61 examples of chimney-sweep in sentences
Probably my idea of enjoyment would not accord with the chimney-sweep's, but at the same time I don't look down on the poor beggar because he hasn't been as fortunate as I in getting his bread well buttered.
" "Then why do you not recognize it in your chimney-sweep?
Chimney-sweep,by your leave, Gentlemen. Ant.
Then the little shepherdess cried, and looked at her sweetheart, the chimney-sweep.
They could see for a very long distance out into the wide world, and the poor little shepherdess leaned her head on her chimney-sweep's shoulder and wept.
"He can be riveted," said the chimney-sweep....
Once he read to her that wonderful sad tale of Hans Christian Andersen's which treats of the china chimney-sweep and the shepherdess, who eloped from their bedizened tiny parlor-table, and were frightened by the vastness of the world outside, and crept ignominiously back to their fit home.
And the old grandfather was glad, at bottom, he had it in his neck so that he couldn't nod and separate the shepherdess from the chimney-sweep.
"My dear," the colonel said whimsically, "I am afraid we are rather like the shepherdess and the chimney-sweep of the fable I read you very long ago.
There was Bushy-Tail, the sly old Fox acting as a chimney-sweep.
Arundel Castle and the chimney-sweep legend, 127.
Wrestle with a chimney-sweep and you will need a bath.
He was black as a chimney-sweep, but he reported good progress and grinned at our discomfort from the smoke and heat.
Then the little girl knew him, she said, for the little chimney-sweep who had come into the bedroom.
THE CHIMNEY-SWEEP.
As he continued to watch the passers-by, there came along a poor chimney-sweep, with his soot-bag and brush; his feet were very red, and looked as if they were bitten with the frost, for his shoes only half-covered his poor swollen feet, and he had no stockings on.
The poor chimney-sweep weptfor so much kindness had touched his heart, and he sobbed out his thanks as well as he could, and took his leave after receiving some small pieces of silver, which.
"It helps 'em to find their feetlike lighting the fire when the chimney-sweep's boy got stuck in the chimney.
Whereupon little Sloppet, who was organ-blower and verger and beadle and sexton and bell-ringer on Sundays, besides being postman and chimney-sweep all the week, would go out very briskly and valiantly and send him mournfully away.
" "I would sit down to dinner with a chimney-sweep, if he were a favourite of yours, Marianor Mrs. Holbrook; I suppose I must call you that now.
This noise was made by a chimney-sweep who had just come down the chimney and now stood in your room.
"This is the story of little Napoleon and the chimney-sweep!
If he had known that I was in so reduced a state that I should have enjoyed a colloquy with a chimney-sweep, and not despised exchanging opinions with a dustman, he would not have thought my admission worth much.
Why, in America, there isn't a man from the President to a chimney-sweep, from a major-general to the blackest nigger in the cotton fields, who wouldn't do ten times that much for any woman!
To my bewildered and disordered brain, Aladdin's palace seemed suddenly to rise before me in that wilderness of sealed houses and uninhabited streets; for, as I have said before, the very dogs had crept away that night into secure corners, and not even a pariah chimney-sweep, with his dingy blanket drawn close around him, nodded and dozed by a watch-box or slept on a door-step.