The 635 occurrences of knock up

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However, by dint of beating about a little in the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no mistaking.

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fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear out, prostrate.

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You don't know the value of money, you live hard, you'll knock up one of these days, and be ill and poor; you really ought to think about a nurse."

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The hotels at Skiplake and Henley would be crammed; and we could not go round, knocking up cottagers and householders in the middle of the night, to know if they let apartments!

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I leave the case in his hands; but of course, on any alarming symptom, above all if there should be a sign of rally, do not hesitate to knock me up.

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Clay and his officers answered them instantly by running from one group to another, knocking up the barrels of the rifles and calling hoarsely to the men on the roofs to cease firing, and as they were obeyed the noise of the last few random shots was drowned in tumultuous cheering and shouts of exultation, that, starting in the gardens, were caught up by those in the streets and passed on quickly as a line of flame along the swaying housetops.

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"Sorry to knock you up-nasty case-decent people."

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You were gone to bed, you see, and I did not feel at liberty to knock you up; but I think when you have heard the circumstances, you will do me justice.

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He caught me by the shoulders, knocking up my chin so that he could look down squarely at me.

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If you have brought up a family for years on the proceeds of such jobs as driving a ten-penny nail in here or there, tinkering a hole in a cottage roof, knocking up a shelf in the vicarage kitchen, and mending a panel of fence, to be suddenly confronted with a proposal to engage workmen and undertake "contracts" is shortening to the breath and heating to the blood.

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'Ah!' replied the stranger coolly, 'Slammer-much obliged-polite attention-not ill now, Slammer-but when I am-knock you up.'

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'It was half-past four when I got to Somers Town, and then I was so uncommon lushy, that I couldn't find the place where the latch-key went in, and was obliged to knock up the old 'ooman.

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'They knock me up, at all hours of the night; they take medicine to an extent which I should have conceived impossible; they put on blisters and leeches with a perseverance worthy of a better cause; they make additions to their families, in a manner which is quite awful.

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He adored that girl who had just gone out; he had broken her heart, he knew he had, by his conduct; he would marry her next morning at St. George's, Hanover Square; he'd knock up the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth: he would, by Jove!

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I, for my part, have known a five-pound note to interpose and knock up a half century's attachment between two brethren; and can't but admire, as I think what a fine and durable thing Love is among worldly people.

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What if I don't move aside on purpose, even if I knock up against him?

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As it is, you must be constantly knocking up against things.'

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-- To knock up , to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn out, as with labor; to give out.

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"The horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service."

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- - To knock up .

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Knock up the dear old lady to help; knock her up.

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"You would knock him up at this hour of the night?"

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"'By "empty" you mean,' he said, 'where things don't knock up against you?'

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"You don't knock up against things here, and the air is as good as you want.

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Shall I knock him up?

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Let's knock up the Admiral and be done with it.

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"A little more of this hurrying and vexation," he said, "will knock me up altogether."

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To see him splitting away at that pace, and cutting round the corners, and knocking up again' the posts, and starting on again as if he was made of iron as well as them, and me with the wipe in my pocket, singing out arter him-oh, my eye!'

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The way you've passed these three last days might knock up a Titan.

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The tailor set moving a mechanism that initiated a faint-sounding rhythmic movement of parts in the machine, and in another moment he was knocking up the levers and Graham was released.

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It was the sound of horses' feet knocking up through splashy ground, as if the bottom sucked them.

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As to the gentlemen, they stamp their feet against the ground, every time 'hands four round' begins, go down the middle and up again, with cigars in their mouths, and silk handkerchiefs in their hands, and whirl their partners round, nothing loth, scrambling and falling, and embracing, and knocking up against the other couples, until they are fairly tired out, and can move no longer.

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An unexpected sort of place this to meet in; but one never knows, when one gets into the City, what people one may knock up against.

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When he first started with a party of them on foot upon a long journey, he overheard their observations upon his appearance and powers--"He is not strong," said they; "he is quite slim, and only appears stout because he puts himself into those bags (trowsers): he will soon knock up."

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The distance was little more than six miles, but the road was strange, and I had to keep stopping to inquire my way; hallooing to carters and clodhoppers, and frequently invading the cottages, for there were few abroad that winter's morning; sometimes knocking up the lazy people from their beds, for where so little work was to be done, perhaps so little food and fire to be had, they cared not to curtail their slumbers.

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Now, he must be precious old, you know, and he has not a soul about him, and he is reported to be immensely rich; and whether he is a smuggler, or a receiver, or an unlicensed pawnbroker, or a money-lender-all of which I have thought likely at different times-it might pay you to knock up a sort of knowledge of him.

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On the following day Mr. Weevle, who is a handy good-for-nothing kind of young fellow, borrows a needle and thread of Miss Flite and a hammer of his landlord and goes to work devising apologies for window-curtains, and knocking up apologies for shelves, and hanging up his two teacups, milkpot, and crockery sundries on a pennyworth of little hooks, like a shipwrecked sailor making the best of it.

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"Loudon, I'd meant to knock you up last night, and I hope you won't take it unfriendly that I didn't.

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Some of my companions who had recently joined us, and did not know that I understood a little of their speech, were overheard by me discussing my appearance and powers: "He is not strong; he is quite slim, and only appears stout because he puts himself into those bags (trowsers); he will soon knock up."

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On the sixth, both men and oxen showed symptoms of knocking up.

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Being in so many ways helpful to them, and having, besides, shown from the first that he could knock them up at hard work or traveling, we can not wonder that Livingstone was popular among the Bakwains, though conversions seem to have been of the rarest.

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Any day he could knock you up a britchka such as you could not procure even in Moscow.

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While drifting aimlessly round town with an eye out for some chance acquaintance to have a knock round with, you run against an old chum whom you never dreamt of meeting, or whom you thought to be in some other part of the country--or perhaps you knock up against someone who knows the old chum in question, and he says: "I suppose you know Tom Smith's in Sydney?"

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Dave leaped with tigerish agility, and knocking up the levelled Colt, held Snap as in a vise.

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"I've brought an addition to our family, Mrs. Seagrave," said Ready: "we must allow them to remain in the house until I can knock up a little shelter for them.

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"William," said Ready, "I think, now that we have spread out the tents, we will, if Mr. Seagrave approves, all set to at once and knock up a fowl-house; it won't be more than a day's job, and then the creatures will have a home.

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We say "This is very foolish, but we can't stand this; we'll pretend to be ill, and knock up somebody."

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And the most provoking thing is, that no failures knock them up, or make them hold their hands, or think you, or me, or other sane people in the right.

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He ran the risk of knocking up against Daubrecq, if he went away, or of not being able to get out, if he remained.

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"Well, well," said Lupin, as he went out, greatly excited by his discovery, "I seem doomed, in this confounded adventure, to knock up against disappointments to the finish.

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One night when Beauclerk and Langton had supped at a tavern in London, and sat till about three in the morning, it came into their heads to go and knock up Johnson, and see if they could prevail on him to join them in a ramble.

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'I suppose I may knock you up at a late hour?'

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If I have time I shall knock up a little piece for Montigny-the idea is running in my head."

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I had but time to see that there was a tumult on the bridge, and swords out (the Scots, as I afterwards heard, knocking up the arbalests that the French soldiers levelled at me).

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I wrote to Mr. Henry that I thought he had better let me knock up a little office, where a keeper might sleep, if necessary; that there was some stuff with which I could put up such an office, and that I had an old friend, a Spaniard, who was an honest fellow, and if he might have his bed in the office, would take gratefully whatever his services to the estate proved worth.

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"Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the common lot this morning.

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"I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I have had a very serious accident during the night.

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But it's just the sort of thing a fellow like myself, racketing about in all sorts of queer corners of London, naturally knocks up against."

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Her ears--or was it fancy?--had caught what sounded like a low knocking up there upon her door.

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It seemed so homelike, he said, after three years' knocking up and down in no-man's land.

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If I don't knock up, I shall be able to pay back the advance in another week; and then, with a little more pinching in my daily expenses, I may succeed in saving a shilling or two to get some turf to put over Mary's grave, and perhaps even a few flowers besides to grow round it.

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Why, we might knock up against some murderer any minute without knowing it, mightn't we?"

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"Any of us might knock up against him any minute.

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He dispensed his own medicines, and I offered to go and knock him up.

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"Good heavens, Rea, don't kill him!" exclaimed Jones, knocking up the leveled rifle.

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You must not mind my bein' just a little short wi' you at first, for I'm guyed at by the children, and there's many a one just comes down this lane to knock me up.

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One good thing is that they'll only use local corps, and we can knock up something we'll call a campaign, and let them down easy.

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I used to think that nothing would ever knock me up, but now I feel that I'm almost done for.

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I begged Morley to knock up the mayor, that he might interpose as a magistrate, and in the mean time I hobbled after the squire, whom I saw at a distance walking at a great pace towards the city gate -- in spite of all my efforts, I could not come up till our two combatants had taken their ground, and were priming their pistols.

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But you cannot run out into the street, knock up a clergyman, and get married on the spot, and Mary knew that the moment she was gone his lordship's will would revert to his mother's keeping.

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On this diet she became dreadfully thin, yellow and saffron, and dry as an old bone in a cemetery; for she was of an ardent disposition, and anyone who had had the happiness of knocking up against her, would have drawn fire as from a flint.

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Come ashore and knock up Dollmann; we must denounce him, and get them both aboard; it's now or never.

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If he looks shocked at the suggestion, Dick can knock up a partition.

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General Simpson might have put up with this, though to be sure it did seem 'rather too trifling an affair to call for a dragoon to ride a couple of miles in the dark that he may knock up the Commander of the Army out of the very small allowance of sleep permitted; but what was really more than he could bear was to find 'upon sending in the morning another mounted dragoon to inquire after Captain Jarvis, four miles off, that he never has been bitten at all, but has had a boil, from which he is fast recovering'.

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However, by dint of beating about a little in the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no mistaking.

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The heat of the sun was now excessive, and Masiko, thinking that it was overpowering, proposed to send forward to the ship and get a hammock, in which to carry any one who might knock up.

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There is no machine comes in to take away a man's or woman's power of earning their living, like the spinning-jenny (the old busybody that she is), to knock up all our good old women's livelihood, and send them to their graves before their time.

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One good thing is that they'll only use local corps, and we can knock up something we'll call a campaign, and let them down easy.

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I was afraid Theodora had taken you too far, and the heat would knock you up, and the boy would roar till you were all manner of colours.'

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Now Orme, who was behind me, fired also, knocking up the dust beneath the lioness's belly, but although he had more cartridges in his rifle, which was a repeater, before either he or I could get another chance, it vanished behind a mound.

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"All right, Kid," he says; "now I'll knock you up into the gallery."

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A man knocks up his cabins forsooth, throws his tables and chairs overboard, runs guns into the portholes, and calls le quartier du bord ou existaient ces chambres, Lacedaemon.

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We knock up the sleeping hostlers, change.

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But what most provoked his wonder in this rude cave was a chair I This was not such a seat as a woodman might knock up with an axe, with rough body and a seat of woven splits, but a manufactured chair of commerce, and a chair, too, of an unusual pattern and some elegance.

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My old guv'nor would knock up at once if he went about at night like this."

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However, by dint of beating about a little in the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no mistaking.

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They would have this lady knocking up.

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Then the spectacle was fine; turreted gray walls and towers, and streaming bright flags, and jets of red fire and gushes of white smoke in long rows, all standing out with sharp vividness against the deep leaden background of the sky; and then the whizzing missiles began to knock up the dirt all around us, and I felt no more interest in the scenery.

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He on the left parried Crispin's stroke, then knocking up the knight's blade, he rushed in and seized his wrist, shouting to those behind to follow up.

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He would certainly not tell obscene stories aloud in public or knock up against ladies without apologizing.

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He would certainly not tell obscene stories aloud in public or knock up against ladies without apologizing.

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But what most provoked his wonder in this rude cave was a chair I This was not such a seat as a woodman might knock up with an axe, with rough body and a seat of woven splits, but a manufactured chair of commerce, and a chair, too, of an unusual pattern and some elegance.

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We knock up the sleeping hostlers, change horses, and go on again, dead sleepy, but unable to get a wink.

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We knock up the sleeping hostlers, change horses, and go on again, dead sleepy, but unable to get a wink.

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But what most provoked his wonder in this rude cave was a chair I This was not such a seat as a woodman might knock up with an axe, with rough body and a seat of woven splits, but a manufactured chair of commerce, and a chair, too, of an unusual pattern and some elegance.

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"About Easter," said Miss Dunstable; "that is, if the doctor doesn't knock up on the road."

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They would have this lady knocking up.

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My old guv'nor would knock up at once if he went about at night like this."

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Inspector, do you really think it necessary to disturb the whole house and knock up all my guests?

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