steeple-jack

I spoke unreasonably as if, being a millionaire, I could throw away five shillings; or, being a perfect steeple-jack, stumbled over a footstool on purpose.

The Waves 2003

Make all fast, and return here in time for the steeple-jack.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

"Are you a steeple-jack?" asked Fibsy, his eyes sparkling; "can you paint spires and things?"

Raspberry Jam Carolyn Wells 1902

Third: John Mallathorpe had probably slipped the copy into the _History of Barford_ which was in his private office when he went out to speak to the steeple-jack.

The Talleyrand Maxim 1899

The steeple-jack was just coming down, and his mate was waiting for him at the bottom.

The Talleyrand Maxim 1899

Such accidents, however, and, I should think, such interventions, are exceedingly rare, and as a rule the peasants venture freely into places which in England no one but a sailor or a steeple-jack would attempt.

Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino 1881

I had never the heart to look for any length of time -- the thought that I must make the descent in person some dark night robbing me of breath; and, indeed, on anybody not a seaman or a steeple-jack, the mere sight of the Devil's Elbow wrought like an emetic.

St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

in a town like this, of simple people, who have a steeple-jack placing danger signs by the church while he is gilding the solid - pointed star, which on a steeple

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