chimneysweep

• “Meanwhile, as Senator Clinton is completely dominating all of the significant microtrendic categories, such as historical village chimneysweep reenactors aged 22 years and younger with Hallervorden-Spatz Syndrome and previous year's adjusted gross income of $132,000 or above, any schoolchild can easily see that Senator Clinton's rapidly approaching election as the next President of the United States of America is a fait accompli.”

  Hillary Super-Delegates In Washington State Wavering

• “Oh, and her Brits had all the verisimilitude of Dick van Dyke's Cockney chimneysweep...”

  The New Space Opera, part 1

• “Did you see that bloody chimneysweep near shove my eye out with his brush? —”

  Ulysses

• “I hired them because I needed the chimney cleaned in February and the first four chimneysweep companies I called either had disconnected numbers or I got answering machines and the Mad Hatter was the first one that a human answered the telephone for.”

  Mad hatters in the house, aliens in the vents

• “In fact I fear sometimes that I have the ambition of a genius, the eye and ear of a genius, and the talent of a chimneysweep.”

  Alvin Journeyman

• “A chimneysweep diagnosed pigeons nesting in our defunct flues.”

  the secret sense

• “And to your town girls, who no longer see romance in a chimneysweep, your poacher's a pirate and your shepherd a poet.”

  Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

• “In the character of Cupid he more than once descended, with terror, in his flying-gear; as harlequin he used to issue from the egg; and as a little chimneysweep to play the sharpest tricks.”

  Chapter XVIII. Book IV

• “Did you see that bloody chimneysweep near shove my eye out with his brush?”

  Ulysses

• “And then the chimneysweep renews his rounds, and the milkman follows him.”

  Lost Leaders

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