chimney sweeper

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If you burn wood, you probably know to have a certified chimney sweeper clean the chimney and inspect the fireplace annually.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2021

One will open to you and ask if you are the chimney sweeper; you shall answer that you are thin and that you have not lost the card.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de

The chimney sweeper, the lost child, and even the sick rose are remembered in his verse.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post

The lowly chimney sweeper, paid 6d. a day, served an apprenticeship as a boy, and then was his own master.

From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by Reilly, S. A.

William Davis, a chimney sweeper of King Street, St. Ann's, Westminster, was called on for king's taxes to the amount of four pounds twelve shillings, on the 23rd of October, by Sharp the collector.

From The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell by Campbell, Theophila Carlile