| 单词 | knacker |
| 例句 | It means you’re at the end of your rope and maybe one level above tinkers, knackers and street beggars in general. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It’s worse than going on the dole, it’s worse than going to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, it’s worse than begging on the streets with the tinkers and the knackers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They almost resembled the rendering vats that knackers use for tallow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But the explanation was really very simple.The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In Tarbean the knackers had to come for the stiff bodies of sweet- eaters that overdosed in the Dockside alleys and doorways. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Some of the animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked “Horse Slaughterer,” and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knacker’s. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Having saved their historic building from the knacker's yard in 1993, the Horse Hospital is now gearing up to celebrate 20 years of alternative pop-cultural purveyance. This week's new film events 2013-02-02T05:59:01Z In the first book she rescues her prize horse, Storm, from a knacker's yard. Fiction for older children – reviews 2013-07-27T13:00:00Z Elizabeth Taylor brought Bagnold's novel about 12-year-old Velvet Brown, who saves a horse from a knacker's yard and trains it for the Grand National to vivid life, but the book is every bit as good. Lauren St John's top 10 animal adventures 2011-07-21T09:20:04Z The story follows teenager Casey Blue and how her life changes when she rescues a horse from a knackers yard, paying only a dollar. The One Dollar Horse by Lauren St John - review 2012-07-05T14:00:00Z Which shows do you think are past their sell-by date and should follow House to the knackers' yard? House is axed ? but did it cling to life for too long? 2012-02-09T11:24:12Z Then a twist of fate causes her and her criminal father to rescue a racehorse from the knackers yard and, along with her friend Mrs Smith, start training for the prestigious Badminton horse trials. The One Dollar Horse by Lauren St John - review 2012-07-31T14:00:00Z "If you call somebody a knacker that's really bad, really bad, because the knacker is - to the best of my knowledge - is like a horse in the yard that is like dying," he said. Dermot Kennedy: Singer urged to apologise for racial slur 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Some of Mr Johnson's MPs describe the whole thing as "incoherent and elitist", with the government's own green policy at home threatening to "knacker us at the election". COP26: Has Boris Johnson got what it takes to get a deal? 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The referendum result is a tremendous kick in the knackers for Britain’s centrist ruling elite. A Peasant Revolt Upends Britain’s Ruling Elite 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Their team are still hot favourites to go through, but have done their level best to knacker things up for themselves. Real Madrid v Roma: Champions League last 16 – live! 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Well, the campaign has certainly gone from a trot to a gallop - and with 60% of the vote, those who were predicting that Jeremy Corbyn will soon be for the knacker's yard are thinking again. Who are Jeremy Corbyn's main allies in the Labour Party? - BBC News 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z "But it's like a classic thing... like if you were sitting at a table and someone took your food, you'd be like: 'Ah, ya knacker'." Dermot Kennedy: Singer urged to apologise for racial slur 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Wander along the canals there and you will see tens of snazzy new apartment buildings and bars, where once there were just knackers yards and abandoned warehouses. Mapping gentrification: The great inversion 2013-09-09T10:15:04Z And when it happens, it's really going to knacker the festive mood. Fifteen-minute meals and breakdancing mice: the gifts of Christmas future 2012-12-16T20:00:05Z Their team are still hot favourites to go through, but have done their level best to knacker things up for themselves. Real Madrid v Roma: Champions League last 16 – live! 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z They don't want to be there and the fans don't want it because it knackers everyone out for the weekend's important games. The Fiver 2012-11-13T16:44:25Z Two and a half months ago, remember, this was a team heading for the knackers' yard. Roberto Di Matteo finds way to give Roman Abramovich richest payback 2012-05-19T23:58:13Z I gave my order sharp and hard, “Go, ride him to the knacker's yard; He'll fetch two pounds, it may be three; Sell him, and bring the price to me.” The Guards Came Through and Other Poems 2011-11-22T03:00:11.683Z ‘Well, then, let the knacker be called to cut off the head of the horse I rode; it angered me on the way.’ Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z The horse was a knacker’s body, a sorry spectacle, and in that climate he but pottered about waiting for disease to take him. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Four or five hundred horses are carried to the knacker’s yard each week in London. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z It was impossible to bury the carcases in the London districts, and hence they were sent to the knacker's yard, where it was supposed they would be disposed of. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z There were a class of traders known as “ship knackers,” who bought up old unseaworthy vessels and sent them to sea overloaded and over-insured. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z The knacker promised to do as she wished, and when the horse’s head was cut off, he hung it up in the dark gateway. Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z A couple of looseners would no doubt further knacker the Liverpool duo ahead of the big game, and possibly trick them into revealing Shankly's tactics too. The Joy of Six: great Chelsea v Liverpool moments and matches 2011-02-04T10:20:44Z The bell on the neck of the knacker's old steed tolls him to the grave. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z Mr. Paget, after hearing the evidence, ordered that the meat should be immediately destroyed, when the inspector took the van with its contents to a knacker's yard to see the order carried into effect. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z Ah! it’s pretty well knacker’s cart and Jack Straw’s castle with me. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z When this came to the ear of the real Princess, she promised the knacker a piece of gold if he would do her a slight service. Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z But the wide berth has probably only hastened the unfortunate animal's exit to the knacker's yard. Megamind won't, Monsters can't, Secretariat keels over: it's Harry again 2010-12-07T11:35:00Z No priest leads his funeral train; his body comes to its last resting place in the knacker's cart, on a bier made of four rough deals. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z Under all circumstances, it is advisable to let this dismemberment of dead and fallen cattle he performed at the knacker's yard. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z Just because he was clever with the reins, and could do a’most anything with any old knacker of a ’oss, the guv’nor sets him up the shabbiest of any man as went outer the yard. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z There is a growing perception that, while he is some way from the knacker's yard, he is making uncharacteristic whining noises, the sort detected in a high-performance car that needs an overhaul. Wimbledon 2010: Spitting, Murray and marathons in the show with it all 2010-07-05T06:01:00Z Now all England need to do is engineer a meeting with Ivory Coast in the knockout rounds and they'll be through on penalties after Drogba stamps on Rio Ferdinand's knackers. The Fiver | An Unworkable, Vote-Grabbing Ruse; and Sven Taking Charge Of Ivory Coast | Barry Glendenning and Tom Lutz 2010-03-29T15:41:00Z "Ay, the poor jade," said she, "the knacker put a price upon her, but it reached not to the value of a feed of oats, so I cried quits and kept her." Idonia: A Romance of Old London My first employment was to help the knackers to cut the horses' throats at Montfau�on. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 I have another saying however—'When the horse is taken to the knacker's yard, his shoes are first pulled off.' Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. On inquiry we found the lady was the wife of a celebrated knacker, well skilled in the mysteries of horseflesh and the whip. About London They were spent with age and starvation, and were only fit for the knacker's yard. Black Diamonds Kohlhaas said that he would rather send for the knacker and have the horses knocked on the head, than he would take them in such a condition to his stable at Kohlhaasenbr�ck. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Rodolph, unwilling to betray his emotion, replied in a tone as calm as he could assume, "How long did you go on as an amateur knacker?" The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 "That's all you know about it, Mr. Corporal," cried the witch, gnashing her teeth; "my husband is not a knacker who flays horses, but a headsman who flays men." Pretty Michal I know a man who keeps a knacker’s yard, who lives out of town in a villa of exquisite beauty, and who drives horses which a prince might envy. About London Late that evening some soldiers came with lifting apparatus and took the ponderous dead beast to the nearest knacker's yard. Jena or Sedan? The people were shouting amid peals of laughter, that the horses which had caused the state to totter had come to the knackers. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors But the huntsman said, “My master, bid them bring hither into the courtyard an old mare fit for naught but the knacker.” Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales They knew this mare; they knew that she was a hopeless outlaw and fit only for the knacker’s yard. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana 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. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement They look as if they were on their way to the knacker's yard, and very often as if they must sink beneath the load they are compelled to carry. Home Life in Germany The horse-dealer, after modestly turning to the gentleman who questioned him, and whom he did not know, and touching his hat, went up to the knacker's cart, followed by the train of knights. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors She reaches the knacker's cellar, at the end of the corridor. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles As I have said, the horses are fit for little else than the knacker, and as such are the excuse for most unmeasured cruelties, as the reader will see anon. On the Equator It was located in the body of a miserable cab-horse; one of the sorriest hacks in the East End of London, and practically fit only for the knacker, one would have said. Drolls From Shadowland Better die now, while I am with thee, than fall into the knacker's hands. Rookwood He added, picking his way over the puddle to the chamberlain, who stood dumb with astonishment, that he must get a knacker's boy to perform such an office for him. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Old horses, fit but for the knacker's yard, and burdened till they could barely stand, were being goaded forward through the mud. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance At the end of the procession came two picadores, mounted on two sorry steeds, who looked only fit for the knacker, as indeed they were. On the Equator Having reached Paris, I consigned poor old long Rosinante to his fate—the knackers, and, with my leg of mutton under my arm, walked down the Boulevard. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris "Then" said she, "send for the knacker, that he may carry off the horse I came here upon, and make away with him; he was very troublesome to me on the journey." Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm It is not uncommon to see a dying Cigale, whose wings are still trembling in the dust, drawn and quartered by a gang of knackers. Social Life in the Insect World There must be a few dirty jobs, such as knackers' men, and also text-revisers: are the philologists to carry out tasks of this nature? We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 When a man dies he goes to the ground, as a slaughtered ox to the butcher's stall, or a dead horse to the knacker's. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster When the body is exhausted it is sent to the knacker's, as though it belonged to a worn-out horse. Out To Win The Story of America in France Up the passage was a knacker's yard, a shop for the dyeing of felt hats, and a few cottages. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically No, Sir, the People's Pegasus cannot, must not be ruthlessly consigned to the knackers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 As I stand there pulling at that same refractory cow, up comes a Poorman from over at Rind, one of those they call knackers. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 That from you, neighbor! to whose vacant lot Each rhyming literary knacker scourges His cart-compelling Pegasus to trot, As folly, fame or famine smartly urges? Black Beetles in Amber Evian-les-Bains, the once gay gambling resort of the cosmopolitan, has become the knacker's shop for French civilians exhausted by their German servitude. Out To Win The Story of America in France I felt forced to follow, and soon found myself outside a knacker's yard. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 27, 1890 Well, they're more in his line very likely; that means, in his own chosen words, He's more fit for a hammytoor knacker than for that great boast of our land, A true British Sportsman! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 30, 1890 The Poorman was there, too, with all his following; but they had theirs by themselves, as you might know, seeing that they were of the knacker kind. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 The animals were standing there on unsteady legs, with heads bowed down to the ground, making no attempt to eat the hay which the knacker had placed before them. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The docks looked like one vast knacker's yard of broken-down obsolete ships and wretched old paraphernalia—unfortunately a characteristic of other establishments nearer home than Toulon. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography The knacker was out, but he waited for him, and it was dinner-time when he had finished bargaining over the price of the skin. The Forged Coupon It was a Beauceron mare, old and thin, and one fit for the knacker, which was dragging a very heavy cart. Les Misérables When it was discovered that the knacker and tanner would give only a very few shillings for Prince's carcase because of his decrepitude, Durbeyfield rose to the occasion. Tess of the d'Urbervilles At these words the Chamberlain, with a hasty step that made the plume of his helmet tremble, strode up to the knacker and threw him a purse full of money. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes And for the knacker's yard—that's not my destined bed: No donkey ever yet saw himself there lying dead. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 It was nearly below zero when evening came on; his horse which he had treated without mercy, hoping soon to sell it to the knacker's yard, refused to move a step. The Forged Coupon There exist there immense numbers of unknown beings, among whom swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Rap�e to the knacker of Montfaucon. Les Misérables Won't any one go another pound for a beast fit only for the knacker's yard? The Amateur Gentleman The knacker replied that he had been ordered to go with the black horses to Dresden and was to receive the money for them in the house of the Tronkas. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The horses used are only fit for the knacker's yard; they are contracted for at about six pounds each; on this occasion thirteen or fourteen were killed. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. First of all he went to the knacker, Sanin, who lived in a village near. The Forged Coupon I have described the beef as tasting not unlike what one imagines a knacker's establishment to produce, and since that time I have found but scant improvement. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Now the bull is baited and slain by hired artists, and the horses they mount are the sorriest hacks that ever went to the knacker. Castilian Days The knacker who, with a pail of water in his hand, was busy watering a fat, sturdy horse that was drawing his cart asked—"The blacks?" The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes She knew that money was power, that a man might begin life as a pot-boy or a greengrocer, a knacker or a dust contractor, and climb to the topmost pinnacles, were he only rich enough. Phantom Fortune, a Novel Was he then to be the first to go, with the thought that the knacker would be called in on the following day. Doctor Pascal "There, you lying old beldame!" said the Baron; "now take him away to the knacker's." Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers His mind was one mad whirl; rage, shame, disappointed passion, all boiled in it like bones in a knacker's cauldron. Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch It was highly improbable that the horses, which were now being cared for by the knacker of Dresden, would ever be restored to the condition they were in when they left the stables at Kohlhaasenbrück. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Then he came to a pit by which stood a knacker who was cutting up a horse. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm The colt that seems to break its heart at the cut of a whip, will hobble at last to the knacker unmoved by a shower of blows. Pearl-Maiden But under summer's frank sunlight Egypt was as disheartening a spectacle as a racked old horse, ribs and hip bones outthrust, waiting for the knacker's offices. When Egypt Went Broke Because he was up one time in a knacker's yard. Ulysses Amid uninterrupted laughter they were calling to one another that the horses, on account of which the whole state was tottering, already belonged to the knacker! The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes "What dost thou say, thou ill-tempered knave?" and the knacker gave him such a box on the ear, that he could not see out of his eyes. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Go barter to the knacker's yard The steed that has outlived its time! Songs of Action They take such a liking to this fare that, in two or three weeks, the floor of the cage is a knacker's yard strewn with heads and empty thoraces, with torn-off wings and disjointed legs. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects I would not risk such a horse as mine to be sold, ill-treated, tossed from owner to owner, sent in his old age to a knacker's yard, or killed in a skirmish by a cannon-shot. Under Two Flags In the mean time the Chamberlain, Sir Kunz, in spite of the protests of several friends who had joined him, had stood his ground among the people, opposite the knacker of Döbeln. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The others, the real knackers, wait for the meat to go bad; they are informed by the strength of the effluvia. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography An execution was an habitual incident of the public highways, like the braising-pan of the baker or the slaughter-house of the knacker. Notre-Dame De Paris Your French or Spanish friend contrasts its glorious and exciting death in the ring with the cold-blooded brutality of the knacker’s yard. Three Men on the Bummel The glittering throngs spreading over the plains gazed at him in the sheer stupor of amazement; they saw that the famous English hero was dead-beat as any used-up knacker. Under Two Flags He was therefore condemned to be tortured with red-hot pincers by knacker's men, to be drawn and quartered, and his body to be burned between the wheel and the gallows. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Note also the blood-red eyes, with the hard look of the knacker in them. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography If there was any intention in Thorpe Ambrose of sending a worn-out horse to the knacker's, that horse was sure to be found waiting his doom in a field on this side of the town. Armadale Kohlhaas said that 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 Kohlhaasenbrück. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The fretful children were crying in their cradles; the horse destined for the knacker dozed forlorn in the field of his imprisonment; the cats waited stealthily in corners for the coming night. Armadale |
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