Citations:shapesmith

English citations of shapesmith and shape-smith

1715, Samuel Garth, Claremont:
Not yet broad eye-brows were redue'd by paste; / No shape-smith set up shop, and drove a trade / To mend the work wise Providence had made [...].

a 1719, Samuel Garth, Claremont‎^[1], The works of Sir Samuel Garth edition, published 1769, page 92:
Not yet lead-comb was on the toilet plac'd; Not yet broad eye-brows were reduc'd by paste: / No shape-smith set up shop, and drove a trade / To mend the work wise providence had made

1809, Elizabeth Thomas, Monte Video: or, The officer's wife and her sister‎^[2], volume 1, page 215:
... there is no man less attentive to them than I am; I have never put this delectable person of mine under a shape-smith
1900, George C W Warr, The Oresteia of Aeschylus‎^[3], page 12:
Because love is no more, that was the shape-smith of her comely statues, their amorous eyes are void and loathly.
1916, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur, The Prose Edda: Or, Younger Edda‎^[4], translation of original by Snorri Sturluson, page 156:
He answered thus: 'Skalds do call me Vidurr's Shape-Smith, Gautr's Gift-Finder, Bard not faulty, Yggr's Ale-Bearer, Song's Arrayer, Skilled Smith of Verse: What is the Skald but this?'