought: All three of them drew their wands.
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark'd seated in a corner.
THE next morning we fell early to work, for the transportation of this great mass of gold near a mile by land to the beach, and thence three miles by boat to the Hispaniola, was a considerable task for so small a number of workmen.
Plumbers, carpenters, and other workmen finished the new house quickly.
Shah Jehan wanted his wife's tomb to be perfect. He did not care about time or money He brought together workmen from all Asia.
Suddenly another idea took possession of his mind, so used to misfortune, that it was scarcely capable of hope--the idea that the noise was made by workmen the governor had ordered to repair the neighboring dungeon.
When he received a very rude reply from one of the workmen, he threatened to remove them by force. The workmen told him to do as he pleased.
As I enter the grounds and ascend the main stone steps, the echo of stones being chipped and cut by a small army of workmen slowly gives way to wind and chiming bells.
The workmen are laying the foundations of the new hospital.
he was called, in town, Monsieur Madeleine,his workmen and the children continued to call him Father Madeleine, and that was what was most adapted to make him smile.
When the workmen found it was impossible for me to break loose, they cut all the strings that bound me.
The workmen struggled fiercely and one of them lost his temper.
The Derbyshire rain came down and the Queen waited until the Earl brought workmen to dig up the squares of black and white marble.
Bad workmen often blame their tools.
the workmen broke through the gas line.
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