A good, deft workman, they said, when he could be stopped from flying off after some angry cause or other.

He was, besides being a jovial companion, a good workman.

With winter coming she had needed a good workman.

You were a good, strong workman, but you had a real attitude problem.

A good workman, too, they said, when he chose, or when his elders could hold him to it.

What, said he, is the business of a good workman?

He was too good a workman for that.

John Eppinger, the blacksmith, has been in the village many years and is a good workman.

He was a good workman - no monkey business and value received.

He has the reputation of being a good workman, though they say he's a very peculiar man.