Though the iron sheds and strong bough-shelters which comprised the homestead were very rough, there was a workmanlike air about the place which seemed to say that white men had taken possession of the wilderness and meant to stay there.
"In the Musgrave Ranges"
Jim Bushman
She came out from behind the screen, dressed in a very plain, workmanlike black gown, over which she was wearing a large butcher blue apron.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
With a hop and flutter the thrush mounts the stone anvil, and there destroys his victim in workmanlike style.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies