chimney-sweeps

When I came in, I noticed the chimney-sweeps at work.

Chapter 13 2010

Reliable sources are hard to find and probably more difficult to evaluate, but it is possible that even the reviled/pitied government of North Korea treats its kids better than England treated 10 year old chimney-sweeps or Europe in general treated 10 year old serfs.

More Annals of the Great Depression: What Divides Us And Why Tenured Radical 2009

But, to make up to them for having to do such nasty work, they were not left black and dirty, as poor chimney-sweeps and dustmen are.

The Water Babies 2007

But as for chimney-sweeps, and collier-boys, and nailer lads, my sister has set good people to stop all that sort of thing; and very much obliged to her I am; for if she could only stop the cruel masters from ill-using poor children, I should grow handsome at least a thousand years sooner.

The Water Babies 2007

You soon discover that a considerable number of your second cousins exhibit a strong social tendency to be chimney-sweeps and tinkers.

G.K. Speaks - The Family and The Feud 2007

Fourier used to say that we ought to do the same by chimney-sweeps and dustmen, and honour them instead of despising them; and he was

The Water Babies 2007

At one of the innumerable windows, you watch a figure moving; on one of the multitude of roofs, you watch clambering chimney-sweeps.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

Enough of our own to keep them clean, although we all were chimney-sweeps.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

But Chinamen to Trotty were fearsome bogies, corresponding to the swart-faced, white-eyed chimney-sweeps of the English nursery.

Australia Felix 2003

He said, It is only a hundred years since you were using hundreds of children as chimney-sweeps in London.

World Health 1951