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lighthouse-keeper

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  • We also saw this one book that had the best tagline ever - "He was the most virile lighthouse-keeper she had ever laid eyes upon."

    meli Diary Entry meli 2000

  • I came at last, however, to the conviction, that, marked as was the distinction gained by this good actor in parts such as these, and as the lighthouse-keeper -- the character originally sustained in private by Charles Dickens -- in Wilkie

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

  • Logan, but that the generous lighthouse-keeper put into the sailor's bundle which he was carrying for him.

    Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Eva Hope

  • No man likes to see a valuable thing destroyed, and it may safely be said that the lighthouse-keeper experienced a most exquisite pleasure as he felt that he had been the means of preventing a terrible catastrophe.

    Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Eva Hope

  • The post of the Longstone lighthouse-keeper was a very dangerous one; and only such men as had proved their integrity, powers of endurance, and fidelity to duty, were ever appointed to that position.

    Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Eva Hope

  • He was the first real lighthouse-keeper I had met.

    Some Naval Yarns Mordaunt Hall

  • We read stories of the lighthouse-keeper; but little is written on the modern man of this species.

    Some Naval Yarns Mordaunt Hall

  • Now the great fort figures as a picture of desolation and is slowly falling to decay, deserted save by the memories of the great conflict, a lighthouse-keeper, and a guard.

    Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

  • Lots of people seem to forget that the lighthouse-keeper is not the coast-guard or the head of the crew of a life-saving station.

    Some Naval Yarns Mordaunt Hall

  • The colour came into the captain's face, and an angry light into his eyes, and he immediately began pouring upon the lighthouse-keeper a volley of abuse.

    Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Eva Hope

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