Fleshers

Others occasionally leave virtual realities to inhabit robots as missionaries to try to persuade the fleshers not to let themselves die of old age. ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)

Clang, clang, came up through the grating, and then an axe hurtled through the air and whacked against the rocks beyond, to remind me of the fleshers at the carcasses up the cavern. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

It would seem the exterior Selenites I saw were, indeed, mostly engaged in kindred occupations — mooncalf herds, butchers, fleshers, and the like. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

New sig tag: "Why haven't you indolent fleshers converted the universe into chocolate?" ❋ Unknown (2003)

The answer was "To which I can only reply: why haven't you indolent fleshers converted the entire galaxy into chocolate?". ❋ Unknown (2003)

The Mound Builders must have had all the varieties of stone implements common to people in their stage of culture, such as axes, fleshers, and chisels. ❋ Emory Adams Allen (N/A)

"Fiddlers 'dogs and fleshers' flees come to feasts unbidden," said ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

The Burgundian partisans in the city, among whom was the powerful corporation of the butchers and fleshers, now rose, and on ❋ Thomas Okey (1893)

The shoulder-blades, lashed to a wooden handle, formed axes, hoes, and fleshers. ❋ George Bird Grinnell (1893)

Just an announcement to say that this coming Tuesday, the ol 'fleshers will start drum pre-production and we're expected to officially start recording Saturday, Dec. 5th. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This then is to record, that in the days when the guilds were in revolt against the city council, the cutlers and the fleshers alone remained true to the noble families, and whereas they refused to take any guerdon for their faithfulness, which must have been paid them at the cost of the rest, they craved no more than the right of a making a goodly show in a dance and procession at the Carnival; and they were by the same token privileged at that time to wear apparel of velvet and silk, like gentle folks of noble and knightly degree. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

Heroes’ Highway where our fleshers leave their bonings and every bob and joan to fill the bumper fair. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"This last view was adopted by the Roman Breviary and prevailed; hence he was chosen as the patron Saint of fleshers, who skin beasts, of leather-dressers and skinners, shoemakers and binders, who use leather, and even of tailors, for the early painters represent him with half his body flayed and carrying his skin over his arm like a coat. ❋ Unknown (1877)

I'll sell it a hantle cheaper than thir warldly-minded fleshers. " ❋ Charles Reade (1849)