From the basketmaker-cooper's porch, a scar-faced woman glared as the column neared. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
Udek: Aggie to Uli and Dekkan, partner to Licoro; weaver and basketmaker, as well as accounts manager for sugar mill. From Wordnik.com. [PYA CAST OF CHARACTERS] Reference
Just by the hay scales I met Jim Burt, the lame basketmaker, shuffling along as usual with his baskets slung on his back. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
In this little cottage lived an old basketmaker named Janiculo, with his only daughter Griselda, the child of his old age. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Portion] Reference
Chinese basketmaker, who dwelt almost next door, spoke neither English nor Hindustani, but showed an easy comprehension of her promise of backsheesh when he should return with an answer. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
The son of the Chinese basketmaker, who dwelt almost next door, spoke neither English nor Hindustani, but showed an easy comprehension of her promise of backsheesh when he should return with an answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
The old basketmaker looked at the photograph carefully. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys in Alaska or Lost in the Fields of Ice] Reference
I lodged with an old basketmaker; he had a capital trade. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
On this the agreement was concluded, the basketmaker installed. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
In Cowfold at that time dwelt a basketmaker named Didymus Farrow. From Wordnik.com. [Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers] Reference
At the forks stood an old stone house, wherein lived an old basketmaker named Rater. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys in Alaska or Lost in the Fields of Ice] Reference
The clergyman smiled, and spoke at once of the lessons he had received from the basketmaker. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
Inc., left the basketmaker during the past week, Longaberger spokesman Tom Matthews confirmed. From Wordnik.com. [zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News] Reference
"Up the Hoopville road," and the old basketmaker pointed to the side road which ran past his home. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys in Alaska or Lost in the Fields of Ice] Reference
Saw no one but the surgeon, the basketmaker, and his wife; all so old they must be long since gathered to their fathers. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
She was dreading, at the time, the impending layoff of a man she had known since high school, a basketmaker who recently had been divorced. From Wordnik.com. [zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News] Reference
Numa Pimpilius did not more conceal from notice the lessons he received from Egeria than did George Morley those which he received from the basketmaker. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
Longaberger hired a new president in October, when Robin Crossman took over the duties of managing day-to-day operations of the direct-selling basketmaker. From Wordnik.com. [zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News] Reference
The Newark-based basketmaker will place the employees on furlough beginning Friday, but plans to call them back July 12, company spokesman Tom Matthews said. From Wordnik.com. [zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News] Reference
Natural, indeed, must be his wish for secrecy; pretty story it would be for Humberston, its future rector learning how to preach a sermon from an old basketmaker!. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
The years he had devoted to a craft which his ingenuity made lucrative, had just enabled the basketmaker, with his pupil's aid, to clear off that debt by instalments. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
At the end of the very first lesson George Morley saw that all the elocution masters to whose skill he had been consigned were blunderers in comparison with the basketmaker. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
The basketmaker stated Boyds Bear Country is an ideal location, as it is in the heart of a region where Longaberger has a high number of home consultants and thousands have attended the basket fests. From Wordnik.com. [zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News] Reference
He knew nought of the vagrant's past, his reason might admit that in a position of life so at variance with the gifts natural and acquired of the singular basketmaker, there was something mysterious and suspicious. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
Two of these rose almost perpendicularly, and supported the immense parasol of foliage, the branches of which were so crossed and intertwined and entangled, as if by the hand of a basketmaker, that they formed an impenetrable shade. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of the Castaways] Reference
The coiled sweetgrass basket is a historically significant example of African cultural heritage that was transported across the Atlantic by enslaved African people, according to M. Jeannette Gailliard Lee, a sweetgrass basketmaker and writer. From Wordnik.com. [TheState.com: The Buzz] Reference
Lady Montfort noted with no unnatural surprise the purity of idiom and of accent with which this singular basketmaker was unconsciously displaying his perfect knowledge of a language which the best-educated English gentleman of that generation, nay, even of this, rarely speaks with accuracy and elegance. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
Esteemed "Masters and Visionaries" on the tour include artist James Lavadour; master printer Frank Jansen; painter Lorie Baxter; book artist Roberta Lavadour; saddle maker Alan Dewey and rawhide braider Tim Dewey; contemporary glass artist and basketmaker Joe Fedderson; basketmaker Joey Lavadour; and master weaver Terry Widel. From Wordnik.com. Reference
An idea prevailed that the basketmaker had spent much of his life in foreign countries, favoured partly by a sobriety of habits which is not altogether national, partly by something in his appearance, which, without being above his lowly calling, did not seem quite in keeping with it, -- outlandish in short, -- but principally by the fact that he had received since his arrival two letters with a foreign postmark. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
Shower, "consisting of a clothes basket (woven by an old basketmaker from the willows growing not far distant), filled to overflowing with everything imaginable that could possibly be useful to a young housekeeper, from the half dozen neatly-hemmed linen, blue ribbon tied, dish clothes, to really handsome embroidered articles from the girls to whom she had given instructions in embroidery during the past summer. From Wordnik.com. [Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"] Reference
Montfort quitted the great house the very day after George had first encountered the basketmaker, and writing word that she should not return to it for some weeks, George was at liberty to avail himself of her lord's general invitation to make use of Montfort Court as his lodgings when in the neighbourhood; which the proprieties of the world would not have allowed him to do while Lady Montfort was there without either host or female guests. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
She actually smiled back at the basketmaker. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Chaos]
"I first became acquainted with them," said the jockey, "when I lived with old Fulcher the basketmaker, who took me up when I was adrift upon the world; I do not mean the present Fulcher, who is likewise called old. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
Yes, the basketmaker. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Edith Mitchell Dabbs, October 4, 1975. Interview G-0022. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Yes, who was the basketmaker. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Edith Mitchell Dabbs, October 4, 1975. Interview G-0022. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
"A basketmaker, sir; I hope for your custom.". From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
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