gasfitters

I have accordingly mixed white-lead with putty with better results, in the proportion of two parts putty; one ditto white-lead (thick, such as gasfitters use); one-eighth ditto gold size -- or I have used red-lead, mixed with common putty and boiled oil; and, again, simply plaster of

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"I met him first at the gasfitters 'ball," she said.

Sole Music 2010

"I met him first at the gasfitters 'ball," she said.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

"I met him first at the gasfitters 'ball," she said.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

The desire to spit seizing him shortly, he proceeds to gratify it by a trick long practised by gasfitters, musicians, caterer's helpers, piano movers and other such alien invaders of the domestic hearth.

A Book of Burlesques 1918

The city editor had no hallucinations regarding such members of his staff as he saw at leisure, but thought again, as he had often thought before, that the world had lost some good plumbers and gasfitters when they turned to newspaper work.

The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

"I met him first at the gasfitters 'ball," she said.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

"I met him first at the gasfitters 'ball," she said.

A Case of Identity 1891

"I met him first at the gasfitters 'ball," she said.

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

After a stint as a military training facility during the war and then as the Ontario College of Art afterward, the building became the Provincial Institute of Trades in the early 1950s, when the two terracotta buildings were built to train plumbers, gasfitters, welders and electricians.

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