knife grinder

How to use knife grinder in a sentence

• A knife-grinder came along, this morning, and he did appear to be a master hand.

  Pippin; A Wandering Flame | Laura E. Richards

• To resume my story (which is very like that of the knife-grinder).

  Records of a Girlhood | Frances Ann Kemble

• A score of voices hastened to enlighten him, but before it was well done, the eager knife-grinder's voice rose above the rest.

  Trevlyn Hold | Mrs. Henry Wood

• The knife-grinder—though a stranger to the local politics, and totally uninterested in them—had listened with the rest.

  Trevlyn Hold | Mrs. Henry Wood

• Jonitza turned hastily and saw a knife-grinder who, having caught the remark, made a grimace at the boys.

  Our Little Roumanian Cousin | Clara Vostrovsky Winlow