| 单词 | steeplejack |
| 例句 | Every roofer, tiler, and steeplejack had a dæmon who could fly, or one so small she could come up in a pocket. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In the 1930s the model was sold to the London steeplejack Sidney Larkins, whose company used to clean the column. Nelson's Column model up for auction 2010-10-18T12:14:00Z Tom Jones is a steeplejack and director of the old buildings conservation specialist firm, Jones and Fraser. Historic buildings: Threatened by skills shortage 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z In the end, a steeplejack had to "rescue each one in turn at great expense". The secret tradition of night climbing 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z I got a steeplejack to put a ladder up the side of the building and he pulled it down to half-mast. Malcolm Allison: A man who lived life large to the last 2010-10-17T07:59:00Z After all, it isn't any worse than being a steel worker or steeplejack. Disowned The steeplejack experiences no giddiness or fear in scaling a church spire because the thought of danger is immediately replaced by the knowledge of his own clear head and sure foot. The Practice of Autosuggestion He climbed skyscrapers and flagpoles and smokestacks and was a famous steeplejack. Rootabaga Stories My boots lasted me to within twenty feet of the parapet, and then, just as I had kicked my toes bare, a steeplejack appeared at the little doorway with a ladder. The Adventures of Harry Revel Such persons were also called steeplejacks, and they were paid liberally for their exploits, as they deserved to be. Chatterbox, 1905. Before the weight of the moral law, he bowed his head and gave up the ghost of the dead steeplejack. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties It appears that only prose-men are the culpable ones when they hear the harping of invisible harps from Ibsen steeplejacks, or recognise the colour of Zarathustra's thoughts. Promenades of an Impressionist The other was to Jimmy the Flea, the climber, the steeplejack. Rootabaga Stories Only a monkey or a "steeplejack" could get up there, and on a day like this, with a half gale still blowing, a steeplejack might be pardoned for declining the task. The High School Captain of the Team Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard In the summer of 1921 the steeplejacks employed to test the lightning conductor found that the iron cramps had rusted to such an extent as to split the stonework. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter 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. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties And he got a couple of these professional steeplejacks to examine it. The Talleyrand Maxim "Pish!" answered another, "it is steeplejack Jan, who can hang on a wall like a fly." Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch "You'll have to get a steeplejack for the job, Mr. Macey," the chums heard one man advise the real estate operator. The High School Captain of the Team Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard He saw that the steeplejack had now reached the point where his work was waiting for him, work that required nerve and courage. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties 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. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties 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. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties It was not the right and dignified way for a royal accident to happen: falling down-stairs suggested the same failing as that to which steeplejacks were prone. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties |
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