Steeple Jack

I spoke unreasonably as if, being a millionaire, I could throw away five shillings; or, being a perfect steeple-jack, stumbled over a footstool on purpose. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Make all fast, and return here in time for the steeple-jack. ❋ Maurice Henry Hewlett (N/A)

"Are you a steeple-jack?" asked Fibsy, his eyes sparkling; "can you paint spires and things?" ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)

Third: John Mallathorpe had probably slipped the copy into the _History of Barford_ which was in his private office when he went out to speak to the steeple-jack. ❋ Unknown (1899)

The steeple-jack was just coming down, and his mate was waiting for him at the bottom. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Such accidents, however, and, I should think, such interventions, are exceedingly rare, and as a rule the peasants venture freely into places which in England no one but a sailor or a steeple-jack would attempt. ❋ Unknown (1881)

I had never the heart to look for any length of time -- the thought that I must make the descent in person some dark night robbing me of breath; and, indeed, on anybody not a seaman or a steeple-jack, the mere sight of the Devil's Elbow wrought like an emetic. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

in a town like this, of simple people, who have a steeple-jack placing danger signs by the church while he is gilding the solid - pointed star, which on a steeple ❋ Vthoward (2010)