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- noun Plural form of
lamplighter .
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Examples
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He is so self-assured that he commits several cardinal sins, according to the recipes of writing workshops: he always starts in media res, he never explains terms Circus, mole, lamplighters, scalphunters, babysitters, wranglers, inquisitors and he shifts viewpoints constantly and unapologetically.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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He is so self-assured that he commits several cardinal sins, according to the recipes of writing workshops: he always starts in media res, he never explains terms Circus, mole, lamplighters, scalphunters, babysitters, wranglers, inquisitors and he shifts viewpoints constantly and unapologetically.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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A mother cat and her new litter are nestled into a pile of loose sacking against the next house, the lamplighters are working to repair the lamp across the street, and the baker and his wife are having a row in their house on the corner.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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But he's found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he ever has - always too small and too meek, his loneliness continues no matter how hard he tries to succeed.
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He is so self-assured that he commits several cardinal sins, according to the recipes of writing workshops: he always starts in media res, he never explains terms Circus, mole, lamplighters, scalphunters, babysitters, wranglers, inquisitors and he shifts viewpoints constantly and unapologetically.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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A mother cat and her new litter are nestled into a pile of loose sacking against the next house, the lamplighters are working to repair the lamp across the street, and the baker and his wife are having a row in their house on the corner.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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He is so self-assured that he commits several cardinal sins, according to the recipes of writing workshops: he always starts in media res, he never explains terms Circus, mole, lamplighters, scalphunters, babysitters, wranglers, inquisitors and he shifts viewpoints constantly and unapologetically.
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: The Circus Ringmaster: John le Carré Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2011
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But when a haughty young girl, a member of a suspiciously-regarded society of all-women teratologists is forced upon the lamplighters for training, Rossamund might no longer be the most despised soul around.
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Now that the storm was over, the lamplighters had come out to relight the torches that served as streetlights.
Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010
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At intervals along the boulevards, lamplighters set their gay fires.
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