window-cleaner

Barry was a bit of a catch: he was the son of a window-cleaner but he looked Spanish and exotic, and he was the Romeo of Hoylake.

John Lennon, Cynthia 2005

By a mercy she saw the window-cleaner just pushing his ladder out of the passage of a house a little farther down the road.

The Trespasser 2003

The window-cleaner, quite unnerved, ran from the room and scrambled down the ladder.

The Trespasser 2003

The window-cleaner tugged at it frantically, till he got it loose.

The Trespasser 2003

Beatrice was opening her mouth to scream, when the window-cleaner exclaimed weakly, as if dubious:

The Trespasser 2003

‘Why, mum?’ answered the window-cleaner, who knew her, and was humbly familiar.

The Trespasser 2003

It was an old white ante-bellum type house, so Colonial that it creaked, with a huge pillared two-story porch, a curiously double-angled roof of a type I'd never seen before and enough glass to keep an active window-cleaner in year-round employment.

Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

"Well, it's a peculiar story, Larry, and it's a good thing you weren't a real window-cleaner " a dishonest one might easily have guessed what the old man was doing!

The Mystery of Holly Lane Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1953

The window-cleaner waved a shoe-brush at Fatty, and the boy went round to the front, untied Buster from the fence and walked back home.

The Mystery of Holly Lane Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1953

He then began to ask the window-cleaner a few questions: how much did a ladder cost?

The Mystery of Holly Lane Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1953