chimney-sweep

The casting of Julie Andrews as supernatural/whimsical nanny Mary Poppins was brilliant Andrews played her charming and so smart, and the world fell in love, as was the casting of the so-likeable Dick Van Dyke as chimney-sweep/philosopher-artist Bert.

Buzzine » ‘Mary Poppins’ at 45 2009

Owing to my excellent timing, I got to be chimney-sweep.

2009 November « Photo-a-Day 2009

If in speaking of my points I think of some system of things, e.g. the system: love, law, chimney-sweep ¦ and then assume all my axioms as relations between these things, then my propositions, e.g. Pythagoras 'theorem, are also valid for these things.

The Frege-Hilbert Controversy Blanchette, Patricia 2009

And if I find him, he will turn me into a chimney-sweep again, I know.

The Water Babies 2007

He was a brave little chimney-sweep; and when he found himself on the top of a high cliff, instead of sitting down and crying for his baba (though he never had had any baba to cry for), he said,

The Water Babies 2007

And then he told Grimes all the story of his going to her house, and how she could not abide the sight of a chimney-sweep, and then how kind she was, and how he turned into a water-baby.

The Water Babies 2007

For, if she had, she would have tempted him to tell lies in his fright; and that would have been worse for him, if possible, than even becoming a heathen chimney-sweep again.

The Water Babies 2007

All she had seen was a poor little black chimney-sweep, crying and sobbing, and going to get up the chimney again.

The Water Babies 2007

But, brave little chimney-sweep as he was, he dared not climb down such chimneys as those.

The Water Babies 2007

Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom.

The Water Babies 2007