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Lamplighter January 1st, 2009 by Trinalor | Filed under lamplighter (noun) essentially a kind of specialised soldier, mostly employed by the Empire, though some states also have them.— Bookspotcentral
The main task of the lamplighter is to go out in the late afternoon and evening to light the bright-limn lamps that line the conduits (highways) of the Empire, and to douse them again in the early morning.— Bookspotcentral
Foundling, we left the young orphan Rossamund (after accompanying him on a most adventurous journey) at Winstermill, to begin his training as a lamplighter.— Bookspotcentral
May 2008 lamplighter (noun) essentially a kind of specialised soldier, mostly employed by the Empire, though some states also have them.— Bookspotcentral
The chief police magistrate he compared to the lamplighter, by whom gas is detested.— The History of Tasmania , Volume II

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