The 635 occurrences of knock up

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The young woman ran to the Port aux Vins, gliding over the slippery pavement, and knocking up against the passers-by, in her hurry to reach her destination.

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(KNOCKS UP AGAINST MEADOWS, WHO EXIT).

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the bonny--(A PASSENGER KNOCKS UP AGAINST THE BLIND VOCALIST ON THE OTHER SIDE).

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Your night's rest is an important thing a fellow who does not get a good sleep at night soon knocks up, and cannot get through a day's work like the one who sleeps in comfort.

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John is much afraid that the long-list of engagements will bring on his rheumatism and knock him up for the real Business in Montreal.

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Blackburn's had the three last men on the list of the first eleven, Silver, Kennedy, and Challis, and at least nine of its representatives had the reputation of being able to knock up a useful twenty or thirty at any time.

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I should have thought Kay would have been all right when he saw you knocking up centuries, and getting into the final, and all that sort of thing."

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If Fenn could have known at this point that his adventures were only beginning, that what had taken place already was but as the overture to a drama, it is possible that he would have thrown up the sponge for good and all, entered Kay's by way of the front door--after knocking up the entire household--and remarked, in answer to his house-master's excited questions, "Enough!

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I certainly find several here for which I can perceive no more precedent in the well of "English undefiled," than for some of ours; for instance, this being "knocked up," which is variously inflected, as, for example, in the form of a participial adjective, as a "knocking up" affair; in the form of a noun, as when they say "such a person has got quite a knocking up," and so on.

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As they approached the door, Woodburn, who had kept his post, unhurt, on one side of the steps, sprang forward to dispute their passage, and, after knocking up the swords and bayonets that were aimed at his breast, laid about him so lustily with his cudgel, that the whole party were, for some moments, kept at bay.

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

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Once start a row like this, and all the beaks turn into regular detectives and go ferreting about all over the place, and it's ten to one they knock up against something one doesn't want them to know about.'

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However, as I had a small party of the company, I continued to get a number of little jobs done towards making it passably comfortable for the men, and for my own part I got Hector Munro, who was a joiner by trade, to knock up a kind of "cabinet" (as the Canadians called it) in one corner of the house for myself.

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An' he dies, an' I have ter pay a man ter bury him (an' knock up a sort o' fence round the grave arterwards ter keep the stock out), an' send the buggy agen for a parson, an'--Well, what's a man ter do?

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She always walked with little, quick, silent steps, never made a noise, never knocking up against anything; and seemed to communicate to surrounding objects the faculty of not making any sound.

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She hurried along as though she were on some important business, knocking up against people with packages, crossing the streets without paying attention to the approaching vehicles, and being sworn at by the drivers, stumbling on the curb of the sidewalk, and tearing along straight ahead in utter despair.

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The travellers now retraced their steps, and beyond the delays caused by some of the bullocks knocking up, their return journey to Fort Bourke was unmarked by anything of interest.

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The horses too, began to knock up, and one after another they were left behind dead or dying.

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After we got some distance down the creek, it was decided to cross and strike to the southward, but we must have picked a bad place, for one of the camels got stuck in a quicksand at the end of a waterhole, and we could not get him out, although we worked hard for nearly twenty-four hours; so, as there was nothing else left for it, we shot him, cut off as much meat as we could carry, and, after drying it, started on again; but our load was so much heavier now that we had to travel very slowly, and the other camel was beginning to knock up.

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Nikhil wants to go by made- up maxims, in __Swadeshi__ as in everything else; so he knocks up against human nature at every turn, and then falls to abusing it.

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After twelve days' work of a sort to knock up an elephant they were as fresh as daisies.

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It was past her usual hour of going to bed before she made up the kitchen fire to be in readiness, lest her brother should knock her up at any hour during the night.

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"It is a hard life, I know; that tearin' about night after night, and sittin' up till ever so much o'clock; and then all these races, you know, comin' one after another--it's enough to knock up any fellow.

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"We can knock up shelves for your books in no time," said my uncle, rubbing his hands.

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We were long in knocking up the hostlers: no carriage had arrived just before us; no carriage had passed the place since noon.

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I had had time, with the help of a carpenter, to knock up cabins for Vivian, Guy Bolding, and myself in the hold; for thinking we could not too soon lay aside the pretensions of Europe,--"de-fine-gentlemanize" ourselves, as Trevanion recommended,--we had engaged steerage passage, to the great humoring of our finances.

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"We can knock up shelves for your books in no time," said my uncle, rubbing his hands.

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We were long in knocking up the hostlers: no carriage had arrived just before us; no carriage had passed the place since noon.

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I had had time, with the help of a carpenter, to knock up cabins for Vivian, Guy Bolding, and myself in the hold; for thinking we could not too soon lay aside the pretensions of Europe,-"de-fine-gentlemanize" ourselves, as Trevanion recommended,-we had engaged steerage passage, to the great humoring of our finances.

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Men without stirrups look fine, ride bold, tire soon: men without discretion cut dash, but knock up all of a crack.

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Men without stirrups look fine, ride bold, tire soon: men without discretion cut dash, but knock up all of a crack.

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Let me in; knock up somebody, break open the larder.

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Let me in; knock up somebody, break open the larder.

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What if some opposing newspaper take up the cudgels in his behalf, and assert that the victim of all Pandora's complaints, whom we send tottering to the grave, passes one half the day in knocking up a 'distinguished company' at a shooting-party, and the other half in outdoing the same 'distinguished company' after dinner?

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He learned that he, too, could eat with a good appetite while bullets were knocking up dust only twenty yards away.

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We dropped down on our bellies in the shallow trench, bullets knocking up the ground and snapping in the air.

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There was one gun in particular which used to get our goats, it had the exact range of our "elephant" dugout entrance, and every evening, about the time rations were being brought up, its bullets would knock up the dust on the road; more than one Tommy went West or to Blighty by running into them.

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Shaking with fury, Christophe got out and asked for another train, battering the sleepy officials with questions, and only knocking up against indifference.

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One face would remind him of a face he had known and the lips would say--(as he was quite sure they would)--exactly the same things as he had heard from the original: beings similar to each other would pass through similar phases, knock up against the same obstacles, suffer from them in exactly the same way.

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[He accidentally knocks up against a little table and nearly upsets the candelabra] I can pay for everything!

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You must sleep, or you will knock up; let me give you a sleeping draught.'

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If we don't restrain him he will be knocking up all the doctors of the town before the morning; he waked all the dogs in my street.

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We're always knocking up against them, both friends and foes."

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at the very moment I pulled the trigger, out steps a fellow from behind my shoulder, knocks up my musket, and disappears like a flash of lightning--Heaven only knows where, for I never laid eyes on him again!"

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"He saved your life by knocking up the musket that was pointed at your head!"

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I could knock up a shack like this with tar paper, I could.

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Was it doing nothing to make them exhibit themselves thus, and to knock up for ever all the humbug of party in the county?"

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It was not till she got into the little room, after knocking up against the furniture, that she was able to light a small lamp.

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THE DOG (_yelling, jumping about, knocking up against everything, unbearable_) My little god!...

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As I had to ride a distance of sixty miles, I calculated the time I should be on the road, and as I was to go thither and back on the same horse, and it was very hot weather, I somewhat slackened my pace, that I might not knock up the poor animal.

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"Yes, and carry you back when you knock up," said that gentleman, returning the missile, without success, Norah having retreated behind a vase of roses.

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The army would knock up the best and youngest beast in the colony, in one campaign in the woots; and it can do no more with the oldest and worst.

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That moment I sent Kekwick for my own horse (he being the swiftest), and ordered him to saddle, mount, pursue, overtake, and bring Smith back; but during the time he was preparing, I had time to think the matter over, and decided upon not following him, as it would only knock up my horse and detain me three or four days.

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I cannot understand the cause of the horses knocking up so much; every one of them has fallen off the last week.

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The dreadfully dry state of the country since leaving the sand hills--it being completely parched up--leaving me no hope of getting water until I reached the gap in Hanson range or the Freeling Springs, and it being quite impossible for us to drag him on there, I was compelled to abandon him, as it would only knock up the other horses to drive him on.

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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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Right and left, everywhere, were dead bodies with swollen stomachs floating about, knocking up against the wooden piles.

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'Now, mamma,' he said, when he went out, 'take notice, you are not to knock up your god-daughter with gossip,' and he particularly desired me to keep close to my own quarters, and spare you my fine company.

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In unfamiliar company, where it was necessary to maintain a flow of talk on the subjects in presence, half an hour would knock me up, with a combined pressure of physical lassitude and entire mental incapacity.

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Then I had to drive round by the farm, and knock up Mrs Herbert and Styles.

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"Channing, you have light heels; run on, and knock up Ketch."

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"I don't want to be disagreeable, but I can't think of anything that gives you the right to come and knock me up like this in the middle of the night."

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Now I'm knocking up a shop and a furnace, and all the rest of the togs wanted, for Price, in my back yard at Knatchett.

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Earl Warwick, make your moan, The lively H----k and you May knock up whores alone.

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Men around him were firing, and the bullets in return were knocking up the leaves about him, but Dick's finger did not yet press the trigger.

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In these delicate times, when two or three days of watch and watch knock up a set of young men, one looks back with pride to a passage like this, when fourteen men and boys--four of the latter--brought a good sized ship across the ocean, reefing in the watch, weathering many a gale, and thinking nothing of it.

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Well, Osborne, I must come and knock you up one of these mornings.

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See that Injun knock up a leveled rifle."

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After spending nearly the whole of the day, and knocking up the horses, we found the tracks of the party nearly where we had left them yesterday morning, and, following along them for nine miles, found where they had bivouacked last night; and, it being now two hours after dark, we camped also, having between us for supper an opossum, which Tommy had luckily caught during the day.

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She made up her mind to go to the Lewises, knock up Carrie, and demand an account of the property which she had confided to her on the previous day.

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"But knocking up like that just for blisters?"

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"Reckon we'd better go and knock up Blandford Keith and get a bed," suggested the Boy regretfully, looking round for the man who had a cinch up on Glory Hallelujah, and wouldn't tell you how to get there.

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You can feel your way; keep to the edge of the steps; don't knock up against--" "I'll take damned good care not to!" muttered Neddy, with a little shiver.

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Then perhaps, if the night is still young, they will knock up the household of a singer and demand a song or two from her.

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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 [trousers]; he will soon knock up."

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"Because if we do not go before the snow begins to melt we shall have to do the journey in carriages over bad roads, which is sure to knock you up.

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As it was Saturday, and our horses were showing unmistakable signs of knocking up, we halted for the rest of the day.

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But I couldn't knock you up at two in the morning.

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

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

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knock off: - completion 729 V. knock on the head: - killing 361 V. knock one's head against: - impulse 276 V. knock to atoms: - destruction 162 V. knock under: - submission 725 V. - penitence 950 V. knock up: - fatigue 688 V. knock: - snap 406 V. - impulse 276 V. - impulse 276 N. - rashness 863 V. knock-down blow: - destruction 162 N. knocked on the head: - failure 732 Adj.

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Mrs. W. was taken so last night, that Mary was obliged at midnight to knock up Mrs. Waller to come and sit up with her.

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But since the world has begun to talk of the copper mines of Lake Superior, settlers flock into the place; carpenters are busy in knocking up houses with all haste on the government lands, and large warehouses have been built upon piles driven into the shallows of the St. Mary.

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The courageous thought struck them that they would knock up the old philosopher.

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"We will knock up a little shed for the boat above the portage this summer, then when next winter comes we can lay her up there, instead of having to bring her down here," he said to Miles, as the two discussed the probability of being able to get the boat up the portage within a week.

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By-and-by I heard a knock up in Stephen's room,--I suppose he wanted something,--but Lurindy didn't hear it, and I didn't so much want to go, so I sat still and began to count out loud the stitches to my narrowings.

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I'll jest fetch out them old boards out of the wood-shed, and knock up a little sty right off, daown by the end o' the shed, and you ken keep your swill that I've hed before, and it'll come handy."

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A nature that could feel so tenderly for its inferiors in the scale could not be deaf to the tiny voices of humanity, when they reached her solitude; and she thanked Israel for the pig so heartily that the old man's face brightened still more, and his voice softened from its cracked harshness, as he said, clicking up and down the latch of the back-door,-- "Well, I'm sure you're as welcome as you are obleeged, and I'll knock up that 'ere pen right off; he sha'n't pester ye any,--that's a fact."

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Straight on swept Alcatraz until he saw the glitter of the hunter's eyes beneath the wide brim of his sombrero--then he braced his legs, knocking up a small shower of sand and rocks, swerved to the left, and bolted for the river bank.

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

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Toward one that night, his footman ran to knock me up with the news that Peters was very ill.

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The limbers were the last things to turn up, being in the rear of the battalion, but when they did the cooks soon pulled the necessary things out and proceeded to knock up a meal.

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It would seem our adventurers knew their errand well; for, instead of knocking up any of the drowsy publicans to demand admission, they held their way steadily to the water's side; Wilder leading, Fid coming next, and Scipio, in conformity to all usage, bringing up the rear, in his ordinary, quiet, submissive manner.

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I'm goin' on to knock them up at Bimbalong."

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I often seen 'em knockin' up flies with it, but I ain't never been close to one.

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"Put up your sword, my lord," says Calvert, contemptuously, knocking up the silver blade with his own, which he had drawn.

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I was indisposed; and to knock me up entirely, we had to walk over the moving sand of the point of Barbary.

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"At Genorminston, the women coming up to join a fray give a sort of war-whoop; they will jump up in the air, and as their feet, a little apart, touch the ground, they knock up the dust and sand with the fighting-pole, etc., held between their legs, very like one's early reminiscences in the picture-books of a witch riding a broom-stick."

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