| 单词 | dustman |
| 例句 | Squelch's dad's only a dustman but his garden's like a National Trust property. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She said they could get smitten with “the dustman, the postman, the butcher or the prime minister. It happens to be about the people.” Queen! Bow Down to Tattoo-Flashing Octogenarian Dame Dench 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The following weekend, Robin and I have our first big fire, disposing of all the rubbish that the dustmen have refused to deal with. 'Jesus, Ralph, you're dangerous' | Rupert Thomson 2010-03-27T00:36:00Z In Our Mutual Friend, the first thing the illiterate dustman Mr. Boffin does on inheriting a fortune is to hire a man to read to him nightly from Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Why to Read Dickens Now (Or Watch Him on TV) 2012-01-26T19:39:00Z In reality, she is the poor daughter of a dustman who speaks with a thick Cockney accent. Americans are Fast to Judge Social Class 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z "They drive on the roads that are maintained by them, the brown cardboard boxes they deliver are collected by dustmen or taken to tips paid for by those business rates." 'Raise VAT to save the High Street' 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Manual labour, mostly - builder, dustman, crane driver, painter and decorator. You're losing everything - but you don’t understand why 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The British equivalents were the old racecourses where dukes and dustmen bet and cursed together, and the marble gaming halls where Regency dandies went skint. Casino rule 1: the house always wins 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z No sooner have the merchants lowered their shutters at the end of the day than the dustmen under the command of Iyad abu Rudeineh are primed to enter its tangle of restored old alleys. Will it be cut off? 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z So you play golf with your dustman or you're in a tennis club with someone living a completely different life than you. Pace of modern life: UK v Denmark 2013-07-30T08:37:00Z And each spinner must give the impression that it is a new organisation, not the trash the dustman left behind. Schumpeter: The art of the spin-off 2013-05-02T15:05:58Z Whatever job you do – dustman, cricketer, doctor – any pressure you bring you bring on yourself. Harold 'Dickie' Bird: this much I know 2013-04-20T18:00:03Z She lumbered her party with a “poll tax” which required both dukes and dustmen to pay exactly the same for their local-government services—a tax so unpopular that her Tory successor rescinded it. Margaret Thatcher: No ordinary politician 2013-04-11T15:18:13Z She lumbered her party with a “poll tax” which required both dukes and dustmen to pay exactly the same for their local-government services—a tax so unpopular that she had to rescind it. Margaret Thatcher: A cut above the rest 2013-04-08T16:13:04Z If I wasn't a cricketer, I might be a dustman or something. James Tredwell to take his chance for England against Australia 2012-07-06T17:52:45Z But the real symbol of Borel's transformation should perhaps be the dustman making his rounds twice a day, and the consequent cleanliness of the streets. In Pictures: Inside one of Rio's favelas 2012-06-21T00:38:24Z If this is true it would quite explain The horrible dreams that come, For the dustman looks a rough sort of chap, And his cart smells awfully rum. Kensington Rhymes 2012-03-15T02:00:28.607Z The “dustman’s bell,” or the “watchman’s rattle,” would, I verily believe, pass unnoticed amid their stormy tongues. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Animosity and hostility between nations is a corrective of this sentimental slackness, and to that extent it plays a useful r�le, however ugly it may appear—"not pretty, but useful, like the dustman." The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z When Khayyam quittance at Death's hand receives, And sheds his outworn life, as trees their leaves, Full gladly will he sift this world away, Ere dustmen sift his ashes in their sieves. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z "You have knocked off early," observed the Missionary, looking with kindness into the face of the dustman. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z I'VE heard it said that the dustman Is responsible for our sleep, That he puts a pinch of dust in our eyes When the stars begin to peep. Kensington Rhymes 2012-03-15T02:00:28.607Z George is responsible for very neat portraits of a beadle, waterman, dustman, watchman ..., and the Cruikshankian enthusiast cries "Eureka!" for he spies Mr Bumble among them. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z He was convinced that if Mrs. Bindle were about again before the merciful arrival of the dustman, she would inevitably subject the dust-bin to a rigorous examination. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z The bellman who frightened the sleepers at midnight, was extinct; but modern London had acquired the dustman’s bell. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z How merrily the dustmen are spreading the refuse over the surface of the grass. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 2011-06-29T02:00:26.507Z Does she turn it upside down over a bucket of rubbish as they do in England, leaving the tea-leaves to go to the dustman when he calls on Friday? A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z There were also two dustmen with a cart clearing up rubbish and bits of newspaper, and a water-man watering the asphalt, and some postmen outside the Post Office loading a mail-van. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z Where are the dustmen’s bells of our childhood? Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z His noisy bell the dustman rings, Her dust the housemaid gladly brings: Ringing he goes from door to door, Until his cart will hold no more. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z He was soon entangled in dinners; of his trials at a hospital dinner he wrote of listening to speeches and sentiments such “as any moderately intelligent dustman” would have blushed to have thought of. Springtime and Other Essays The dustman point-blank refused to touch the refuse from "The Cedars" unless it were placed on the pavement, and the gate securely closed. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall "Does you really think so, mamma?" and Max's eyes, which had begun to look as if the dustman had been passing by, grew bright and eager again. Five Minutes' Stories When the red had finally died out of the western sky the dustman came round, and the eyes of the little ones grew heavy. Windyridge Bring out your dust, the dustman cries, Whilst ringing of his bell: If the wind blows, pray guard your eyes, To keep them clear and well. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z "Of course not if he wants to be a dustman, but anything that's all right." Carnival The steps are not cleaned, and there is nobody about but sweeps and dustmen, and milk carts.” Blind Policy Olave Shut-eye, a personage as well known by name to the children of Denmark, as the dustman is to those of England. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 In the opinion of Mr. Roach Smith, Mr. Dodd was the origin of the "golden dustman" in Our Mutual Friend, whom every reader of Dickens remembers as Mr. Nicodemus, alias Noddy Boffin. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land What’s that?” suddenly exclaimed little Jem, running as fast as his poor withered legs would allow him, toward a fresh heap, which had just been shot down on the wharf from a dustman’s cart. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 All they wish is to have the same immunity from the annoyances of street music as the rest of the community have from dustmen’s bells, post-horns, and other unnecessary disturbances.” English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Riley has taken a house in Argyle p. 274Square; and, upon entering it, purposes to give a dinner to all the dustmen in London, and illuminate the front of his house.” Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign The dustmen reminded one of the days of one's childhood when in England; they went round ringing a bell and calling "Dust-ooh!" The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The cabmen on the rank in the piazza hailed her with cries of “Rosi”; she was greeted by beggars at the street corners, dustmen, carabinieri, crossing-sweepers, and Olive was not wholly unembarrassed. Olive in Italy To me they are exactly like the lids of those galvanised dustbins you see put out in streets for the dustmen at home. Round the Wonderful World Peers and provincials, dukes and dustmen, all grades and classes of people swelled the tide which night after night rolled its wave up the passage of the Adelphi. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. In one kind of Socialism the civil engineer, the actor, the general, the artist, the tram guard, the dustman, the milliner, and the collier would all be paid the same wages. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals Because, if there are to be no social distinctions, there's no reason why all the sweeps and dustmen in Christendom shouldn't come and play the violin at Krakatoa Villa.... Somehow Good It is our keenness again; we are here to drill; to form fours, to march, to wheel; we want to learn to be soldiers, not dustmen. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 30, 1914 Francis Bacon made her majesty "a poor oblation of a garment;" Charles Smith, the dustman, threw upon the pile of treasure "two bottes of cambric." A Book About Lawyers And his admiration for an extremely good‑looking person, even of his own sex, even a scavenger or a dustman, was almost snobbish. The Martian Note, that the dustman's face should be droll, and not horrible. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Perhaps Sally felt it would be a feeble line of defence to dwell on the scarcity of good violinists among sweeps and dustmen, and that was why she fell into rank without comment. Somehow Good There were men there who made such speeches and expressed such sentiments as any moderately intelligent dustman would have blushed through his cindery bloom to have thought of. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 But there again the dustman might delve; the Employers' Liability Act is a tricky business and I am only insured against my own death—which always seems to me silly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 The arm which sows fever is invisible like the dustman's hand, the old fellow who comes every night and makes the little ones so sleepy. Child Life In Town And Country 1909 And I pointed to a dustman's cart that had just hove into view. Explorers of the Dawn "You talk as if he was a sweep or a dustman," said she. Somehow Good A man, whether he's a duke or a dustman, is judged on his merits in the regimental family. Mufti HE wind against the window blows; The dustman comes along the street; The lamps are lit, the darkness grows; The dreams come in with noiseless feet. Chatterbox, 1906 "Did you do that?" said the North Countryman, pointing to the dustman. The History of "Punch" This time he was represented by a dustman; and for once Mr. Shaw consented to temper his wisdom to the limitations of its repository. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 And so, you see, having knocked about enough to grow careless of niceties of prejudice, and to acquire immense admiration for any vocation which promises permanence, I join hands with the dustman. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance It is evident from the passage that he came round on Boxing Day for his douceur, reminding his patrons, as the dustmen now do sometimes, by a copy of verses. Pickwickian Studies Now, one is awakened here by a bell, which I never can liken to any other than a dustman's, and can hardly find a spot whereto parasols and smart forage-caps intrude not. Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. It represented a brute of a dustman belabouring his horse's head with the butt-end of his whip. The History of "Punch" Not bad for a dustman, but Mr. Shaw has done better. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 There was one literary relic, however, of inestimable value; it consisted of an unpublished chapter in Our Mutual Friend, in which the golden dustman was killed by Silas Wegg. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Baby's sleepy, so is Claire— "Ah!" says Mother on the stair, To little folks that yawn and blink, "The dustman's coming, I should think." London Town Which would sadden any just man, And might make an angel weep— Dicksee distanced by a dustman, Storey staggered by a sweep! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 24, 1892 And at all times he was ready to mix freely and on terms of social equality with all who shared his sympathies, dukes and dustmen, Cabinet ministers and costermongers. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies As for Mr. Edmund Gurney, he was far the best dustman I have ever met. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 And as his body went to the grave the whole record of his life—thousands of roulette cards in neat packets, innumerable notebooks containing the great secret—lay waiting for the dustman. The Guests Of Hercules The dustman home is going soon, For there you see the rising moon. London Town The dustman would have been more in your line. Plays of Near & Far There was Joey, the billy-goat, such an entertaining fellow, who could pick up and set down anything with his horns from a basket to a dustman. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 In the Fifth you should go away for good the moment that the dustman makes his exit. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 Gilbert glanced at the mass and, as I mentioned at the beginning of this book, told the dustman to carry it off. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Mother's right, for sure enough Here's the dustman, strong and bluff. London Town An old satire written at the time of the Reformation brings together actors, dustmen, jugglers, conjurers, and sellers of indulgences. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour There’s nothing out of No-man’s-land So drowsy since the world began, As “Dustman, dustman, Dustman.” Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen There he stands at the door of his stable, dressed in his blue blouse, dustman's hat, and maroon kerchief tightly fastened round his neck. The Great German Composers An old woman's face, peering round the doorway, discovered her sitting on the doorstep, a Greek dustman gazing stupidly at her. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia Here, it seems, that gentlemen who differ must behave like dustmen. The Betrayal If anything were to decide Cook to go it would be handing over Dundee's remains to the dustman. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 Dustman, dustman, Hurry by and let me sleep. Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen I find that the London dustman earns more than an assistant master under the Salford School Board, and, besides his wages, he picks up many trifles. Side Lights Is a dustman's voice more sweet than ourn, when he comes a seeking arter the cinders, Instead of a little boy like a blackbird in spring, singing merrily under your windows? The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood "But, my dear man," said Sypher, laying his hand on his friend's shoulder, and paying no heed to the dog, ham, and dustman story, "aren't you two living together?" Septimus "I thought the dustman—" "Out of the question." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 Dustman, dustman, And when I want to play some more, You never then are further off Than the next door. Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen And now we may turn to the wages of dustmen, who are, it must be admitted, a most estimable class of men and most useful. Side Lights In these days of keen competition every one lies—every editor, publisher, undertaker, piano-tuner, dustman—they couldn't live if they didn't. The Sorcery Club I tried to throw him some cold ham the other morning about six o'clock to stop him; but it hit a sort of dustman, who ate it and looked up for more. Septimus Let me ask, What are the real feelings of a householder who is requested to hand out a present to a turncock or dustman whom he has never seen? The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour And as for that shocking bad habit of swearing,-- In all good society voted past bearing,-- Eschew it! and leave it to dustmen and mobs, Nor commit yourself much beyond "Zooks!" or "Odsbobs!" 2do. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Decidedly the dustman has the best of the bargain all round, for, to say the least, he does not need to labour very much harder than the professional man. Side Lights What still remains, of coals, and cinders unconsumed, the dustman's perquisite, are measured first, "thence hurried back to fire:" the wood, the sifters take. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 287, December 15, 1827 We are waiting for our poet, he who will sing to us fearlessly of the rude industry of dustmen and the comestible glories of the market-places. Confessions of a Young Man Let any one who wishes to estimate the strength of this control, propose to himself to walk through the streets in the dress of a dustman, or hawk vegetables from door to door. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice We are waiting for our poet, he who will sing to us fearlessly of the rude industry of dustmen and the comestible glories of the marketplaces. Confessions of a Young Man It is not good to know that a dustman makes more money than hundreds of hard-worked and well-educated men, for this is a grotesque state of things brought about by imbecile Government officials. Side Lights In William Morris's News from Nowhere the customs of family life extend to the streets, and the tired student from the British Museum talks with easy intimacy to the thirsty dustman. Human Nature in Politics Third Edition Two dustmen were lately disputing the difference between bishop and negus. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 329, August 30, 1828 A dustman perambulates the road on the Braintree side, and canned food becomes possible and convenient therefore. What is Coming? Poor was FREDERICK’S lot in life,—A dustman he with a fair young wife,A worthy man with a hard-earned store,A hundred and seventy pounds—or more. More Bab Ballads I would have two arms, if it was me, though instead of hands they'd only got hooks at the end, like our dustman!' Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Thus far, Mr Wegg had let his dusty friend off lightly, having been baulked in that amiable design of frequently dining with him, by the machinations of the sleepless dustman. Our Mutual Friend We distinctly charge the dustmen with throwing what they ought to clear away, into the eyes of the public. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Bocking, less fortunate than its neighbour, has no dustman apparently, and is left with the tin on its hands. What is Coming? Now that you gods are too old for your work, you've made me the miserable drudge of Olympus—groom, valet, postman, butler, commissionaire, maid of all work, parish beadle, and original dustman. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan THE national dustmen, after entertaining one another with a great many noisy little fights among themselves, had dispersed for the present, and Mr. Gradgrind was at home for the vacation. Hard Times I'd give the dustman five shillings, to carry you off in the dust cart.' Our Mutual Friend I am therefore willing to believe that she was in a fit when we found her under the boiler; and that the deficient tea-spoons were attributable to the dustman. David Copperfield It would take years to work the thing and get down to the footing of one water supply and an ambidextrous dustman on the lines of perfect justice and satisfactoriness all round. What is Coming? I lit a pipe and told him to go ahead, warning him that I knew about as much science as the dustman. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies Invention was racked to discover new noises, and it was thought a happy idea when one fellow got into the gallery with a dustman's bell, and rang it furiously. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 I'm not to be trampled under-foot by a dustman any more. Our Mutual Friend The plumber touches his hat for a tip, the man who moves the furniture, the butcher-boy at Christmas, the dustman; these things also, the respect and the tip, at their minimum dimensions. Mankind in the Making It was a gorgeous thing—rather the shape of a dustman's helmet, with a large scarlet bird nestling on one side of it, sheltered by some heavy undergrowth. A Rogue by Compulsion He met a dustman ringing a bell, And he gave him a mortal thrust; For himself, by law, since Adam's flaw, Is contractor for all our dust. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe If a dustman asked his friend for the loan of a shilling, and his friend was either unable or unwilling to accommodate him, the probable answer he would receive was "Walker!" Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 Well, nothing would suit, but the dustman must have a go, and pitch into the cadger. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 05 But the dustman may be said, 'par excellence,' to bear—the bell! Sketches by Seymour — Volume 01 A dead man: your father is a dustman. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Somewhere near sounded the wailing shout of a dustman. In the Year of Jubilee Her father, though formerly a dustman, and now fantastically disclassed, had become extremely popular in the smartest society by a social talent which triumphed over every prejudice and every disadvantage. Pygmalion A cadger sweeping a crossing fell out with a dustman. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 05 I was so busy, I say, with my share in this dustman's work that I did not notice, as I should otherwise have done, the little indications of change in my mother's state. In the Days of the Comet "The best thing the young lady can do," said the dustman, in a hoarse voice, "is to stand something to us all." Sybil, or the Two Nations Thonen asked for his shilling; my mate directed him where the shilling lay; Thonen would see him d——d first before picking up his money like a dustman, and went away. The Eureka Stockade I have to dye my hair already to keep my job as a dustman. Pygmalion It is the dustman's day: he came at eleven o'clock in the morning and carried all the dust away: and grumbled at the paper and the bones, he did. Hard Cash It was like something she had heard—in the interval between the verses—while the sounds echoed in the mind she remembered the cry, hand to mouth, of a London dustman. Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 "You,'ear?" said the dustman, and urging his horse, passed on. The Burning Spear Mean is the word, darling; we are mean, that's what 's the matter with us, dukes and dustmen, the whole human species—as mean as caterpillars. The Island Pharisees Now did you or did you not write a letter to him to say that the most original moralist at present in England, to the best of your knowledge, was Alfred Doolittle, a common dustman. Pygmalion That figure of the dustman has hardly been flung from heaven: that "ultimate purport" is a subject which the Immortal would hardly handle. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh The drum and bugle had not been sounded from the Castle when the milk and dustman's carts began to clatter over the frozen streets. Greyfriars Bobby "Can you tell me," he said to a dustman, "where the market-place is?" The Burning Spear He has made a complete little gallery of dustmen. George Cruikshank Alfred Doolittle is an elderly but vigorous dustman, clad in the costume of his profession, including a hat with a back brim covering his neck and shoulders. Pygmalion As the dustman utters this pathetic cry, and looks at his hand, you burst out laughing. John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character And so, it might very well happen that his old age would be friendless, that he would come to some forlorn end, and be carried away on the dustman's cart. Greyfriars Bobby And jest then—I'm blessed if the dustman didn't come round the back of the 'ouse. Twelve Stories and a Dream From the practical dustmen we pass to those purely poetical. George Cruikshank There's a dustman downstairs, Alfred Doolittle, wants to see you. Pygmalion O yes! and so the dustman says, I believe, with the strongest approval, and so does the marine-store shop in the back street. Great Expectations In truth Mrs. Jellyby required a good deal of attention, the lattice-work up her back having widened considerably since I first knew her and her hair looking like the mane of a dustman's horse. Bleak House But, to make up to them for having to do such nasty work, they were not left black and dirty, as poor chimney-sweeps and dustmen are. The Water-Babies And lastly, we have the dustman in love: the honest fellow having seen a young beauty stepping out of a gin-shop on a Sunday morning, is pressing eagerly his suit. George Cruikshank Twice when the dustman is called in to carry off a cartload of old paper, ashes, and broken bottles, the whole court assembles and pries into the baskets as they come forth. Bleak House |
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