| Elevator operators, typesetters, and airplane navigators have followed milkmaids and lamplighters into oblivion. |
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| These days they want to know about the history of people who were not kings or queens, but weavers and miners, felling hands and lamplighters. |
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| We don't have lamplighters any more, but we have huge industries built around street lights and electricity supply. |
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| By the 1700s cities were sporadically lit with whale oil lamps, kept alive by lamplighters. |
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| Among the expected — lamplighters, milkmen, typists — was one that fulfils my wish: Lectores de tabaquerías, or cigar-factory readers. |
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| I have not been altogether honest in what I have told you about the lamplighters. |
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| The performers on stage are mediators, lamplighters and initiators. |
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| But occasionally — despite a huge staff that included pages and scribes, masseurs and tasters, lamplighters and pearl-setters — something slipped through the cracks. |
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| He created the cryptic jargon of tradecraft — lamplighters, scalphunters, babysitters, joes, mothers, burnboxes — some of which got taken up by actual spies. |
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| The 1BC electrified posts, installed in the 1910s, paid subtle homage to the gas lamps that preceded them: they were designed with ladder rests, of the kind lamplighters would use on their morning and evening rounds. |
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