sweeper's

He is put on the weeding gang with the women and children, and later made responsible for clearing the dung from the animal pens, a sweeper's job.

'The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul' 2008

"God & his priest & King" have turned the chimney sweeper's heaven into misery.

Blake's Contraries Game 2005

An image flashed from the open hatchway in the sweeper's metal head.

Antrax Brooks, Terry 2001

On the other hand, he was so desperate to get away from this place, that he was refusing to give the sweeper's credibility any consideration at all.

Antrax Brooks, Terry 2001

I have opened myself to visions triggered by the sweeper's memories.

Antrax Brooks, Terry 2001

I got the sack for sweeping the mess on to another sweeper's patch.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 1987

Moreover, we had no means of knowing how close the mine was to one or other of our trawlers, and it was far from improbable that the explosion of the mine would entail our own or our companion sweeper's destruction.

The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

That night I gave Fetnab the soundest thrashing of her pampered life and broke a pot over the sweeper's head.

Flashman Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1969

There cannot remain a doubt as to the nature of the chimney sweeper's case; for, from the knowledge which we have of his occupation, and from the chemical properties manifest after investigation, I think I am entitled to declare the black matter obtained from the bronchial glands to be carbon inhaled with the air during his labour, and not existing as

An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar

And one day when he found a weaver-bird's nest in a bush with three white eggs in it, a splendid nest, stock-full of the fireflies that light the little hen at night, he showed it privately first to Hurry Ghose, and then to Sumpsi Din, and lastly to Budhoo, the sweeper's son; and not one of them could he coax to carry off a single egg in company with him.

The Story of Sonny Sahib Sara Jeannette Duncan