To the cold and weary citizens out on the streets back then, the lamplighter is a very comforting sight. From Wordnik.com. [Convergence and Deregulation in the Energy Marketplace] Reference
The lamplighter was usually a tall man, a character, and his position was considered an important one. From Wordnik.com. [Fifth Avenue] Reference
I still wanted to hide it in the lamplighter nest. From Wordnik.com. [Crashlander]
And the half-breathless lamplighter he's in the net!. From Wordnik.com. [Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864] Reference
Rossamund Bookchild is finally becoming a lamplighter. From Wordnik.com. [Lamplighter by D. M. Cornish: Book summary] Reference
ROBERTS: Or Dickens -- lamplighter, charwoman and a sexton?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2009] Reference
Poetic Obituaries: I think the galosherman was a lamplighter. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
A quaintly attired lamplighter was at work across the street. From Wordnik.com. [The Swordbearer]
I sat with my back against the lip of the dead lamplighter pit. From Wordnik.com. [Crashlander]
The proper place to hide it was in the lamplighter nest, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Crashlander]
Carrington to go up, and Ken darted up the steel ladder like a lamplighter. From Wordnik.com. [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference
Wouldn't the lamplighter bike have a chain that was 6X longer than standard?. From Wordnik.com. [BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!] Reference
We'd scorched the nest, but there would be lamplighter soldiers left outside. From Wordnik.com. [Crashlander]
‘Gentlemen,’ said the lamplighter in the chair, ‘I drink your healths.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Lamplighter's Story] Reference
A lamplighter moved slowly down the street from them, but it was otherwise empty. From Wordnik.com. [Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon] Reference
Daylight is fading quickly and a lamplighter is just beginning his nightly rounds. From Wordnik.com. [Convergence and Deregulation in the Energy Marketplace] Reference
From the corner of the prison a man came along, walking quickly, like a lamplighter. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
Poetry & Poets in Rags: Poetic Obituaries: I think the galosherman was a lamplighter. From Wordnik.com. [Poetic Obituaries: I think the galosherman was a lamplighter.] Reference
One-Eye stopped lifting the lamplighter when his nose was twenty feet off the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Games]
A milk girl was going from door to door, and the lamplighter was vanishing in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
I love to see the lamplighter dot his way along the streets and avenues with lighted periods. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Six Minutes] Reference
A lamplighter ran past Foma, overtook him, placed his ladder against the lamp post and went up. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference
It was early October and still mild, but growing dark, and the lamplighter was well on his rounds. From Wordnik.com. [A Funeral In Blue]
The box has a picture of a lamplighter knocking the glass out of a lamp with the end of his ladder. From Wordnik.com. [England's Edge] Reference
The form of the group, made up of the figures in action, the chair, and the lamplighter, is pleasing. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
The burnt-out lamplighter nest didn't show by daylight, so any passing boat would be afraid to rescue me. From Wordnik.com. [Crashlander]
A lamplighter wound his solitary path down the cobbled street below, nursing the gaslights to flickering life. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
Fafnir coral builds a flat island with a shallow cone rising at the center, a housing for a symbiote, the lamplighter. From Wordnik.com. [Crashlander]
In the old days, when there were oil lamps in the streets, the lamplighter, like the bellman and the watchman, used annually at. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
Twilight comes on; gas begins to start up in the shops; the lamplighter, with his ladder, runs along the margin of the pavement. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
He was employed as a lamplighter, and was able to do his work well, only complaining of attacks of shortness of breath on exertion. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
I'd hovered the lander above the cone while belly jets scorched out the lamplighter nest until it was big enough to hold the lander. From Wordnik.com. [Crashlander]
The lawyer turns, leans his arms on the iron railing at the top of the steps, and looks at the lamplighter lighting the court – yard. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
There is also the difference in dress between the gentleman, who is very Regency looking in his pantaloons and the breechclad lamplighter. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
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