It would be like saying you were a steeplejack who was afraid of heights. From Wordnik.com. [Stage Fright . . . trancework] Reference
So, when I had finished my steeplejack duties, I lowered my saw to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [No Ordinary Utensil] Reference
Somewhere above meperhaps at the very top of this tower, where the di Caela banner fluttered red and blue and white in the last hour before some steeplejack of a servant clambered up to lower it for the eveninga nightingale began its dark serenade of stars and moons. From Wordnik.com. [Virginity] Reference
London steeplejack Sidney Larkins, whose company used to clean the column. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
A crowd is spellbound in watching a steeplejack at work, or an aviator doing a. From Wordnik.com. [My Second Year of the War] Reference
He climbed skyscrapers and flagpoles and smokestacks and was a famous steeplejack. From Wordnik.com. [Rootabaga Stories] Reference
"Pish!" answered another, "it is steeplejack Jan, who can hang on a wall like a fly.". From Wordnik.com. [Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch] Reference
The hats will have to be removed from the ancient spires by a professional steeplejack. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Blixie Bimber liked him because he was a steeplejack, a little, but more because he was a whistler. From Wordnik.com. [Rootabaga Stories] Reference
I got a steeplejack to put a ladder up the side of the building and he pulled it down to half-mast. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
A SPECIALIST steeplejack and building restoration firm has revealed plans to open more offices, creating jobs. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"Aye -- and Gaukrodger, and Marshall, and the steeplejack that had just come down, and another or two," said Cobcroft. From Wordnik.com. [The Talleyrand Maxim] Reference
He saw that the steeplejack had now reached the point where his work was waiting for him, work that required nerve and courage. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
PLANS to convert the former home of celebrity steeplejack and steam enthusiast Fred Dibnah into a heritage centre have hit the buffers. From Wordnik.com. [Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed] Reference
Mr Dibnah, the Bolton steeplejack who shot to fame in a television documentary about his life, restored the machine over a 25-year period. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
The steeplejack had fallen, so to speak, right into the middle of his department; and with the King's donation coming on the top the catastrophe bulked large. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
Rainey and Co., steeplejack firm, has estimated costs to St. Aidan's Cathedral in Enniscorthy to come in at over €95,000, along with a further contingency figure of. From Wordnik.com. [Clerical Whispers] Reference
He dismissed the notion; but further reflection confirmed him in his determination not to tell anybody; he did not want to explain how he had walked upstairs fancying himself a steeplejack. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
As he ascended the marble staircase which led from the great hall toward the private apartments he was still thinking of the steeplejack, the man who somehow seemed now to be an emblem of himself. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
It is so funny for that steeplejack up aloft in his crow's-nest to make declarations of love under your very nose to the little beauty whilst singing out his prayers, and making appointments with her between bits of the. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin of Tarascon] Reference
This helps to explain why, after leaving school, I lavished so much of my energy on overcoming terror, and myself learned to parachute, ride the Cresta Run, steeplejack and otherwise make terms with the demons conjured by Father's doings. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
He had been extending his inquiries -- further and more particular inquiries into the life and domestic relations of the unfortunate steeplejack; and he had discovered, oh, horror! but just in time, that the woman who had lived with him was not his wife. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
As for the King he was thoroughly put out; the steeplejack was by association beginning to assume in his mind a very particular importance; he had become a symbol not merely of the sovereign himself, but of that act of statesmanship which he had been adjured to undertake by his favorite newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
And, say, why did you tell me you wasn't a steeplejack painter, when you are? ". From Wordnik.com. [Raspberry Jam] Reference
"The college authorities are not happy about it and are arranging to have them removed as soon as possible by a professional steeplejack. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
In a word it was a steeplejack. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
"No, not that way -- steeplejack.". From Wordnik.com. [Raspberry Jam] Reference
"You mean the steeplejack?" queried the King. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
A steeplejack. From Wordnik.com. [Spring mending time] Reference
"A steeplejack has fallen.". From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
Flea, the climber, the steeplejack. From Wordnik.com. [Rootabaga Stories] Reference
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