His father was a notary; but, being in poor circumstances, he apprenticed his son, in his eleventh year, to a relative, who followed the conjoined business of a builder and house-carpenter. ❋ Various (N/A)
From house-carpenter to Chief Justice is a long way. ❋ Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson (N/A)
One is an engineer, and has been engaged in sawing lumber, a second, a good house-carpenter, a third a blacksmith, and the fourth a farm hand. ❋ William Still (N/A)
Two days after leaving his father's roof, he found employment with a house-carpenter, in Taunton, ❋ Maurice [Unknown Role] Joblin (N/A)
He is accustomed to be of use in this way to his neighbours, who reward him in the same manner with cattle and with venison, till at last he finds it his interest to dedicate himself entirely to this employment, and to become a sort of house-carpenter. ❋ Unknown (1909)
He was taught the trade of a house-carpenter and worked at it generally until his later days. ❋ James Meriles (1888)
For that undertaking, you will have to deal with a very intelligent class of skilled labour; for the Japanese house-carpenter may be ranked with the artist almost as much as with the artizan. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
Being, as he was then considered, the best house-carpenter in or near the town, he was not put to field-work, although the privilege of working out, and paying his owner monthly, which he once enjoyed, was now denied him. ❋ Unknown (1861)
Hayter, who 'had been house-carpenter to the Company for six years, at ❋ Unknown (1860)
According to the calculation of a house-carpenter, in a place where the average price of lumber is $4 a hundred, and carpenter work $3 a day, such a house can be built for $1600. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
Then there were eight axe-men, a house-carpenter, a mason, and a mill-wright. ❋ Unknown (1843)
"No, sir," rejoined mine ancient, "I am a Biscayan; bred a ship-builder, but at present a house-carpenter." ❋ Tyrone Power (1818)
The trees are of various kinds, such as are common to other parts of this country, and are fit for the shipwright, house-carpenter, cabinet-maker, and many other uses. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
A house-carpenter seems to exercise rather a nicer and a more ingenious trade than a mason. ❋ Adam Smith (1756)
To my office, and anon one tells me that Rundall, the house-carpenter of ❋ Samuel Pepys (1668)
To my office, and anon one tells me that Rundall, the house-carpenter of Deptford, hath sent me a fine blackbird, which I went to see. ❋ Pepys, Samuel (1663)
a ‘house-carpenter’ and his wife, and alters ‘the banks of Italy’ to ❋ Frank Sidgwick (N/A)
