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But, the Bushies consider everything from the WH cheese log budget to retired presidential toilet swabbers as sacrosanct.

When Does Executive Privilege Become Executive Abuse? | Disinformation 2008

For here, how easy would it be for me to assemble a crew of swabbers, and to create a Mrs. Townsend (whose person, thou seest, my beloved knows not) to come on Tuesday, at Miss

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Colbert was way to hip for that cowed gaggle of cadaverous Bush rump-swabbers, toadies and uptight media wags.

Firedoglake » Nedrenaline 2006

Overhead the gunners prepared, the tools of their trade, their rippers and wormheads, rammers and swabbers, buckets and portfires, spikes and fuses.

Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984

The principal officers took each three shares, the gunners and helmsmen two, and the soldiers and swabbers one; the Christian slaves received from 1½ to three shares apiece.

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

In a way he was glad he had drawn the assignment he had: it was difficult, gruelingly heavy labor, carried out under nasty circumstances -- it was never fun to spend any length of time doing manual labor inside a spacesuit, because the sweat-swabbers and the air-conditioners in the suit were generally always one step behind on the job -- but at least the work came to a definite end.

Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg

The gunners and swabbers were putting their cannon in fettle below decks.

The Black Buccaneer 1934

The swabbers brought pans of burning pitch or brimstone into every corner, so that the smoke might penetrate everywhere.

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

Sweepers and swabbers cleaned down the decks twice in every 24 hours.

The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Herbert Brayley Collett 1912

From immediately below him came the swish of mops and the gurgle of water in the scuppers, for it was still early morning, and under the directions of Hayton, the bo'sun, the swabbers were at work in the waist and forecastle.

Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912