In pre-modern China, brick-making was the job of a lowly and unskilled artisan, but a kiln master was respected as a step above the former.

A Muslim community was started in June 1940 when two Yemenis purchased an artisan cottage on Mary Street.

Cheddar cheese was sometimes ( and still can be found ) packaged in black wax, but was more commonly packaged in larded cloth, which was impermeable to contaminants, but still allowed the cheese to " breathe ", although this practice is now limited to artisan cheese makers.

In Greek mythology, Daedalus ( Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos () meaning " cunning worker ", and Etruscan Taitale ) was a skillful craftsman and artisan.

The word " demiurge " is an English word from a Latinized form of the Greek, dēmiourgos, literally " public worker ", and which was originally a common noun meaning " craftsman " or " artisan ", but gradually it came to mean " producer " and eventually " creator ".

Rousseau's father, Isaac Rousseau, was a watchmaker who, notwithstanding his artisan status, was well educated and a lover of music.

After the second half of the 18th century, this luxurious artisan product was no longer made, its place taken in part by chintz hangings and printed wallpapers.

* In its earliest form, manufacturing was usually carried out by a single skilled artisan with assistants.

The exams were open to all male subjects whose fathers were not of the artisan or merchant classes, although having wealth or noble status was not a prerequisite in receiving a recommendation.

Further more among the Nahuan peoples the word " Tolteca " was synonymous with artist, artisan or wise man, and " toltecayotl " " Toltecness " meant art, culture and civilization and urbanism — and was seen as the opposite of " Chichimecayotl " " Chichimecness ", which symbolized the savage, nomadic state of peoples who had not yet become urbanized.

Proudhon was selected out of several candidates, primarily due to the fact that his income was much lower than the others, and the judges were extremely impressed by his writing, and the level of education he had given himself while working as an artisan.

The Madagascar-U. S. Business Council was formed as a collaboration between the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) and Malagasian artisan producers in Madagascar in 2002.

By the standards of his time a gentleman like Wren would not generally join an artisan body ; however the workmen of St Paul's cathedral would naturally have sought the patronage or " interest " of their employer, and within Wren's lifetime there was a predominantly gentlemen's Lodge at the Rummer and Grapes, a mile upriver at Westminster ( where Wren had been to School ).

A skillful artisan and hard worker, Prosper Robert's main ambition was to provide for his family, but he also wanted his children to climb the social ladder.

E. P. Thompson notes that for British workers at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, the " gap in status between a ' servant ,' a hired wage-laborer subject to the orders and discipline of the master, and an artisan, who might ' come and go ' as he pleased, was wide enough for men to shed blood rather than allow themselves to be pushed from one side to the other.

After the passing of the Reform Act 1832, which gave the vote to a section of the male middle classes, but not to the working class which was then, because of social and industrial conditions, emerging from artisan and labouring classes many Radicals made speeches asserting the betrayal of the working class and the sacrificing of their interests by the misconduct of the government, in conjunction with this model.

Here, he writes, “ Executed by an unknown hand, undoubtedly that of an artisan rather than an artist … our eagle looked down upon the comings and going of the courtyard, the tears and smiles of its citizens and the successes and failures of the poliical system which it was designed to represent ”.

Nothing survives of the original buildings, La Oriole and the smaller St Martin's Hall in the south-east ; both were demolished before the quadrangle was built in the artisan mannerist style during the 17th century.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

against this bent man in the chair he was powerless.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

Carl Dill was neither a rancher nor a valley man.

He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

He was an honest man doing a hard job, and the implication that he was anything else was unbearable.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.

Macklin was the third man to come out, and he came unhurriedly.

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.

He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

For that legend was growing explosively, Rumor was insisting he received a price of $600 a man.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

`` You know who the other man was ''??

Present at the scene -- in addition to the dead man, who was indeed Louis Thor -- had been Thor's partner Bill Blake, and Antony Rose, an advertising agency executive who handled the zing account.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.