Unfortunately for Squire Wenzel, and still more so for honest Kohlhaas, this man was theknacker from Doebbeln.
Kohlhaas, who allowed no gesture to show what was passing in his mind, declared that he was quite ready to follow the baron to the market, and inspect the horses, which the knacker had brought to the city.
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 Kohlhaasenbrueck.
Indeed, for the want of all other attendance, the police was obliged to take them in hand, and towards night called upon the knacker of Dresden to keep them in the yard before the town till further directions.
Produce the marriage certificate which can show that my daughter-in-law, Milly, was ever married to the knacker of Zeb!
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.
Well, then, let the knackerbe called to cut off the head of the horse I rode; it angered me on the way.
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.
Then he in turn vendeth me to the knacker who cutteth my throat and flayeth off my hide and plucketh out my tail, which he selleth to the sieve maker; and he melteth down my fat for tallow candles.
Then he came to a pit by which stood a knacker who was cutting up a horse.
With these words the knacker took his departure, leaving his hearers disgusted, indignant, and astonished at what they had heard.
The knacker has spoken a good word for us to mother, and when nothing could change her he said, "There is a black cock sitting on the perch: maybe a red one will crow over you if you don't do as I say.
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.
While he was digging the grave with a spade which was very blunt, the knacker appeared and took off the skin; and the carcass was then thrown into the hole and covered up.
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.
One of the guardsmen held out a full ox-horn of wine, and the Knacker seized it and forced it into Constans's hand.
Mechanically, he leaped to the terrace below, and from thence ran on to the landing-stage just as Kurt, the Knacker hobbled around the corner of the house at the head of a squad of sailors from the Black Swan.
Just because he was clever with the reins, and could do a'most anything with any old knackerof a 'oss, the guv'nor sets him up the shabbiest of any man as went outer the yard.
Kohlhaas, whose expression gave no hint of what was going on in his mind, said that he was ready to follow the Baron to the market-place and inspect the black horses which the knacker had brought to the city.
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.
As the bad luck of Sir Wenzel and still more of honest Kohlhaas would have it, however, the man happened to be the knackerfrom Döbeln.
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 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 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.
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.
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 above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knacker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
