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How To Use artificer In A Sentence

• From the spacious and convenient berthage of the floating light, the exchange to the artificers was, in this respect, much for the better. Records of a Family of Engineers
• Upon paying a fine to the king, the charter feems ge - nerally to have been readily granted; and when any particular clafs of artificers or traders thought proper to a6l as a corporation without a charter, fuch adulterine guilds, as they were called, were not always disfranchifed upon that account, but obliged to fine annually to the king for permiffion to exercife their ufurped pri - vileges *. The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings
• An act of 1646 authorized the constables of every town to require artificers and handicraftsmen "to work by the day for their neighbours in mowing, reaping of corn and inning thereof."
• In every civilization, the skilled artificer has an honored place beside the scribe and the shaman.
• This sort of people have a certain pre-eminence, and more estimation than labourers and the common sort of artificers, and these commonly live wealthily, keep good houses, and travel to get riches. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
• Man is the artificer of his own happiness. 
• When we found it was public, we were more concerned to prevent their suspecting that we had any design to conceal it, and openly telling our thoughts of it, we called our artificer, who agreed presently that it was gold; so I proposed that we should all go with the prince to the place where he found it, and if any quantity was to be had, we would lie here some time and see what we could make of it. The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
• A similar story is told in chapter 4, which contrasts Smith's criticism of apprenticeship with the arguments advanced in the debates leading to the 1814 repeal of the apprenticeship clauses of the Elizabethan statute of artificers.
• Letters facioned to ioyne together in sillables like ours, but Ziphres, and shapes of men and of beastes, of heades, and of armes, and artificers tooles, which signified in sondrie wise echone accordyng to his propertie. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.
• On the Representation of John Lucas Commissary of pension - ers, in behalf of Stephen Rogers, a matross and artificer in Capt. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court