And I support the crossing sweeper at Lansdowne Passage because she once said she felt sorry for him.
For the last few months he had been living like a crossing-sweeper in order to be able to stay in London until she came back to it, and that he might still send her the gifts he had always laid on her altar.
So I jest watched and in a day or two back come the young sweeper feller again, and we had him to dinner.
I seen the same young feller that sold Jabez the sweeper hangin' about the mill a good bit.
The chimney-sweeper above is the very quintessence of affectation.
The crew of the mine-sweeper Dainty had had their curiosity aroused by the sight of three peculiar-looking steamers flying the White Ensign, which came to anchor near them one Saturday evening.
The skipper of mine-sweeper 99 was Harry Snowling, R.
For the last few months he had been living like a crossing sweeper in order to be able to stay in London until she came back to it, and that he might still send her the gifts he had always laid on her altar.
First this Rangar--next a sweeper hag--what follows?
Speaking like an omen from the deepest shadow, the sweeper called to Jaimihr.
There is one, I will tell him, a sweeper in the palace, who refused to bear tidings when the need was great.
She asked the lounging sweeper by the arch whether Ali Partab had ridden out as yet.
I am Envy; begot by a Chimny-sweeper upon an Oyster-wench.
Envy: I am Envy; begot by a Chimny-sweeper upon an Oyster-wench.
To me his figures of this kind, when they are not too intensely elaborated, are not the least touching; and there is something as pathetic in the uncouth convict Magwitch as in the consumptive crossing-sweeper Jo.
The young couple are married, and the chimney-sweeper is burnt.
After a short run in the wake of a passing paddle mine-sweeper I hit a big wave, before I had got flying speed, and was thrown into the air.
When the mine-sweeper first opened fire the wireless operator seized his Aldis lamp and began signalling furiously to one of the ships.
A Gateshead chimney-sweeper was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for the manslaughter of an unhappy little lad who was suffocated in attempting to carry out his orders in clearing a flue.
Odis thesweeper and Abu Butrán the stoker, and everyone wanted to have him.
The name is derived from the Sanskrit dhanuska, an archer, and the caste is an ancient one, its origin as given in the Padma Purana, quoted by Sir Henry Elliot, being from a Chamar father and a Chandal or sweeper mother.
The name is derived from the Sanskrit Charmakara, a worker in leather; and, according to classical tradition, the Chamar is the offspring of a Chandal or sweeper woman by a man of the fisher caste.
Eves and O'Reilly were splashed from head to foot, but the full effect of this outrageous behaviour of the road-sweeper was felt by Noakes and the councillors immediately behind him.
A few of the more curious waited to see what further antics the road-sweeper performed.
I suppose you'll be too much occupied with your road-sweeper to bother about it?
Nobody wants a road-sweeper to go like a Rolls-Royce.
I've rigged up the mechanism, rather roughly, on an old road-sweeper I got cheap, and a little more tinkering should put it in working order.
They ran the road-sweeper up the muddy lane to the high road, Eves remarking that there was great scope for the activities for which the machine was designed.
O'Reilly looked on critically as Templeton drove the sweeper slowly up the lane; then he stepped into the cab and told the driver to follow at a reasonable distance.
The macadamised surface of the highway was less miry, and Templeton assured his friend that he would not get very much splashed if the speed of the sweeper was kept low.
As often as the Chimney is swept, the Chimney-sweeper takes down this temporary wall, which is very easily done, and when he has finished his work, he puts it again into its place.
Chimney-sweeper gets up the Chimney is represented by white dotted lines.
The lower part of the door-way left for the Chimney-sweeper is shown in this Figure by white dotted lines.
Provision must be made for the passage of the Chimney-sweeper up the Chimney.
It was used by the flat-sweeper and messengers for the stowage of brooms, polishing paste, caustic soda and other appliances of their craft, and was just large enough to hold a small man upright.
Where the street ran into shops there was still a shuttered blankness, but here and there a doorkeeper yawned and stretched himself before an open door, and a sweeper made a cloud of dust beneath a commercial verandah.
A sweeper and a cook they did with; it would surprise the people in this country, who couldn't get along with less than twenty, she often said.
He waylaid a sweeper slinking out, and the man showed him where an open staircase ran down against the wall in one corner.
The daily brushing up with broom or carpetsweeper removes the surface dirt, but sweeping day means a good "digging out.
Rooms not in daily use do not need a thorough sweeping oftener than every two weeks, a whisk broom and carpet sweeper sufficing between times.
After enduring many perils, he returned to his native land, crippled and poor, and subsequently became sweeper of the road at Charing Cross.
Don Roque liked to come upon a road-sweeper or a stone-breaker at his work.
The sweeper himself, in spite of his awkward position, could not help smiling at the energy with which the figure, with its coat-tails flying, made erratic and angry dashes at the ground.
Then when he met a little Crossing Sweeper standing broom in hand, Sweep would fling a handful of pennies to the little creature.
The Empress Yelva ordered that a cottage and a piece of ground, as well as two bags filled with gold, be given to each Crossing Sweeper in reward for their brave deeds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sweeper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
