As I have mentioned before, occasionally a plate can be made as good as the copy without hand-work. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
He who makes the winds his messengers and the flames his servants, can do without thy hand-work, O little man. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
Diamond drills were used at the lower heading requiring power; the other fifteen headings were driven by hand-work. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884] Reference
It was the iconoclastic effect of postmodernism coupled with the transition from hand-work to digital work in graphic design. From Wordnik.com. [That orange with a straw stuck in it.] Reference
There is also in hand-work a wide scope for the inventive faculty and the exercise of good taste (both in form and color) and skillful workmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
The mere energy lost through slow hand-work in those times, if transformed into electrical power, would probably have run all the mills and factories in. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Life in Colonial Days] Reference
Yet all is at my hand-work, both by down and by dale. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference
By Sloyd, we understand a system of educational hand-work. From Wordnik.com. [A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science] Reference
An earlier volume covered the play and hand-work of little children. From Wordnik.com. [Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk] Reference
But he says she'll never be able to read much or do any fine hand-work again. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Avonlea] Reference
Some students will succeed better in the head-work, and others in the hand-work. From Wordnik.com. [Hampton and its Students. By Two of its Teachers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner.] Reference
But there never was, and never could have been, any art at all without hand-work. From Wordnik.com. [Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome] Reference
"How do they have enough patience to do it?" he wonders about the hand-work of the. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
And it is found that by doing hand-work also the pupils do better head-work as well. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools] Reference
In a general way hand-work can more nearly compete with heavy machines than light ones. From Wordnik.com. [Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration] Reference
There are other people working in tapestry at the juncture where computers and hand-work meet. From Wordnik.com. [theartblog] Reference
You will therefore understand that hand-work in the household should not be indifferent to them. From Wordnik.com. [World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France] Reference
He became so good at his hand-work that in winter, at the mill, he was actually clumsy at his machine!. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
The annals of the New York factory workers presented below describe monotony and speeding in hand-work. From Wordnik.com. [Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls] Reference
The blade-makers do their own forging and hammering, and it is from first to last apparently all hand-work. From Wordnik.com. [Seven English Cities] Reference
There, before you, at one level, are the Trade School Shops -- a shop in hand-work and a shop in millinery. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of Tomorrow] Reference
The machine can only increase the power and scale of the crafts that have already been perfected by hand-work. From Wordnik.com. [Wood-Block Printing A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice] Reference
Charlotte brought out some sheets of wall-paper, as Jeff thought, but he saw at once that they were hand-work. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Violin] Reference
They are here emphatically "turned loose," and are shifting for themselves, -- doing their own head-work and hand-work. From Wordnik.com. [Mary S. Peake The Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe] Reference
The best achievements of hand-work will always be the standards for reference; and on their study must machine craft be based. From Wordnik.com. [Wood-Block Printing A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice] Reference
Perhaps Joanie may have told you that just at my last gasp of hand-work, I had to write quite an unexpected number of letters. From Wordnik.com. [Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston] Reference
Mistaking hand-work for brain-work, they audaciously accepted commissions that would have taxed the powers of the master himself. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference
Clothes manufactured by hand-work are more lasting, comfortable, and handsome, and are more natural and national than factory goods. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference
Art grew out of hand-work, but it grew in it, too, as a plant in the soil; when there is no more hand-work, there will be no more art. From Wordnik.com. [Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome] Reference
"If you do hand-work you'll have to use your mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls] Reference
(paintings / hand-work) owned or created by women members. From Wordnik.com. [CapeCodToday Blog Chowder] Reference
"substitute" for it, a machine product made originally to sell at a large profit for the price of hand-work. From Wordnik.com. [The Booklover and His Books] Reference
Don't you just love having hand-work?. From Wordnik.com. [Tea Towels] Reference
The hand-work of Weland. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
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