The 635 occurrences of knock up
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A pretty time to be knockin' up people at a respectable establishment.
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Our cavalcade consisted besides of two stout donkeys, which carried the beds and carpet-bags of the whole party, thus enabling us to send the camels a-head: the three men-servants were also mounted upon donkeys, and there were three or four spare ones, in case any of the others should knock up upon the road.
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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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A bellowing caught her ear from one of the enclosures and she saw two bulls standing horn to horn, their heads lowered, and their puffing and snorting breaths knocking up the dust while they pawed the sand back in clouds against their flanks.
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You're playing chess with fate and fate's winning, and you knock up the chess-board and fate has to begin all over again!
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'She, rising from her bed, sat down to supper, and from below there was such a knocking up as bred fear to all that were present.
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This knocking was just under her chair, where it was not possible for any mortal to knock up.'
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They would knock him up in the middle of the night to obtain the means of going on with the game.
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If they had gone two or three miles out, but to plant themselves in a little dull town, always knocking up against the dull little inhabitants!
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He was doing some lightning calculating as to whether he would be able to spring forward under the rifle barrel and knock up the weapon.
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All the little grain that was supplied to the bazaars by the commissariat was sold at the most exorbitant price, yet we were obliged to buy it, and as much as we could get of it too, and lucky we thought ourselves to get any of it, even at this rate, at times, in order to feed our horses and camels, which were beginning to knock up terribly.
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Most of us lost a deal of kit in this Pass, owing to the camels' feet knocking up, from the sharpness of the stones; and the very moment the column was off the ground the rascals would be down and fighting for what was left behind.
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We moved steadily on, the guns from the redoubts blazing at us as fast as they could load them; but they were very inferior workmen, and only two shots struck near us, one knocking up the dust close to us, and bounding over our heads, and the other whizzing close over our leading company; however, they kept their ground till we arrived at the foot of the hills, when our artillery having unshipped one of their guns, and otherwise deranged their redoubts, they exploded their powder, and retired, some leisurely, but most in the greatest disorder.
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However, I was so excited that nothing would do but I must see the whole affair; this, however, was rather foolish, as every now and then they would direct their attention to us, and send in a volley, which would sing over us and knock up the dust and the old wall about us in good style.
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You'd knock up in a week.'
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I therefore proposed that we should endeavour to knock up a cradle.
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Horses knock up.
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Horses knock up.
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HORSES KNOCK UP.
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Close behind each opponent is his second with outstretched sword, ready to knock up the duellists' weapons in case of too dangerous an impetuosity in the onset.
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The rounds consist of three or four blows, and last about twenty seconds each, when the seconds, who have been watching behind their men in the attitude of a wicket-keeper, with their sword-points on the ground, jump in and knock up the duellists' weapons.
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Two or three of his former acquaintances ride over to his bungalow, knock up a rude coffin, mumble a few sentences about "the resurrection and the life," "our dear brother here departed," and "ashes to ashes, dust to dust," bury him out of sight, and set up a decent stone over his grave.
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I'll knock up a series of old-world plays for 'em.
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I'll--' 'Go and knock up a village for 'em by to-night.
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He could see plainly the half-sodden grass of the campus, the budding trees, the red "gym" building, and the crowd knocking up flies.
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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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Part of his journey was performed on foot, in consequence of the draught oxen having become sick: "Some of my companions," he says in his first book, "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 in those bags (trousers); he will soon knock up.'
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Keep open eyes, and believe every man to be a rogue till he prove himself an honest fellow," was the parting advice of his companion, for whom he had already taken rather a strong liking; "and if ever town becomes too hot, come and join Captain Jack; and if ever you should chance to knock up against Lord Claud, tell him that his old master sends him greeting and felicitations, and is watching his career with admiration and delight."
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"We should always be knocking up against trippers in the garden, Archies and Samuels and Thomases and what not.
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For Juliana, with her genius for collision, was always knocking up against them, always getting in their way.
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"I'll go and knock up Rufus," he decided.
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I'll go round and knock him up."
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Should she go and knock up the housekeeper and instal her as chaperon, or take a stand, and insist on going to bed like a reasonable woman?
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Now-a-days dey will knock you up right now, and won't be long 'bout it.
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The way you've passed these last three days might knock up a Titan.
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I'm a boy in a school, with a bag of apples, which, being the only apples on my form, I naturally sell at a penny a-piece, and so look forward to pulling in a considerable quantity of browns, when a boy from another form, with a bigger bag of apples, comes and sells his at three for a penny, which, of course, knocks up my trade.
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"'It struck me that if it were possible to knock up Tregaskis and his boys and the farmhand who slept on the premises, and get this boat launched through the surf, we should reach the wreck almost as soon as the life-boat.
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"Suppose you knock up--" began Janet in a tone of remonstrance.
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You look as though you had been knocking up."
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When he suggested knocking up a dish of bacon and rice, however, the truth had to come out, and he was informed that the rice and bacon were lying in the mud of the Saint-Etienne road.
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"Shall we do any good by knocking up the landlord of the inn?"
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"I guess you'll have to go round and knock up the grandmothers to come to it, then," said she.
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On the evening of the second day, the landlady allowed a second knife at tea, as the knife-of-all-work had begun to knock up under the heavy strain upon its powers; but this supplementary instrument was of the ornamental kind, and, like other ornamental things, broke down at a crisis, which took the form of a piece of crust.
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If they do this punctually and diligently, without knocking up, they will be permitted to draw salaries computed at the rate of about one-third of the emoluments received by a third-rate Queen's Counsel; and if they grow lazy, or are incapacitated by illness, they will be rewarded by a number of personal attacks in the London newspapers.
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If we want help, we'll knock you up," observed Frank.
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Hearing of the motor bike, I thought there might have been a breakdown, if not an accident, so I told Ford to knock up another chap and go down along the road.
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That was enough to knock up any one," answered the doctor.
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CHAPTER V THE THIRD SITTING "Isn't it an extraordinary thing," Julian said, on the following evening, "that if you meet a man once in London you keep knocking up against him day after day?
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Julian impatiently pitied her as one pities a blind man who knocks up against one in the street.
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People were hurrying about from door to door and knocking up the few remaining sleepers.
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"Do not," he says, "show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it; nor complain about it, for malice always aims where weakness can be injured.... Never disclose the source of mortification or of joy, if you wish the one to cease, the other to endure."
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They are much in want of sleep, poor devils, and I do hope Atkinson will allow himself to rest: he looks as though he might knock up.
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If it had been published in three volumes, one cannot imagine the most enthusiastic novel-reader knocking up a friend late at night for volume two or volume three.
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Of course I should like the money and I'm awfully sorry to disoblige Lord Grantchester and Jack, but one has one's limitations, and I don't want to knock up."
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Haward, I propose that on our way to Marot's we knock up Dr. Contesse, and make him free of our company."
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Four clear weeks: an' Boatbuilder Wyatt could knock you up a shell in half that time.
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"I reckon Mitchell can knock up a boat to give fits to anything of Wyatt's; and if 'Bias--if Cap'n Hunken is countin' on Wyatt to help him put the fool on me, it may happen he'll learn better."
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"Keep right along after your noses till they knock up against Mrs. Twist's front gate.
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Like 'tother W.G., who's just back from the Antipodes and, at forty-four, can knock up his sixty-three in sixty-five minutes.
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"Look here, old chap, let's lunch together at the club," he suggested, adding with a laugh, "if I let you go now, heaven knows when I'll be so fortunate as to knock up against you any more."
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Not the least use in knocking up John Randolph of Roanoke.'
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To travel a forbidden road on an automobile, and then to knock up a snoring innkeeper at one in the morning, to ask him where we could find a donkey, seemed to be straining unduly the sense of humour; so after consultation we decided that we should leave Airolo to its slumbers and speed down the Pass into Italy until we ran to earth the object of our quest.
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By the time the men tumbled up, Jacka had his helm up, and the _Van der Werf_, with sheets pinned, was leaning to it and knocking up the unholiest sputter.
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Now, we can all settle down comf'table, while I has Tuny knock up some dinner, a company one I hopes, if Miss Martha and the rest will stay with us."
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More frequently he knocks up the people of the neighbouring house, under the impression that it is his own, but that a new keyhole has been fitted to the door in his absence; and, in the mildest forms of the disease, he drinks up all the water in his bed-room during the night, and has a propensity for retiring to rest in his pea-coat and Bluchers, from the obstinate tenacity of his buttons and straps.
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You'll knock up if you are not careful."
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"Yes, Paul," he replied, "thar wuz shorely a heap uv danger stirrin' 'bout last night, an' thar wuz lots uv chances that some uv it would come knockin' up ag'inst me, but, Paul, I knowed it wuz thar, I knowed it wuz in the woods in front uv us; it wuzn't settin' by my side, talkin' soft things to me, an' sayin' it wuz my friend.
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Towards the end of each day's march the soldiers all begin to look out for firewood, and if at that time you knock up against the enemy, you may see our infantry advancing to the attack with big logs tied to their backs and sticking up over their heads.
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I'll have to hurry on over and knock up a extra sally-lunn for him, I reckon.
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Cold and hungry after the five hours' journey, I did not scruple to knock up the Postmaster.
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"Because at that hour they would be shut, and--since it is evident that his visit was a secret one--he would have had to knock up the lodge-keeper."
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"What the devil," roared a voice from within, "knock up a man this time of night to light your pipe?
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"Well, you wait here a moment, and I'll see if I can't knock up some sort of shelter--I used to be pretty good at that sort of thing."
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He isn't keen to knock up against me."
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But you'll have a tough job if you knock up against _me_."
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A great shout came from the Mexicans when they saw the daring Texans outside, and bullets from the jacals began to knock up grass and dust about them.
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I am going to call for Mrs. Gorman Stanley; and Mrs. Morris asked me to knock her up, and we'll all of us just be at the church in good time."
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I knock up against people at the office, and I know several fellows and girls outside--" "What girls?"
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We contrived, however, to knock them up, and Timothy having seen that our horses were put into the stable, we lay down till the next morning upon a bed which happened to be unoccupied.
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"I fear you are little short of it," he replied; "at all events, you have succeeded in knocking up my marriage with Miss Folliard.
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There certainly was sincerity in that wench's tears, and be hanged to her; for, as you properly said, she was devilish near putting between our families, and knocking up our intimacy.
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Lanigan continued the dance, kept wheeling about to all parts of the room, like an old madcap, cutting, capering, and knocking up his heels against his ham, with a vivacity that was a perfect mystery to his two spectators, as was his whole conduct.
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But about sleepin' in to-night--coorse I wouldn't be knockin' up my father, and disturbin' my poor mother for no rason; so, of coorse, as I said, I'll sleep in the barn; it makes no difference one way or other."
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"Yes; but this arrangement must be kept a secret from Tom, because if she knew of it she would knock up the whole project."
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I say I'm right well plaised that we helped to knock up the match."
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CHAPTER VII He could not at once discern in the darkness who it was that opened the door, and he remained an aloof black shape against the moon-glare, lifting his cap and saying, "I am sorry to knock you up at this hour," so for a minute Marion had the amusing joy of seeing him as he appeared to other people, remote and vigilant and courteous and really more hidalgoesque than the occasion demanded.
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It is not exactly an amble, but a cousin to it, marvellously easy to the rider, whilst it enables the nag to get over a wonderful lot of ground without knocking up.
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An open-mouthed conical basket, like that of the Parisian chiffonnier, but with contents in some respects different, since this contains the traveller and not the shreds of his exploded journal, is fastened upon the back of a bearer by a strap across his forehead and two others over his shoulders; the occupant sits with his legs over the rim of the basket, and his back almost resting against the head of his bearer, who, bending forward under the weight of his load, and grasping a long stick, looks like some decrepit old man--a delusion which vanishes the instant you commence the ascent of a mountain by his side, when his endurance and vigour astonish you, if they do not knock you up.
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"The horse you ride is no miserable beast," retorted the landlord, who had some of the pride of a southron in this particular, and seemed solicitous for the honor of his stud--"you have jaded him by your furious gait, and seem entirely insensible to the fact that our progress for the last half hour, continued much longer, would knock up any animal.
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After much entreaty his Majesty at last prevailed upon the fellow, to knock up a jeweller and shew him the ring, which as soon as he had inspected, he stood amazed, and enquired, with eyes fixed upon the fellow, who he had got in his house?
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No, not very bad: a few assorted bruises and a wrenched thumb; though poor Jonesy on the _Z-3_ had a wave knock him up against the rail and smash in a couple of ribs.
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You can tell them (the tear shells), they said, by the fluttering sound, and they knock up no earth and make very little smoke.
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"I'm sorry to knock you up," he said, trying to reassure her, "but this lady is nearly dead; our boat upset."
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This last is perhaps an over-statement; Mrs. Naylor was in the habit of bearing other people's burdens with excellent fortitude, but she felt justly annoyed that Captain Pat should knock up before they had fairly settled down in their new quarters, and while yet three of the horses were out of sorts after the crossing from England.
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If two of the legs or arms happen to knock up casually against one another, they coalesce at once, just like two drops of water on a window-pane, or two strings of treacle slowly spreading along the surface of a plate.
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He threw stones, knocking up the dust about the old man's feet, and Gable hopped and skipped with the agility of a kid; but after each attack he returned humbly to the heels of the party like a too faithful dog.
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A man rushed past the end of the stacks to knock up Manager Holden.
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"We'll go to the Musée and knock up old Malaumain," declared Théo suddenly.
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"'I will do the utmost, my lord; get the engine to work on the sails--hang butts of water to the stays--pipe the hammocks down, and each man place shot in them--slack the stays, knock up the wedges, and give the masts play--start off the water, Mr. James, and pump the ship.'
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I was rather afraid, you know, that you'd hang about in town all through the summer, and that 'ud be bound to knock you up."