The 635 occurrences of knock up
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The poor women were beginning to knock up, and several fell at times from mere exhaustion.
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It was the first to knock up.
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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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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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But after months of this hard work, the tireless B.-P. began to knock up.
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Thus I shall always knock up against some barrier, and struggle in this wretched darkness, and this mire from which I cannot extricate myself!
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It is no use wandering on, and knocking up the horses.
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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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I'd better run round and knock up Gunter's.
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After an elaborate search of his coat and trousers pockets to locate a five-pound note, Smyth was forced to allow Selwyn to pay for the refreshment, promising to knock him up before six next morning and repay him.
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They shall be sent to the capital, but first we must put them in an inclosure while we knock up some kind of a cage."
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I'll go and knock up the park keeper."
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It would be far easier, I think, to knock up the old boat here; then, with whatsoever else we might find in this God-forsaken wilderness, construct some sort of raft to upbear our company, and so drift down with the stream.
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A few hours sufficed to knock up a shanty, and it was surprising in how short a time they were able to surround themselves with many of the comforts of life.
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He at once remounted his horse, Mike climbed up on to his seat, and they drove off, and, knocking up the people at some large stables, left the carriage and horses there, telling the proprietors to send to the Baron Pointdexter to know his wishes regarding it.
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It shall be in church, because I know you wouldn't feel married if it wasn't, but it must be in a church where nobody we're likely to meet ever goes; and the parson must be one we won't stand a chance of knocking up against later.
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Then somebody would knock up some kind of box for 'em to be buried in.
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I would have made them throw down their ramshackle cabins, knock up decent huts, and keep them in good order.
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The Kashalla vexed me very much by taking my camel to transport a portion of baggage, his own camel knocking up.
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The blades of the _Nonpareil_ were knocking up water like a moorhen.
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And sure enough, out of the thick weather rolling up away over Bovisand they spied now a Service cutter bearing across close-hauled, leaning under her big tops'l and knocking up the water like ginger-beer with the stress of it.
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It came from the southward, and it was already knocking up a considerable sea, as it had the range of the whole length of the bay.
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Macdonald and his officers rushed along in front of the line, knocking up the men's muskets; and abusing them, in the strongest terms, for their disobedience to orders.
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"By 'n' by, a week or so afterward, a herd o' sheep comes driftin' into this same valley, bein' ekally short for feed, an' the herders knocks up a sort o' corral an' looks to settle down.
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We lay down; luckily it was high roots and we were out of sight; but they had fairly got our range, and the bullets kept knocking up the dirt into one's face and all round.
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If anything happens--if you hear a noise--if a woman screams, come and knock me up right away.
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In other districts, early on New Year's morning, lads run about with sticks or clubs, knock people up, cry out good wishes, and expect to be rewarded with something to eat.
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Besides, the fatigue one feels in one's knees in walking comes from the demons that one knocks up against at every step.
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He was a decorator and beautifier, not unlike the modern painter, but he was to be ready at all times to knock up lockers for the crew, to make boxes and chests for the gunner, and bulkheads, of thin wood, to replace those broken by the seas.
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"But I have no doubt it will be in good marching order by the time it is wanted, as my chauffeur was to rise at four, knock up a mechanic at some shop in the village, and make the new change-speed lever which was broken yesterday.
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He was a good hand at playing the game of "wait," and perhaps in time his chance would come to knock up their hand, and call the deal.
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I overheard Fachinetti, whose room was next mine, tell the landlord to knock him up if anything happened.
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"Isn't Verena everything to you, and aren't you everything to me, and wouldn't an attempt--a successful one--to take Verena away from you knock you up fearfully, and shouldn't I suffer, as you know I suffer, by sympathy?"
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But I could not contrive to find you yesterday until it was so late that I was ashamed to knock them up here, and I thought, therefore, you would excuse this early call, as, as, as, I wished to see you very much indeed.'
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"'Aye, and a bonny neighbour thaa is to be comin' here knocking up sich a row at this toime o' th' noight.'
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Another body corporate would fain some pence and shillings get, By selling fish at Hungerford, and knocking up old Billingsgate: Another takes your linen, when it's dirty, to the suds, sir, And brings it home in carriages with four nice bits of blood, sir.
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There was a projected railroad which would entirely knock up his canal, and even if crushed must be expensively opposed.
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He'll knock up their Charter.
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A fear of completely knocking up, however, induced me to preserve some little method in my madness.
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Then he added: "I fatigue you, I knock you up, with telling you these troubles.
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The girl thought that she heard something knocking up and down in the churn, and splashing about.
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Leaving men to knock up a trading post near the suburb now known as Fort Rouge, La Vérendrye, on September 26, steers his canoes up the shallow Assiniboine far as what is now known as Portage La Prairie, where a trail leads overland to the Saskatchewan and so down to the English traders of Hudson Bay.
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While Bouquet waits he sends back over the trail for hospital nurses to receive the captives, and the army is set knocking up rude barracks of log and thatch in the wilderness.
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Mr. Brown and the Captain soon became familiar--in twenty minutes you would have thought them friends of twenty years:--so,--before the last speculator had invested his last weekly sixpence in a goose-club, and drawn the last adamantine old gander; or the last Christmas-pudding-sweep swept away the chimerical puddings, that ought to have been very rich, and everybody thought everybody else had won; before the last trader, who had sold out, dared to mount a notice, intimating that he had joined an "Association to suppress Christmas-boxes,"--the Browns and De Camps had attained that state denominated "thick"--an appellation that might, with propriety, have been applied to Mr. Brown's brains;--for he had obliged Captain de Camp by discounting a bill, due twelve days after date (Christmas), and had invited him to dine on the morrow, to partake of the poultry, that always came up at Christmas, from Plumpsworth; and was taken out in a visit made by the worthy donor, Great-uncle Clayclod, during the "May-meetings," when he does a dozen shilling exhibitions in a day, and knocks up a fly-horse.
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and Mr. Latimer would look sharp, and knock up the match Mamma spoke of; as then he should be breeched, have pockets, and money:" here the little dear turned to the Captain, saying, "You'll give me a crown, won't you?"
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"If Miss Brooks has gone to bed, you must knock her up."
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Mansana could hardly knock up the whole street to inquire, and was perforce obliged to abandon the pursuit.
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~~215~~~ "Egad," said Bob, "if this be true, he appears to knock up rhymes almost as well as he could bake biscuits" (smothering a laugh.)
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It won't take long to knock up a few coops."
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"He is not strong," said they; "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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The bows shot under the white water below the fall, lifted to the first wave, knocking up foam out of foam, and so dived to the next, quivering like a reed shaken in the hand.
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Suddenly he would stop, stamp with one foot, knock up the hinder brim of his hat, begin to scratch the nape of his neck, wait a moment, then wheel round, look at the first-floor window, and roar out, "Matilda!"
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Also we cannot knock up Mr. and Mrs. Pope without disturbing Miss Gabriel next door."
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"Nor, for that matter, can we knock up Miss Gabriel without disturbing Mr. and Mrs. Pope."
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I had the news from Sam Leggo hisself, as he raced off to knock up Mr. Pope."
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All night long he had been unable to get any rest, any pastime in his distant castle, so at last he had hit upon the idea of knocking up the landlord of the "Break-'em-tear-'em" _csárda_, and picking a quarrel with him at any price.
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"We're pilgrims, all four of us, home from the Holy Land; and we start by knocking up Brother Manby and just perishing for a drink."
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Another hustled me as I brushed past and sent me knocking up against Jack, who, if he hadn't stood steady, would have knocked up against some one else, and so pretty certainly have provoked an assault.
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A few, a very few, of the more sensible ones, tried to knock up a little practice game and prepare themselves for the terrible ordeal.
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"Suppose you invite him to come and have a knock up with the ball," suggested the senior.
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So the school was suddenly broken up, the other houses all packed off, the sickly ones among us--there were only one or two--removed to the infirmary, and the rest of us, under the charge of Jolliffe himself, invited to make the best of a bad job, and enjoy ourselves as well as we could, with the promise that if in three weeks no one else showed signs of knocking up, we should be allowed to go home.
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Then, as the opinion spread and, in process of spreading became announced as a certainty, lanterns were lit, spades and mattocks were routed out, and those who had jewels or money to conceal proceeded to conceal them with frantic haste by burying them either in secluded corners of their gardens or beneath the floors of their cellars, while those who had nothing to conceal busied themselves in hastening through the city by its back ways and byways, knocking up their relatives and acquaintances and frightening them out of their wits by informing them that a hostile army had entered the city, the saints knew how, and coming from the saints knew where, and were encamped in the Grand Plaza.
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As the engineer warmed with his subject he made the superiority of stone over wood so evident that it was finally decided he and Henderson should devote the next day to a search for a suitable quarry; whilst the skipper, with Manners and Nicholls for his assistants, was to essay the task of knocking up a temporary but somewhat more efficient shelter for the party than the tents would afford, pending the completion of the house or "fort," as they seemed inclined to style the proposed structure.
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Hence the little fit of pique, the outcome of which had been a resolve to show these two resourceful men that he, plain, unpretending seamen though he was, knew a thing or two besides how to handle or navigate a ship, and that, even when it came to such a matter as the knocking up of an impromptu house, he was not disposed to give way to anybody.
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"I will go down and rouse him at once, and I may as well knock up Mr Macdougall at the same time to relieve the deck, for it's past eight bells."
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First of all came Mary to sweep the floor--she went down on her knees, and swept up the dust with a small hand-brush, and however carefully she might begin, it was quite, quite certain that she would end by knocking up against the legs of the bed, and giving a jar and shock to the quivering inmate.
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Those who have had the least of rough training at home, but have given their mind more thoroughly to the work, will hold out and hold on pluckily when the big fellows with limbs and muscles like giants give in and knock up.
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"You would knock up in an hour's march, and have to be carried, you know," said the tormentor; "it would never do."
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"Do you think I could knock up one of the stable-men to drive me to the village?
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"That wouldn't knock us up as it has.
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Ice is gone and to-morrow I'm going to pole across and help him knock up a frame, and he'll do the rest hissen."
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Then we shall want plenty of light, strong line and a bit of rope ladder, and it would be wise to let the carpenter knock us up a light, strong set of steps of ten or a dozen foot long, the same as the Alpine gentlemen use.
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Ramon is sure to have a strong party there to help, and in a very short time he would be able to knock up an earthwork and utilise the guns as we get them ashore.
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There's worse messmates at a time like that than a chap as can knock up decent wittles out of nothing; make a good pot of soup out of a flannel-shirt and an old shoe, and roast meat out of them knobs and things like cork-blocks as you find growing on trees.
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I have told the men to try and knock up a breastwork and close up the windows.
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I could knock you up half-a-dozen with crossed bamboos, each on 'em looking like tatter-doolies looking after crows with a gun.
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To keep the candle from tumbling out the first time I knock you up against that stone."
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"Come to knock up an accident of some kind!" said the man, with the grin on his face expanding.
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"Knock up the bottom, and let it fall through."
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"Go and knock him up; he's asleep still."
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You seemed ready to knock up last night, tired out."
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In the excitement of the chase, forgetting that we ran great risk of knocking up our horses, away we started.
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Mike, too, announced to us that he had seen a brown bear at a spot a little further on; so it was at once agreed that we should "knock up the quarters of Mr Bruin."
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There was a risk in remaining, but still it was better to run it, rather than knock up our horses or ourselves.
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"You knock up the skipper's arm, while I seize the other fellow," exclaimed O'Carroll to me, springing forward.
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"You are not strong enough for the work before us; and if you knock up, the object of my expedition will be defeated, for I shall have to nurse you instead of being able to hunt or carry on trade."
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"I am much obliged to Mr Hendricks, but I don't intend to knock up," said Denis, not looking very well pleased at his father's proposal.
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It was their duty to defend her," he shouted out, knocking up their muskets.
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The horses, however, which had only been scantily supplied with water the night before, began to knock up--their ears dropped, their heads hung down, and their respiration became thick and fast.
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The journey would knock up our horses, but as we should have no further need of them, that could not be taken into consideration.
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Our guide frequently exclaimed that we should knock up our steeds, or bring them to the ground.
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The breeze with which they had started had failed them soon afterwards, so the sweeps had been got out, and the boats had towed ahead, till he was fearful of knocking up their crews and unfitting them for the work they had still to perform; and yet, do all they could, he was obliged to dispatch them, under the orders of the several lieutenants, with a pull of some eighteen or twenty miles before them.
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If these had already come a good way that morning they might be tired and soon knock up, but if they were fresh they might ere long overtake the midshipmen.
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The sergeant in command of the party was a cautious man, and, afraid of knocking up the horses, would not move as fast as I in my impatience desired.
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Having no cause to conceal the object of their journey, Loraine explained that he and his companions were bound for Fort Edmonton, and were pushing on as fast as they could travel, without the risk of knocking up their horses.
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At the same time, they knew that they must not run the risk of knocking up their animals, or they would fail in their object of making a quick journey.
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"I won't ask you to accompany me, Loraine," he said to his friend, "for I suspect that Sybil would greatly object to your going away; and as you are less accustomed to the style of life than our men, you would knock up sooner than they would.
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Our steeds, however, at last began to knock up, and we were glad to discover a farm-house among the trees a couple of hundred yards from the road.
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"Give my compliments to King Hodge-podge, and tell him that I'll knock up his quarters before long," sang out one of his messmates.
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Should to-morrow be like this, I propose knocking up D'Arcy.