The 635 occurrences of knock up

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For instance, it is clearly not easy to knock up a political party on the question as to whether haymaking in such and such a country-side shall begin this week or next, when all men agree that it must at latest begin the week after next, and when any man can go down into the fields himself and see whether the seeds are ripe enough for the cutting."

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Frenzied policemen hurled themselves into the midst of the disorganized militia, knocking up the ends of their muskets, begging the men to hold their fire.

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Now, it's force as well as pace that tells over a bit of plow; a critter that would win the Derby on the flat would knock up over the first spin over the clods; and that King's legs are too light for my fancy, 'andsome as 'tis ondeniable he looks--for a little 'un, as one may say."

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I think the best posting-house at this end of the town is Tempett's-we must knock them up at once.

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I was thinkin' we might manage to knock up some sort o' swap.

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"It's odd that these failures knock you up still.

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For some days thereafter no one may sit on that chair, move it, or knock up against it; for to do so would pain the injured pig or sheep and hinder the cure.

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I doubted the possibility of the loaded camels ascending the steep slope, which had severely tried our mules, and I felt sure that liani's old camel would either knock up or tumble down with his load, should he attempt the ascent.

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If there was any access at all to the island, it was very evident it would be on its northern or eastern side; and now that we were alone, to keep on knocking up through a hundred miles or so of ice in a thick fog, in our fragile schooner, would have been out of the question.

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My principal reason for coming to Alten was to buy some salt provisions and Lapland dresses; but dolls and junk were scarcely a sufficient pretext for knocking up a quiet family at three o'clock in the morning.

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"Too long a journey," he said, "it would knock him up.

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If you want to beat the enemy, you must knock up the revenue.

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Her heavy body, broken down with long years of toil and the beatings of her husband, moved about noiselessly and inclined to one side, as if she were in constant fear of knocking up against something.

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Your flight will knock you up against the belfry tower and break your wings," said the Little Russian in admonition.

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He burst like a cannon-shot into the magistrate's office, knocking up against the methodical clerk in the rudest of ways, without even asking his pardon.

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Balzac dragged him off; and, with noses in the air and absorbed gaze, the two men promenaded along the Rue Saint-Honore and a number of other streets, knocking up against the people they met and provoking a good deal of profane language from these latter, who regarded them as a couple of imbeciles.

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It won't take long to knock up a few coops."

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As he says himself, he knocks up against lots of shady characters in his nomadic existence.

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Ought we to knock them up?

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Next she discovered that rain was pattering on the zinc roof, and that the violent concussions she felt beneath her must be due to the horns of goats knocking up against the boards of her bedroom.

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It was about eleven o'clock at night when they arrived at Senlis, which was the place at which they proposed to lodge, and where they were obliged to knock up the people of the inn, before they could have their supper prepared.

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Noah stood on, without apprehension; for the water had been smooth ever since we entered the first opening, the wind not having rake enough to knock up a swell.

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Spent a little time this night in knocking up nails for my hat and cloaks in my chamber.

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Spent a little time this night in knocking up nails for my hat and cloaks in my chamber.

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But in the morning doing of it, and knocking up a nail I did bruise my left thumb so as broke a great deal of my flesh off, that it hung by a little.

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But in the morning doing of it, and knocking up a nail I did bruise my left thumb so as broke a great deal of my flesh off, that it hung by a little.

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My wife and I lay long, with mighty content; and so rose, and she spent the whole day making herself clean, after four or five weeks being in continued dirt; and I knocking up nails, and making little settlements in my house, till noon, and then eat a bit of meat in the kitchen, I all alone.

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Spent a little time this night in knocking up nails for my hat and cloaks in my chamber.

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But in the morning doing of it, and knocking up a nail I did bruise my left thumb so as broke a great deal of my flesh off, that it hung by a little.

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So, too, Mr. Christopher Heath, the well-known London surgeon, in his advice to house surgeons and other medical officers living in hospitals, says, "the first symptom of \'knocking up,/' is an inability to eat breakfast," and goes on to point out how important a meal it is, and that it should be taken deliberately and without undue haste.

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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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The riot yesterday helped to knock up the strike.'

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All he has to do is to knock up a book of travels, and it'll go like wildfire.'

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Remember the summer morning she was born, running to knock up Mrs Thornton in Denzille street.

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'I fear that it leads to knocking up the horse he rides.'

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'You will fill Evan's head with nonsense till you make him knock up a horse a week, and never go to his natural bed,' said Mrs. Mel, angrily.

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'I fear that it leads to knocking up the horse he rides.'

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'You will fill Evan's head with nonsense till you make him knock up a horse a week, and never go to his natural bed,' said Mrs. Mel, angrily.

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'I fear that it leads to knocking up the horse he rides.'

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'You will fill Evan's head with nonsense till you make him knock up a horse a week, and never go to his natural bed,' said Mrs. Mel, angrily.

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It's eleven o'clock, but we'll find some people up; if not, we'll knock them up."

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I am going to drop some of these trees; get two or three choppers from the village and knock up a log-house like the one I camped in when I was a boy."

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We knock up against all sorts of unintelligible and inexplicable things, injustice, disease, pain, evil, of which we cannot divine the meaning or the use.

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The lubras also promised to be more painstaking, reserving only the right to rest if they should "knock up longa work."

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She undoubtedly did her best, and, showing signs of friendship, was invaluable in "rounding up" the other lubras when they showed signs of "knocking up."

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Jimmy, the water-carrier and general director of the woodheap gossip, explained that they had gone off with the camp lubras for a day's recreation; "Him knock up longa all about work," he said, with an apologetic smile.

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"Me all day knock up longa horse," he explained striding comfortably along beside us.

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"Missus knock up?" he asked, and the Maluka nodding, Sambo's question was forgotten until the next mid-day.

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Our new acquaintance had scores of friends in common with us, it seemed; indeed, our circles so largely coincided, that I wondered we had never happened till then to knock up against one another.

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We were strolling along Piccadilly towards Charles's club one afternoon-he is a prominent member of the Croesus, in Pall Mall-when, near Burlington House, whom should we happen to knock up against but Sir Adolphus Cordery, the famous mineralogist, and leading spirit of the Royal Society!

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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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This gale will soon knock up the sea, and with the cross swell from the Atlantic it will be as much as we can do to carry through it."

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It is silly to let these things really affect one, only that it now seems rather to knock me up.

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It is silly to let these things really affect one, only that it now seems rather to knock me up.

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I have travelled with horses in almost every part of Australia, but I know that after three days and three nights without water horses would certainly knock up, die, or become utterly useless, and it would be impossible to make them continue travelling.

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It was past midday when I had gone twenty miles, when, entering sandhill country, I was afraid he would knock up altogether.

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Here Gibson, who was always behind, called out and said his horse was going to die, or knock up, which are synonymous terms in this region.

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From this plain we again crossed alternate sand hills and flats, the former covered with spinifex, the latter being quite denuded of all vegetation; but one of the horses at last knocking up, I was obliged to halt in this gloomy region, at the only puddle of rain water we had seen since leaving the grassy plain.

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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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"Says he doesn't want to acquire the taste, and he would knock up with half a day."

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"Says he doesn't want to acquire the taste, and he would knock up with half a day."

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"Well, I fell behind, and presently was knocking up the good woman again, for I said to myself, 'These dogs will not surely come to this house a second time, and a night in the cold woods is not to my liking.'

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That tomb had resounded with uproar ever since Silvere had been running about it, bestriding broomsticks, knocking up against the doors, and shouting and crying.

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He sent Dick Povey to knock up Critchlow's, if the shop should be closed, and obtain a drug.

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HORSES BEGIN TO KNOCK UP--COMPELLED TO FOLLOW ROUND THE BEACH--TIMOR PONY UNABLE TO PROCEED--GLOOMY PROSPECTS--OVERSEER BEGINS TO DESPOND--TWO MORE HORSES LEFT BEHIND--FRAGMENTS OF WRECKS--WATER ALL CONSUMED--COLLECT DEW--CHANGE IN CHARACTER OF COUNTRY--DIG A WELL--PROCURE WATER--NATIVE AND FAMILY VISIT US--OVERSEER GOES BACK FOR BAGGAGE--DISASTROUS TERMINATION OF HIS JOURNEY--SITUATION AND PROSPECTS OF THE PARTY CHAPTER XVIII.

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HORSES BEGIN TO KNOCK UP--COMPELLED TO FOLLOW ROUND THE BEACH--TINOR PONY UNABLE TO PROCEED--GLOOMY PROSPECTS--OVERSEER BEGINS TO DESPOND--TWO MORE HORSES LEFT BEHIND--FRAGMENTS OF WRECKS--WATER ALL CONSUMED--COLLECT DEW--CHANGE IN CHARACTER OF COUNTRY--DIG A WELL--PROCURE WATER--NATIVE AND FAMILY VISIT US--OVERSEER GOES BACK FOR BAGGAGE--DISASTROUS TERMINATION OF HIS JOURNEY--SITUATION AND PROSPECTS OF THE PARTY.

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I had just come upon the four-mile descent which would knock up the horse which for ordinary work was sound.

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And I have witnessed with great delight the combination of the keenest head and best heart, with physical strength and activity which quite knock up men younger by forty years.

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If you, my reader, are desirous of discovering a book which shall entirely knock up your previous views upon all possible subjects, read this Essay Towards the Interpretation of Nature.

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Off goes the rogue, and leaves me in despair, Tied to the altar, with the knife in air: When, by rare chance, the plaintiff in the suit Knocks up against us: "Whither now, you brute?"

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"What should knock me up?

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For example, Mrs. Wesley could hardly be expected to lend herself with any grace at all to the proposal he made one sultry June evening to "knock her up" a mint-julep, "the most refreshing beverage on earth, madam, in hot weather, I can assure you."

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I, for my part, jumped into the water, knocking up the pikes of two negroes, who looked as if they were going to spit me, with my gun, and hurriedly caught a man--with a civilian's hat on his head, a sash over his shoulder, and a big sword in his hand, who seemed to me to be the leader of the band--round the waist.

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How I escaped I know not, for the balls whistled all around me, knocking up the fire, and even piercing my clothing, yet I was not so much as scratched.

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He began to walk up and down, and his hands and feet were constantly knocking up against child's toys, books and feminine belongings; he called Justine and told her to clear away all this "litter."

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It'll take half a day to knock up any sort of coffin; and he must have died at midnight.

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If she does not knock up I shall be pleasantly surprised.

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I shall try to stand an hour or two of the Academy dinner, and hope it won't knock me up.

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They knock me up for a week afterwards.

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Sooner or later, he felt sure, he'd knock up against the mysterious stranger somewhere.

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And that involved the probability of knocking up against the mysterious stranger's beautiful daughter.

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He hated going up there, for he hardly knew how he could see much of Eustace without running some risk of knocking up accidentally against Michael Trevennack; and there was nothing on earth that sensitive young squire dreaded so much as an unexpected meeting with the man he had so deeply, though no doubt so unintentionally and unwittingly, injured.

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Ho, you now, Bill, run and knock them up at the Elmwood Arms, and bring down a gill."

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For my part, I shall give them a very wide berth indeed in future; and there's no reason why Elma should ever knock up against them."

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Hurrying on so through the crowded streets, now walking, now running, now pausing, now panting, knocking up here against a little knot of wayfarers, and delayed again there by an untimely block at some crowded crossing, he turned the corner at last with a beating heart into the narrow pavement of an alley marked up as Knatchbull Street.

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Enter HIERONIMO; he knocks up the curtaine.

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The rest of my toilette must have been equally shocking to the eyes of taste, and I have reason to believe the general effect most hideous; but one great comfort was, no one looked at me, they were all too much absorbed in preparations for a great slaughter, and I only came at all upon sufferance; the unexpressed but prevailing dread, I could plainly see, was that I should knock up and become a bore, necessitating an early return home; but I knew better!

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The engagement, however, had been severe; and the enemy's attack, though many times baffled, had been as often renewed, until, at length, the young general Maximilian, seeing that the affair tended to no apparent termination, that the bloodshed was great, and that the horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service, had brought up the very _elite_ of his reserve, placed himself at their head, and, making a dash expressly at their leader, had the good fortune to cut him down.

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"I'll have to see if I can knock him up," he said to Pep.

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He passed the first scattered dwellings he came to, having no desire to knock up some sleepy peasant and have to combat his inquisitiveness, as well as his annoyance, at being so unceremoniously disturbed.

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"Hold!" cried Ishmael, knocking up the levelled weapon of his too eager son.

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Some of them have already done forty, and it will not do to knock them up the first day."

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"If Blair had been a hard-working man, knocking up against other hard- working men, trying to get food for his belly and clothes for his nakedness, he'd have been ashamed to play such a trick--he'd have been a man.

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Let your men-folk knock up for you, out of rough, unplaned boards, some ottoman frames, as described in Chapter II; stuff the tops with just the same material as the lounge, and cover them with the self-same chintz.

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A few hundred families at most, we are told, escaped; and if it be true that they went intentionally to Japan, it is probable that the expert Wu sailors (none existed elsewhere in China) had already for long known the way thither, or to Quelpaert and Tsushima, which practically means to both Corea and Japan; in fact, if they sailed east from Ningpo, there is no other place to knock up against, even if the special intention were not there.

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