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The bundle on the cellar floor of the Frochards den stirred again, this time more actively. The crippled knife-grinder Pierre had entered. His mother was again busied with her potations. Under the half-lifted rags showed the tear-stained face of Louise. The heavy fatigue of street mendicancy had wrapped her in deep sleep, from which she woke with a start to her wretched surroundings.
I am like the knife-grinder, who had no story to tell, none at least to be told. We have all, no doubt, got our little stories, interesting enough to ourselves." "But your story, Miss Effingham," he said, "is of such intense interest to me."
The "Hermann and Dorothea" of the latter was the first true poem written in modern hexameters. From Germany, Southey imported that and other classic metres into England, and we should be grateful to him, at least, for having given the model for Canning's "Knife-grinder." The exotic, however, again refused to take root, and for many years after we have no example of English hexameters.
He would occasionally go out with Jacob, and help him in some odd jobs, but never again took to wheeling out the machine himself. He was brighter, however, than in even more prosperous days, and had come to look upon Jacob as his adopted son. It was understood, also, that Deborah would ere long become the wife of the young knife-grinder.
"Scissors to mend! to mend! to mend!" The monotonous calls of London hawkers are a strange mixture of sounds at one moment attractive, at another repelling; they are, perhaps, more like the cry of a bird in distress than anything else. Rhoda looked at her wood-chopper as the knife-grinder came nearer to the house, and as he passed beckoned him, and gave it to him. She made no remark.
"Why, who stands higher?" "Oh, a LOT of people WE never heard of before the shoemaker and horse-doctor and knife-grinder kind, you know clodhoppers from goodness knows where that never handled a sword or fired a shot in their lives but the soldiership was in them, though they never had a chance to show it.
But the name of this complaint sets me thinking. Bronzed skin! What an odd idea! Wonder if it spreads all over one. That would be picturesque and pleasant, now, wouldn't it? To be made a living statue of, nothing to do but strike an attitude. Arm up so like the one in the Garden. John of Bologna's Mercury thus on one foot. Needy knife-grinder in the Tribune at Florence.
The knife-grinder walked into the village, followed by Joey, who rolled the wheel, until they stopped at a cottage, where he was immediately recognised and welcomed. Joey was ordered to put the wheel under a shed, and then followed the tinker into the cottage.
My room mate soon thawed into a stolid sociability, and was quite disposed to be communicative; but his narrative riches about matched those of the knife-grinder, and his military experience of one year only embraced one battle that of Manassas. His ideas of English society were very remarkable. The works of Mr. G. W. M. Reynolds are much favored, it appears, by the class who believe in Mr.
And why is it to come closer to our theme that the round or the whirling have such attraction for us? What is the secret of the fascination of the circle? Why is it that the turning of anything, be it but a barrel-organ or a phrase, holds one as with an hypnotic power? I confess that I can never genuinely pity a knife-grinder, however needy.
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