Crossword-Solution: NIGHTMEN 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The cabs and the crowds were gone, and only the nightmen were there swilling up the dirt of the pavements with their hose-pipes and water.

With a word or two to the nightmen on duty, the porter led the way to a shed near the station, where a number of sacks were heaped in a corner.

Certain it is that the greater number of those who now perambulate the streets as chimney-sweeps on May-day, are in reality disguised gypsies, cinder-sifters, and nightmen.

For this work several nightmen were employed to assist the police; and not only was the garden dug up, but the cesspool and privy were thoroughly emptied and examined.

But oh, since fair science will cruelly fly hence, To smile upon vagrants and gypsies, Since knights of the hammer must handle their grammar, And nightmen account for eclipses, Our handicraft neighbours shall share in our labours If they leave us the whole of the honey, And the sans culotte caitiff shall start for the plate if He puts in no claim for plate-money.