The imperial and Wala-shahi troops comprised many low-caste men and mere artisans held commands.

That anyone should find the work of a commoner, a mere artisan, of greater concern than their most ancient rituals...!

Such craftsmen were considered more than mere artisans, and their products, especially set in seal rings, were highly esteemed.

To German professional scientists -proud of their new and flourishing technical institutes - Berliner was just a self-taught emigrant, a mere artisan and not a proper Herr Doktor.

Conceptualism is a late development in a centuries-old debate about whether artists should be seen as mere artisans or as intellectuals on a par with poets, philosophers and scientists.

He was the first of the couturiers, dressmakers considered artists rather than mere artisans.

Dürer, considered one of the greatest of printmakers, states that painters are not mere artisans but thinkers as well.

Why else should he seek to make a bosom friend and confidant of a nobody-a mere foreign artisan- like me?

Especially not-so Kasimir gathered- by a mere artisan who earned his living by carving stone.

But in mid-June, the highest court in France ruled that making perfume is not an artistic creation, but the work of a mere artisan.