"Knacker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Don Silverio; and he thought, "When the cart-horse is bought by the knacker what matter to him the name of his purchaser or ...
— The Waters of Edera • Louise de la Rame, a.k.a. Ouida
... he would rather call the knacker and have his horses thrown into the carrion pit than lead them back, in that condition, to his stable at Kohlhaasenbrueck. Without bothering himself further about the nags, he left them standing where they were, and, declaring that he should know how ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IV • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
... and left, and left and right, straight and true and hard, Till the Ebenezer Chapel looked more like a knacker's yard. ...
— Songs Of The Road • Arthur Conan Doyle
... bury the unhappy man. The dean was a strict and holy man, for whom the laws of the Church were the first thought. He denied my husband a decent burial, and I had to look on while the dear form of my adored one was carried by the knacker's cart to be hastily buried in a corner of a church-yard. What are the clergy for, if they can not relieve us of such misery as that? What ...
— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai
... was that the mosquitoes determined to come in for a share. These little, nipping, biting creatures preferred settling upon young blood, full of life and activity, existing under artificial circumstances, to the carcase of a dead horse lying in the knacker's yard. To prevent these little stingers drawing the sap of life from the sweet bodies of these pretty, innocent, lovable creatures, the Gipsies acted a very cruel part in dressing their faces over with a brown liquid, called the "tincture of cedar." It is not stated whether ...
— Gipsy Life - being an account of our Gipsies and their children • George Smith
... who, like "his Lordship," have utterly and finally disappeared, and finds himself left alone in a bye-thoroughfare with a "horse," which he cannot get along anyhow, and which he is presently glad to part with to a knacker for thirty shillings. ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 13, 1890 • Various |
