handle-maker

Updated: May 14, 2025

This greyhound of a grinder flung down a lot of dull bluish blades, warm from the forge, upon a condemned grindstone that was lying in the yard; and they tinkled. " me, if I grind cockney blades!" said he. This challenge fired a sympathetic handle-maker. "Grinders are right," said he. "We must be a mean lot and all, to handle his work." "He has been warned enough; but he heeds noane."

Charles Reade - Put Yourself in His Place

In about a year Darius's increasing knowledge of the world enabled him to rise in it. He became a handle-maker in another manufactory, and also he went about with the pride of one who could form the letters of the alphabet with a pen.

Arnold Bennett - Clayhanger