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- noun someone who cleans soot from chimneys
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Examples
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A cousin of his, who was a chimneysweeper, is now a tribune; and his niece, who was an apprentice to a mantua-maker, is now married to one of the Emperor's chamberlains.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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A cousin of his, who was a chimneysweeper, is now a tribune; and his niece, who was an apprentice to a mantua-maker, is now married to one of the Emperor's chamberlains.
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A cousin of his, who was a chimneysweeper, is now a tribune; and his niece, who was an apprentice to a mantua-maker, is now married to one of the Emperor's chamberlains.
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete Lewis Goldsmith 1804
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A cousin of his, who was a chimneysweeper, is now a tribune; and his niece, who was an apprentice to a mantua-maker, is now married to one of the Emperor's chamberlains.
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 6 Lewis Goldsmith 1804
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"Beastly snub nose!" sputtered out the chimneysweeper in much wrath,
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 Fanny Burney 1796
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Auburn real estate agent ephedrine, his incalescence speakeasy to the gonadotrophic somnambulism of chimneysweeper that hardwood fillmore this so slight of levitra.
Rational Review 2009
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Aidan checking Robbies hole, he is real penetrator the proffesional chimneysweeper which cleaning one or two anus per night.
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My work from home moms and i japheth and bouteloua to griffith falderol chimneysweeper lashing the complex and a eldest discerning to quagga the dog a peril in a breathed gael.
Rational Review 2009
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I say!” answered the chimneysweeper, sturdily; “Hark’ee, my duck,” chucking Cecilia under the chin, “don’t be cajoled, nick that spark! never mind gold trappings; none of his own; all a take-in; hired for eighteenpence; not worth a groat.
Cecilia 2008
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“I believe he’s a mere common chimneysweeper out of the streets, for he’s all over dirt and filth.
Cecilia 2008
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