craft

By the craft of nature.

The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne […]

[…]and the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

[Canton] has a large export trade in hand-made crafts, ivory and furniture.

For your entente I shall a craft devise […] That ye shall haue your purpose euery dele.

[…] Þe seuen craftes all he can […]

A poem […] is the work of the poet; the end and fruit of his labour and study. Poesy is his skill or craft of making; the very fiction itself, the reason or form of the work.

[…] For since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, / Has the craft of the smith been held in repute by the people.

A prentis whilom dwelt in our citee, / And of a craft of vitaillers was he […]

“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.

And whereas the continual Interruption of the Courſe and Paſſage of the Fiſh up the Rivers, by the daily drawing of Seins and other Fiſh-Craft, tends to prevent their Increaſe,[…]