Worker on dizzy heights

Usage examples of steeplejack.

Board of Public Works was responsible: as a single item in the general expenditure the weathercock of the Palace of Legislature had had voted to it a new coat of gilt, and this steeplejack was now engaged in putting it on.

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.

When Steeplejack North was called upon to repair and maintain the highest reaches, pressure suits and breathing apparatuses were the order of the day.

The necromancer and Steeplejack North descended carefully to the level where they had lowered the body of the lindworm.

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.

The cardinal rule of the steeplejack, or water-tank mechanic, was to keep his brain in gear.

The Shadow any more than it would have worried a steeplejack, the task was otherwise easy.

Instead Dragosani respected his boss much as a steeplejack respects the higher rungs of his ladder.

And much like a steeplejack, he knew he could never afford to step back and admire his work.

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.

She and Ed had worked as steeplejacks together before they both moved down from the north in search of work.

I heard men beg for work who had been Egyptologists, botanists, surgeons, gold-miners, professors of Oriental languages, musicians, engineers, physicians, astronomers, anthropologists, chemists, mathematicians, mayors of cities and governors of states, prison warders, cow-punchers, lumberjacks, sailors, oyster pirates, stevedores, riveters, dentists, surgeons, painters, sculptors, plumbers, architects, dope peddlers, abortionists, white slavers, sea divers, steeplejacks, farmers, cloak and suit salesmen, trappers, lighthouse keepers, pimps, aldermen, senators, every bloody thing under the sun, and all of them down and out, begging for work for cigarettes, for carfare, for a chance, Christ Almighty, just another chance!

But I am amazed to find that there are Steeplejacks on the very roofs above the Library.

You’ll know where to hire men with ropes, steeplejacks, that sort of thing?