scissors-grinder

There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, two guardsmen who were flirt - ing with a nurse-girl, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths.

Sole Music 2010

As he was going through the last village, there stood a scissors-grinder with his barrow; as his wheel whirred he sang — -

Household Tales 2003

As he came to the last village he saw a scissors-grinder, with his wheel, working away and singing --

Folk-lore and Legends: German Anonymous

There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, two guardsmen who were flirt - ing with a nurse-girl, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

This second _communiqué_ comes to us direct from Madame Coutant's, where a triumvirate composed of the scissors-grinder, the woman-who-rents-chairs-in-St.

With Those Who Wait Frances Wilson Huard

Noted people in a town, -- as the town-crier, the old fruit-man, the constable, the oyster-seller, the fish-man, the scissors-grinder, etc.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, two guardsmen who were flirt - ing with a nurse-girl, and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with cigars in their mouths.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

The candlestick-maker produces a sonorous peal from two copper candlesticks, the scissors-grinder whistles on his flute ....

Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914

“I have one thing in the world left ” only one; it is my scissors-grinder.

From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910

When he was able to get out again, he came back dragging up the rickety old stairs a scissors-grinder.

From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910