The 635 occurrences of knock up
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The 'trot' tends always to get shorter, for the regulation pace is already as much as Light Cavalry can manage on the Drill ground; and the gallop, too, falls generally behind the prescribed rate, the reason being, in my opinion, that as a rule the distances demanded are too great, and that we do not drill with sufficient frequency in full marching order, partly to save wear and tear of the kit, but also because with lighter weights we can undertake in the same time more exercises, covering a greater area, than would otherwise be possible without knocking up the horses.
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"That'll knock you up yet," was the comforting diagnosis, with a wise shake of the head.
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The duellists are placed opposite each other, and the seconds, who also have swords in their hands, stand one on each side, ready to interfere and knock up the combatant's sword.
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Get them to knock up a litter, and bring a couple of stout fellows back to help us carry her.
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For the last six months, not a week has passed without my meeting some suspicious figure over there or knocking up against men walking about in smocks that were hardly enough to conceal their uniform....
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The horse had ran away with him, and flung him off the cart into a ditch; he had tumbled off the cart, and walked into a ditch; he had tried to knock people up to assist him in trying to find what had become of the missing mails!
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Why, he works quite steadily now for hours without knocking up.
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Besides you don't wish to knock up old Buck.
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We'll have the stove lighted, and we'll knock up some shelves and we'll have a piano in, and the sofa from my room, _nicht wahr?_ Oh, we'll make a place of it, I can tell you."
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Although it was not many leagues from Ciudad Rodrigo to where our cantonments were to be, yet that small march seemed to be almost going to knock me up, for my leg did not seem altogether strong enough to bear much marching, both of the slug shots having entered the sinew under the knee, and while we were engaged in this march it was kept constantly on the move.
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However, for the first, I'll tell Matthew to knock you up."
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a gentleman is hurt": the chairmen put up their pipes, and help the gentleman over the railings, and carry him, ghastly and bleeding, to the bagnio in Long Acre, where they knock up the surgeon-a pretty tall gentleman-but that wound under the short ribs has done for him.
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We shall have to knock up old Mullins at the lodge."
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But here he was again disappointed, for the two Horses still kept their Courage, till they came between _Longford_ and _Colnbrook_, where he plainly perceived 'em begin to droop or _knock up_, and found he had then a sure Game on't.
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But drop or, as you say in England, knock up calling me 'sir.'
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"If you want a scrap," said Gorman, "really want it, you know, you ought to knock up Phillips on your way back to your boat.
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(Wrestling) Defn: A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.
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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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The entrance to Port Albany and Somerset is narrow; and the strong tide and wind combined to knock up an unpleasant popple.
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The war didn't knock me up only----" "I will not believe it!"
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The man who's been knocking up chemists all night is the man to whom breakfast is due; get your own and then mine, and after that you can tell me how you got on."
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Well, sir, I lay a-thinking that if--mind, I only says if, sir--if Pete Warboys was to die, how would it be, if master didn't say no, and I was to knock him up a barrel for a kennel to live in our yard?"
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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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It isn't necessary to knock up against every one you come to; and people don't like it."
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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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How often am I to tell you that this is not a regular game, but just a sort of knock up, you know?"
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"In which you get all the knocking up," Helen said indignantly.
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As it is, you must be constantly knocking up against things.'
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Or sometimes they choose spots of waste land near a high road, where the drays halt to get water for the night, and there the squatters knock up what is called "a hut."
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But a second shot from the tree, slanting downward, struck the surface of the sand filling we had used between our walls; it hit a few inches directly in front of my face, knocking up a shower of grit that, for the moment, completely blinded me.
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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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"I suppose I may knock you up at a late hour?"