"Engraver" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... father of Robert Stephenson, M.P., and engineer-in-chief of the North-Western Railway; of Dr Hutton, who was originally a hewer of coal in Old Long Benton Colliery; of Thomas Bewick, the celebrated wood-engraver; of Professor Hann, the mathematician, and of many others whose names are less known to fame, who have obtained respectable ...
— The Mines and its Wonders • W.H.G. Kingston
... tympani) is here found of the largest dimensions. I have once before alluded to this in writing of the bears, in whom this arrangement is deficient. I give here a section of the auditory apparatus. I do not know whether the engraver has effectually rendered my attempt at conveying an idea, based as it is on dissections by Professor Flower; but if he has failed I think the fault lies in the shakiness of my hand in attempting the fine shading after nearly breaking a saw and ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale
... best circles. It was doubtless due to this discovery that her visiting cards had been engraved to read "Mrs. H. Judson-Terwilliger," the hyphen presumably being a typographical error, for which the engraver ...
— The Water Ghost and Others • John Kendrick Bangs
... was a music engraver and publisher, and author also of several glees and anthems. He was born 1750, and ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
... can hardly compare with the strange belief and doings of Hogarth, the celebrated painter and engraver, particularly towards the close of his long life. A few months before he was seized with the malady which cut him off, he commenced his "End of all Things." A few of his intimate friends looked upon his picture as prophetic; ...
— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant
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