street-cleaners

For decades the Shia were seen as the shoeshine boys and street-cleaners, and now not only have the Shia had their honor restored but they are becoming educated and rising in social status.

Omid Memarian: My Interview With Deborah Campbell: How Hezbollah's Triumph is Blowback for U.S. Policy 2008

* And finally the teachers, street-cleaners, public health officials, garbage-men, tax collectors, managers of industry and ice-cream truck drivers

First, Send Everybody Home 2007

One of the Abadgaran's leaders is Tehran Mayor Mahmud Ahmadinejad, who occasionally dons the outfit of city street-cleaners and helps them sweep the capital.

IRAN: THE ECONOMY: A FUTURE LESS BRIGHT 2007

One of the Abadgaran's leaders is Tehran Mayor Mahmud Ahmadinejad, who occasionally dons the outfit of city street-cleaners and helps them sweep the capital.

The Economy: A Future Less Bright 2007

In the better parts of town, that was probably what it did do-but the street-cleaners were paid by the number of streets they covered, and every time they had to go back to the river filling-station to get more water, they lost time.

The Eagle And The Nightingale Lackey, Mercedes 1995

Here and there squads of street-cleaners appeared, and belated hucksters urged their horses toward the markets; but except for these, the streets were deserted, and the little coupe that carried Caesar and his misfortunes rolled rapidly toward the Barriere du Trone.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Berlin, you may see women staggering along with huge loads on their backs; in Munich, women are street-cleaners and hod-carriers; on the island of Capri, the trunk of the tourist is lifted by two men onto the shoulder of a woman, who carries it up the steep road to the village.

A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. Eugene A. Hecker

I'm sure if you were just to open your mouth, and sing, out there in the square -- "he waved a brush --" people would come running from all over the city and throw yellow and green bills at you like leaves, till you had to be dug out with long shovels by those funny street-cleaners who go about looking dirty in white clothes.

The Nest Builder Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

Bootblacks might prefer to become artistic decorators; street-cleaners would ask to be put in charge of big factories; night-workers would prefer day-work.

The Red Conspiracy Joseph J. Mereto

The street cars were full of happy people rollicking off to work: policemen directed the traffic with jaunty affability: and the white-clad street-cleaners went about their poetic tasks with a quiet but none the less noticeable relish.

The Adventures of Sally 1928