On the rug stood a long, shallow fruit-basket of the light wicker-work which is used in the Campagna, and this was heaped with a litter of objects, inscribed tiles, broken inscriptions, cracked mosaics, torn papyri, rusty metal ornaments, which to the uninitiated might have seemed to have come straight from a dustman's bin, but which a specialist would have speedily recognized as unique of their kind.

It was a gorgeous thingrather the shape of a dustman's helmet, with a large scarlet bird nestling on one side of it, sheltered by some heavy undergrowth.

It was because the dustman did not come; It was because our cat was overfed, And, gorged with some superior pabulum, Declined to touch the cod's disgusting head; It was because the weather was too warm To hide the horror in the refuse-bin, And too intense the perfume of its form, My wife commanded me to do the sin, To take and cast it in the twinkling Thames A practice which the neighbourhood condemns.

II.The Golden Dustman Mr. Boffin, a broad, round-shouldered, one-sided old fellow in mourning, dressed in a pea overcoat, and wearing thick leather gaiters, and gloves like a hedger's, came ambling towards the street corner where Silas Wegg sat at his stall.

I meet you at once, free and fair, withDone, for double the money!" From that night Silas Wegg came to read at Boffin's Boweror Harmony Jail, as the house was formerly calledand he soon learnt that his employer was no other than the inheritor of old Harmon's property, and that he was known as the Golden Dustman.

II.The Golden Dustman Deteriorates Miss Bella Wilfer was conscious that she was growing mercenary.

" Bella parted from her father, and returned to the Boffins, to find fresh proofs of the deterioration of the Golden Dustman.

The crisis came one morning when the Golden Dustman's bearing towards Rokesmith was even more arrogant and offensive than it had been before.

You do not find the pitman, the dustman, or the bargee puling for bayonet exercise to make them hard, and if our nervous gentlemen were all serving the State in those capacities, they might even approach their addition sums in "Dreadnoughts" without a tremor.

A match was made between two splendid dandies, called respectfully by their comrades "Nobby" and "The Dustman," to walk from Knightsbridge Barracks to Windsor Bridge that day weekthe odds being slightly in favour of "The Dustman," who was a peer of the realm.

A match was made between two splendid dandies, called respectfully by their comrades "Nobby" and "The Dustman," to walk from Knightsbridge Barracks to Windsor Bridge that day weekthe odds being slightly in favour of "The Dustman," who was a peer of the realm.

I'd give the dustman five shillings to carry you off in the dust-cart.

what a wondrous powerful spell Punch holds o'er Dustman and his bell; And scolding Wife with clapper still The Landlord quits awhile his till, While Pot-boy, busiest of the bunch, Steals pence for self, and beer for Punch.

A dustman perambulates the road on the Braintree side, and canned food becomes possible and convenient therefore.

Bocking, less fortunate than its neighbour, has no dustman apparently, and is left with the tin on its hands.

It would take years to work the thing and get down to the footing of one water supply and an ambidextrous dustman on the lines of perfect justice and satisfactoriness all round.

BOFFIN (Nicodemus), "the golden dustman," foreman of old John Harmon, dustman and miser.

BOFFIN (Nicodemus), "the golden dustman," foreman of old John Harmon, dustman and miser.

Being residuary legatee of John Harmon, dustman, he came in for £100,000.

She was a fat, smiling, good-tempered creature, the servant of old John Harmon, dustman and miser, and very kind to the miser's son (young John Harmon).

The dustman visits not; we can't get castor; In vain are parlour-maids and plumbers sought, And human intellect can scarcely master The time when beer may lawfully be bought, Or calculate how cash can go much faster, And if one's butcher's acting as he ought.

In William Morris's News from Nowhere the customs of family life extend to the streets, and the tired student from the British Museum talks with easy intimacy to the thirsty dustman.

She vanished suddenly, and everybody thought she had eloped with the Russian Duke B (he had been paying her marked attention), but it turned out afterwards that she had married a dustman.

Dustman and nightman issue their prospectus.

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.