Because, like the needy knife-grinder, I have no story to tell.

A blind man's dog, or the companion of a knife-grinder, is comparatively elevated.

It had been poked in between a Syrian bakery and a knife-grinder's lockup booth.

It was in daily use in every spinning wheel, and in every turner's and knife-grinder's foot-lathe.

I am like the knife-grinder, who had no story to tell,-noneat least to be told.

Dravot was deep in conversation with the knife-grinder.

Needy knife-grinder in the Tribune at Florence.

Dravot stopped to talk with a knife-grinder.

But the knife-grinder never knew.

I should have to reply like the needy knife-grinder, "Object, God bless you, sir, we've none to show."

Crosbie had not been treated as was the needy knife-grinder, and had ground to stand upon while he urged his request.

It is the old story of the needy knife-grinder who, if left to himself, would have no grievance of which to complain.

He was a traveling knife-grinder, he explained, and had received the letter from a man on the road whose horse had gone lame.

Well, it won't take you long to listen to it, for, Miss Clifford, like Canning's needy knife-grinder, I have really none to tell.

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.

Meanwhile Jack has entered the same Clubb through the back, in the guise of a knife-grinder who has come to whet the cooks' cutlery.