In the academic high schools the courses in joinery and cabinet-making bring the pupils to greater proficiency, but do not greatly extend the course in width.
"What the Schools Teach and Might Teach"
John Franklin Bobbitt
At the end of it the king dismissed them, and the Chatham Government was formed-that strange combination which has been made famous by Burke's description of it as a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed, such a piece of diversified mosaic, such a tessellated pavement without cement, that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch and unsure to stand upon.
"Burke"
John Morley
"They don't pay for joinery here," Petra replied.
"Look Back on Happiness"
Knut Hamsun