chimney sweep
Example Sentences
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Clintons was founded in 1968 by Don Lewin, the son of an East End chimneysweep.
From BBC • Aug. 6, 2023
Travers, followed a magical flying British nanny as she improved the lives of the unhappy Banks family with the aid of chirpy Cockney chimneysweep Bert, played by Dick Van Dyke.
From Reuters • May 31, 2016
It was simply a chimneysweep who had mistaken his chimney.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
Did you see that bloody chimneysweep near shove my eye out with his brush?
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
The chimneysweep laughed so that he let his brush fall on the floor.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Maupassant, Guy de