Restorers

The putting forth of the finger and speaking vanity are among the things which Isaiah declares they must put away who desire to be called the restorers of the breach, the repairers of paths to dwell in. ❋ Unknown (1911)

In this direction a similar by-road also runs under the long line of the Purbeck Hills, here so called, but on the south side of the range through Church Knowle which has an old cruciform church pulled about by "restorers" as far back as the early eighteenth century and several times since. ❋ Edric Holmes (N/A)

Sundays, to be scratched and whitewashed out of recognition in later years by destroyers and "restorers" alike. ❋ Eric Parker (1912)

West Clandon church stands in the corner of the park, and is chiefly remarkable for a very curious old sundial, belonging perhaps to the days of Henry II, and built upside down by "restorers" into a buttress of the south wall. ❋ Eric Parker (1912)

Richly carved woodwork in screens, rood-lofts, pulpits, and pews, sculptured sedilia and a noble reredos, and much exuberance of decorative imagery and panel-work, adorned our churches at this time, much of which was obliterated or destroyed by spoliators of the Reformation period, the iconoclastic Puritans of the seventeenth century, or the "restorers" of the nineteenth. ❋ Unknown (1892)

We will suppose that it has not suffered overmuch at the hands of the "restorers" of the nineteenth, or the Puritans of the seventeenth, or the spoliators of an earlier century, so that we may observe all those details which characterise an ancient church. ❋ Unknown (1892)

Even when the church was spared the "restorers" were guilty of strange enormities in the embellishment and decoration of the sacred building. ❋ Unknown (1892)

It need hardly be said that this tower has been constantly threatened, by "restorers" on the one hand, as well as by open destroyers on the other. ❋ Walter Besant (1868)

It had already suffered, like so many other churches all over France and England, from the ingenious 'restorers' of the eighteenth century, who have left their sign-manual on the upper part of the edifice and on the mass of a huge organ loft which crushes and disfigures the main entrance. ❋ William Henry Hurlbert (1861)

The 19th century "restorers" painted the parts of the Giottos that had been damaged, adding their own brushstrokes to highlight what was no longer visible from the ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"restorers" has done much to deprive our churches of their ancient furniture. ❋ Unknown (1892)

"restorers", the paintings were left faint and anaemic, like a patient who had never fully healed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Due diligence would suggest you subtract the markup that goes to pay the rent on Bauman's sumptuous shops not only in Manhattan, but also its Philadelphia headquarters and outpost in Las Vegas, and its team of catalogers and restorers, and its marketing department. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

His life so far has been a rich tapestry of diversity, with just a few of his experiences including being a welder, running multiple car dealerships, managing a multimedia software project, being a hypnotherapist, a magistrate, a nightclub owner, a mayor, a pub landlord, and currently running an antiques business in conjunction with my mum who has embarked on her own incredible journey to become one of the top master restorers in England. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is not a power play, Lyons stresses, but the activation of a network of "restorers who will work with anyone to see goodness go forward in the world and evil pressed back." ❋ Tom Krattenmaker (2011)

As Jennifer Delton noted in her essay "Conserving Liberalism," liberal thinkers are "no longer staking their claims on the future," but have instead become "conservers and restorers, fighting to preserve what remains of the New Deal, struggling to restore former glories." ❋ James Block (2011)

I don't suppose any restorers actually make sweeping, gestural brushstrokes as there's clearly an affinity here for 'tight' work, but the question I'm still left with is whether these artists make this painstaking work because they are restorers or the other way around. ❋ Paul Klein (2011)