sleepless

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Such persons were also called steeplejacks, and they were paid liberally for their exploits, as they deserved to be.

From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

In the summer of 1921 the steeplejacks employed to test the lightning conductor found that the iron cramps had rusted to such an extent as to split the stonework.

From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Holmes, Edric

It appears that only prose-men are the culpable ones when they hear the harping of invisible harps from Ibsen steeplejacks, or recognise the colour of Zarathustra's thoughts.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James

It was not the right and dignified way for a royal accident to happen: falling down-stairs suggested the same failing as that to which steeplejacks were prone.

From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence

And he got a couple of these professional steeplejacks to examine it.

From The Talleyrand Maxim by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)