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- noun Someone whose job is to
sweep streetcrossings .
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Examples
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A couple of Mayfair swells; and the Indian crossing-sweeper who cleared the mud from those quality streets.
Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life; Fiona Banner: Duveens Commission 2010
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But every newspaper man, every crossing-sweeper, thinks himself a moralist.
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Then I saw him, outside the entrance to the Bank, amongst a huddle of pedestrians waiting for the crossing-sweeper to do his work.
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(The crossing-sweeper does not obstruct the path, and I suppose is away at his villa on Sundays.)
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He knew exactly how he stood, even with the crossing-sweeper to whom he had given a penny last Tuesday, as with the Longestaffes, father and son, to whom he had not as yet made any payment on behalf of the purchase of Pickering.
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He halted at the pavement edge, where a crossing had been swept, for it had rained; and extracting a penny from his trouser pocket, gave it to the crossing-sweeper, who looked up at his long figure with a round and knowing eye.
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And the boy, Wikkey Whiston, was a crossing-sweeper.
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I am sorry for this, for I fancy people are becoming a little tired of the race, in story-books at least, but as he _was_ a crossing-sweeper it cannot be helped.
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"Why don't yer try my place where I sleep?" said another crossing-sweeper to him one day, when he told him his trouble.
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When we went to see the woman, Jenny, we found her in her poor little cottage, nursing a vagrant boy called Jo, a crossing-sweeper, who had tramped down from London, and was tramping he didn't know where.
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