Afterward they lead them to the offices of the trades, such as shoemaking, cooking, metal-working, carpentry, painting, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The City of the Sun] Reference

Afterwards they lead them to the offices of the trades, such as shoemaking, cooking, metal-working, carpentry, painting, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideal Commonwealths] Reference

And an art requiring as much attention as shoemaking?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference

SOCRATES: Then by shoemaking we take care of our shoes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcibiades I] Reference

Lumber mills, shoemaking and the railroad were thriving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain's celebrated Missouri hometown is jumping again] Reference

And clothes shops and shoemaking shops and knife-making shops?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tai-Pan]

"Then go out of the shoemaking business, before you are ruined.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canticle for Leibowitz]

My pa's main work was shoemaking, but he worked in the field too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6] Reference

At this school, invalids learned shoemaking and tailoring skills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I] Reference

If nothing better presents itself, try shoemaking or digging ditches.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference

Or like shoemaking for the acquisition of shoes — that is what you mean?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference

And he suggests the U.S. get out of shoemaking, textiles, and even agriculture.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2004] Reference

But his passion was shoemaking, which he continued when he moved to New Hampshire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference

Also called a Clip-point knife, commonly used in bookbinding as well as shoemaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger in the Smoke]

Many of its functions - from shoemaking to education - were farmed out to specialists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Immigrants and the Fallacy of Labour Scarcity] Reference

Having learned the art of shoemaking, he devoted himself to the shoe and leather trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference

He had all the shoemaking machines in his garage and made Esquivel a couple of wingtips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joy Yoon: The Well-Honed Craft of George Esquivel (PHOTOS)] Reference

Unless you learn it, you know, you might just as well take to shoemaking — just the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Small House at Allington] Reference

She was the fifth daughter of an Irish officer who had taken up shoemaking in Rouen, France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Her arms and bosom leaning on a pillow « Jahsonic] Reference

I need not inform my reader that the worshipful shoemaking magistrate proved a false prophet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

Then poor Doctor Manette decides to fiddle with some shoemaking... just to steady his nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - So The Drama!] Reference

I know all the secrets of the shoemaking art, and I carry with me the best tools in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, the Shoe King's Son] Reference

He was a mechanic, -- built houses, made keys, and did all other blacksmith work and shoemaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference

Cottage industries such as weaving, shoemaking, and cabinetmaking also helped the colony thrive.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of American Women] Reference

He taught Isom blacksmithing, brickmaking and bricklaying, shoemaking, carpentry, and other things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference

SOCRATES: And do we by shoemaking take care of our feet, or by some other art which improves the feet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcibiades I] Reference

SOCRATES: Then by gymnastic we take care of our feet, and by shoemaking of that which belongs to our feet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcibiades I] Reference

This is how the shoemaking business, Top Footwear, make their forecast for indirect labour costs next year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 12] Reference

In 1810 he married, and commenced shoemaking in the village of St Boswells, where he has continued to reside.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

That winter -- "my last at shoemaking" -- he worked more diligently than ever before, and more good-naturedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference

In the prison shop, Garman uncovered evidence of button -, furniture -, and shoemaking, and a small machine shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Providence Prison] Reference

Some are tailors, and some make harness for carriage-horses, and some carve wood, and learn carpentering or shoemaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Book of London] Reference

The cobbler is intelligent in shoemaking, and is therefore good in that; he is not intelligent, and therefore not good, in weaving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcibiades I] Reference

By the little fireside a large hawk was perched, and the owner of the place had his apparatus for shoemaking in the middle of the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Byeways in Palestine] Reference

Immigrants provide the labor that has kept viable entire segments of certain labor-intensive industries, such as garment and shoemaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Final Report Of The Commission On Immigration Reform] Reference

Workshops train people in carpentry, tailoring, shoemaking and other skills so that people can return to their homes with a new vocation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning from the Courage of Ali-- Right Livelihood] Reference