Grinder

"The Grinder," in double allusion to the song of _Terry the Grinder_, and to some harsh under-notes of their friend's voice.]

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824

You see that this fellow whom they call the Grinder was certainly the man I struck.

The Vicar of Bullhampton Anthony Trollope 1848

"She is the mother of the man they call the Grinder?"

The Vicar of Bullhampton Anthony Trollope 1848

From there we walked to a restaurant called the Grinder, where Lachlan had last eaten twenty years ago.

Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

From there we walked to a restaurant called the Grinder, where Lachlan had last eaten twenty years ago.

Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

As to this, however, the police were indifferent, as they believed that they would be able to prove at the trial, from other sources, that the mother of the man called the Grinder had certainly received tidings of the farmer's wealth.

The Vicar of Bullhampton Anthony Trollope 1848

Neither the mother nor the younger woman knew where was to be found, at the present moment, that hero of adventure who was called the Grinder, and all the police of Wiltshire began to fear that they were about to be outwitted.

The Vicar of Bullhampton Anthony Trollope 1848

There was a small empty house up a little alley in the town, to which there was a back door opening on a vacant space in the town known as Grinder's Green.

Ralph the Heir Anthony Trollope 1848

Mr. Fenwick therefore was all but convinced that Jack the Grinder was the gentleman with whom he had had the encounter, and that the grinder's back had withstood that swinging blow from the life-preserver.

The Vicar of Bullhampton Anthony Trollope 1848

Another factor that could potentially play against The Grinder is the speed of the final table.

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