Sentence examples for chimney sweeping from inspiring English sources

She had been in the chimney sweeping business with her father and brother, and when J.P. married her he became a full partner in the business.

"There's so many parallels with the real thing," said Tudd Dean, owner of a chimney sweeping company from Zionville, N.C. who came to wear the uniform of the Palmetto Riflemen, a Confederate unit.

Inside the white-framed house, with its red chimney, sweeping blue roof and sliding, multicolored transparent acrylic walls, there's an almost relentless amount of fabulousness for a structure so small.

7 Chimney sweeping: Cleaning chimneys of soot and dust, historically done by small boys who could climb the chimney but now done mechanically, could cause a very specific form of cancer – termed "chimney sweep" cancer.

They wear checked shirts, sing about the joys of chimney sweeping and hanging out the washing, and bespectacled singer/"song-crafter" Colin Meloy looks more like someone auditioning for the role of Clark Kent than a rock star.

The bill on 25 March included a four hour domestic clean on 4 March at £70.50; an external window clean on 25 March at £25; a quarterly blitz clean on 25 March at £140; carpet cleaning on 25 March at £150; chimney sweeping on 25 March at £180; and jet washing outside of house 25 March, £225.

But I do need my chimneys sweeping and I was wondering whether a small boy might be available.

The New Yorker, October 13 , 1928P. 17 Recovering gold from the chimney, sweepings, aand clothes of the employees of the United States Assay Offices.

FRAN HOCHMAN MANHATTAN IS CALLING The deck is creaking The faucet is leaking The lawn needs seeding The bushes need weeding The mold is creeping The chimney needs sweeping The trees need pruning The piano needs tuning The rugs are going The bills are growing The city is calling Resistance is falling The children long gone It's time to move on A condo we're buying When prices stop flying!

Walt Disney, who came to see him in Ring Of Truth at the Savoy theatre, saved the day by asking him to appear as Glynis Johns's husband in the film of Mary Poppins, alongside the umbrella-borne Julie Andrews and the chimney-sweeping Dick Van Dyke.

It's hard to see in the diagram above, but while Figure C is a kid in the proper chimney-sweeping posture, Figure E is a kid who is fucked.