"The names of instruments and tools of artificers, and words of art," he says in the preface to his Homer, "though of use in the schools, are far from being fit to be spoken by a hero.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
In the royal dockyards, for example, although the apprentices are recruited by open competition, the artificers are appointed subject to a pass examination touching only their skill in their trade, while the foremen are usually selected by a limited competition which includes something more.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
But this is merely a conjecture, and it is not improbable but that the chest may have been brought from Sicily, which abounded with Arabic artificers, at the time when it was occupied by the Normans.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner