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

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.

You have encountered a chimney sweeper, and of course you get some of the soot.

From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony

A little chimney sweeper, with puffed cheeks, all black with soot, and clad in tatters, held out his hand to beg for the man's last pence.

From The Magic Skin by Marriage, Ellen

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