plumber

Jim was a plumber's apprentice whose weak chin and hedonistic temperament, coupled with a certain nervous stupidity, promised to take him nowhere in the race for bread and butter.

I'm painting the portrait of a retired plumber for two hundred francs."[5]

The bathroom which communicated with his apartment was the latest triumph of the plumber's art - a room with floor and walls of white tiles, the bath itself a little sunken and twice the ordinary size.

It had an apothecary, a blacksmith, a plumber, several shops of one sort and another, two churches, and many boarding-houses; but all its interests gathered about its seminary and its academy.

"I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, and my own Jack of all Trades," said Wemmick, in acknowledging my compliments.

"It is an ordinary plumber's smoke- rocket, fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting.

It was nearly as bad as the latter, they found in the end, for the plumber charged them seventy-five cents an hour, and seventy-five cents for another man who had stood and watched him, and included all the time the two had been going and coming, and also a charge for all sorts of material and extras.

how can it be finished," the plumber demanded scornfully, "before hot and cold are put in?" and he put in hot and cold.

He looked uncommonly like a master plumber come to present his bill.

I am a plumber with a rising business, Escott, by name.

"And I have been thinking," she added rather nervously, "surely we could squeeze Charlotte in here next week, and give her a nice holiday while plumbers at Tunbridge Wells finish.

In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys; they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.