knife grinder

To dream of a knife grinder, foretells unwarrantable liberties will be taken with your possessions.

Then there was a knife grinder whod set up to sharpen the blades of good steel skates.

This spring, the knife grinder will ring the bell in his truck, and I will rush out with knives and scissors.

In Rome he had gotten the nickname Arrotino, the Knife Grinder.

The tools cover artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, saddlers, knife grinders, shoemakers and of course farmers.

Mr. Del Re, 41, a former commodities trader, is one of the last mobile knife grinders in New York.

A knife grinder (Burgess Meredith) is suspected, but Radek keeps taunting the police until they realize that he is the killer.

Her best well known works include the Knife Grinders, Housetops, and the Boat Builders, all scenes of India created in around 1920-1930.

Born in 1866, Jensen was the son of a knife grinder in the town of Raadvad just to the north of Copenhagen.

Last month he returned, only to discover, this being New York, that rival knife grinders had moved into what he regards as his territory: the Upper West Side.

Book binders, broom makers, buckle makers, calico printers, glovers, knife grinders and pin makers all worked an extra hour to 9 p.m.

One day, Mr. Del Re's father-in-law, Giacomo Iammatteo, who is a knife grinder, had a suggestion.

She married Artemio Cozzini, a knife grinder, in 1935 and the pair settled in Artemio's home town, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Kazimir Malevich developed the style, which can be seen in his The Knife Grinder (signed 1912, painted 1913), though he later abandoned it for Suprematism.

I may have gathered my following from "rag pickers, knife grinders and tinkers," but at least they're decently dressed; you, on the other hand, look like one of Veronica's tramps.

Mr. Pallotta grew up in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Maspeth, Queens, in a milieu where knife grinders were anything but unfamiliar.

"Knife grinder", 1895-1900, Oil on canvas, 180x111 cm, ("Le rémouleur", Museums of Auxerre, inv.:1901.1)

Photographs show proud mothers and soldiers, a knife grinder plying his trade, a model posing against a lumpy old Czech Skoda car, a couple embracing on the street near a large poster of Lenin.

Occasionally a careless man holding the blade to the stone would burr over the edge but, judging by the way this one was done, the man might well have been an itinerant knife grinder before being swept up by a pressgang.

Both his grandfathers immigrated in the 1920's from a scissors-producing village in the south-central Italian region of Abruzzi, and both made their living as knife grinders, roving Manhattan and Brooklyn with their equipment on pushcarts.

He discovers that this has led the kids at the youth club to fight over the available drugs, causing an increase in knife crime and more business for the village knife grinder (who is actually the youth club leader's wife in disguise.)

In this way, the work evokes the imagery of resistance to the French threat from Napoleon, earlier examined by Goya in his 1808 painting The Knife Grinder, and may refer to the peoples' participation in drafting the Constitution.

ALONG these now mean and shabby streets the founders conducted the business of government and planned for the future, with the cries of fishmongers and milkmaids and knife grinders coming through their open windows, and cows and hogs foraging through lower Broadway.

Then you will notice the sweep attending to the trumpet-shaped Venetian chimneys from the outside, a puppet show raised high above the spectators, friars arriving by boat at the landing stage, knife grinders, street-sellers protected by unwieldy umbrellas, men urinating in quiet corners or stretched out in the sun.

In spirit, this marvelously raucous lane, which extends from Canal Street north to Houston, seems to have changed little since the turn of the century, when Yiddish was spoken everywhere and the Lower East Side was home to pushcarts, penny knife grinders and "glimmer men" who fitted eyeglass lenses by the process of elimination.