The 1,273 occurrences of knocked up

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The poor man is pretty well knocked up and needs rest.

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She recognised the voice an' knocked up my rifle just as I pulled the trigger.

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Meanwhile we three, being thoroughly knocked up with our day's work, took a good draught of cocoa-nut lemonade, and throwing ourselves on our beds, fell fast asleep.

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It's the jolliest day I've had on the ice for years, though I'm almost knocked up by it.

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Great, therefore, was their dismay when the guides told them that it was impossible to reach the place that night, that the mules were too much knocked up, but that they would get to it early on the following day.

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"It's gloriously knocked up you'll be before long at that rate," said the Captain.

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He was anxious, at the time he procured the pills, to relieve a poor miner who seemed to be knocked up with hard work, but who insisted that he had a complication of ailments; so Ned bought the pills for twenty times their value, and gave a few to the man, advising him, at the same time, to rest and feed well, which he did, and the result was a complete cure.

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"I'd rather you'd go yourself," replied Peterkin; "for, to say truth, I'm pretty well knocked up to-day.

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But we found ourselves at the end of the second week so terribly knocked up that we agreed to devote the whole of the next Sabbath to repose.

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When Tom lay down under the shade of a tree, thoroughly knocked up, the Caffre would bid him farewell and go away; but in a short time he would return and urge him to make another attempt!

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"Stop!" cried a coast-guard-man, "some of the men are too much knocked up to go off again."

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"How long I slept," said Tommy, continuing the narrative, "I am not quite sure; but it must have been a longish time, for it was somewhere in a Tuesday when I lay down, and it was well into a Thursday when I got up, or rather was knocked up by the bow of a thousand-ton ship!

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"Oh, I suppose I'm a little knocked up, that's all.

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All I know is that he's _Mister_ Mellon, and he's bin rather knocked up by--But, bless me, I forgot: I was to say nothing about the--the fire till Dr McTougall had seen you.

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This little fight quite knocked up Hans the Esquimaux; Morton therefore advanced alone, in the hope of being able to get beyond a huge cape that lay before him.

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Bill darted to the engine-shed and knocked up the driver in passing.

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I had walked so far away into the forest after wild-fowl, that I forgot time and distance in the ardour of the pursuit, and only thought of returning when quite knocked up.

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Paul was very sorry to lose them, not being aware how much he was himself knocked up by the hardships he had gone through.

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Likewise the health of Captain Peters, who nursed Mr. Ketchmaid like 'is own son when he got knocked up doing the work of five men as was drowned; likewise the health o' Dick Lee, who helped Mr. Ketchmaid capture a Chinese junk full of pirates and killed the whole seventeen of 'em by--'Ow did you say you killed'em, Ketchmaid?"

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Half as many more had been killed or wounded in smaller skirmishes; and ten or twelve had gone home, or into hospital, completely knocked up with the hard work and exposure.

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Evans's eyes were open; he watched the other, and at last he said huskily: "I say, you know, I'm a bit knocked up."

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As I expected, Said is knocked up and lamed.

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Some few observed I was right, and bullied Mohammed, who now made another lying excuse, that his two camels were knocked up, which was the reason Said didn't ride.

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End of the Sandy Region.--No Birds of Prey in The Sahara.--Progress of the French in the Algerian Oases.--Slave Trade of The Desert supported by European Merchants.--Desolations of Sahara.--System of Living of our People.--Various Tours through Central Africa.--The Desert tenanted by harmless and Domesticated Animals.--Horribly dreary Day's March.--A Fall from my Camel.--Well of Nijberten, and its delicious Water.--Moral Character of the People of our Caravan.--Well of Tăbăbothteen.--Camel knocked up and killed.--Mode of Killing Camels.--Pretty Aspect of The Sahara.--Some of the Ghafalah go on before the rest.--The Plain and Well of Tadoghseen.--Encounter and Adventure with the _quasi_ Bandit Sheik, Ouweek.--Enter the region of the _Jenoun_ or Genii.--Mountain Range of Wareerat.

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A camel knocked up to-day, and unloaded this morning.

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It is, perhaps, for the better, for we are all knocked up.

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The poor slaves knocked up to-day; rested many times on the road, and another very ill.

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It is here they're knocked up, going continually and most patiently to the last moment of their strength, when they expire at once.

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I was extremely knocked up and unwell, and at once determined not to leave Mourzuk until my health should be restored.

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As I turned to surrender, some confusion arose and a few shots were fired, but Tucker and Captain John D. Semmes, being near me, knocked up the ends of the nearest rifles with their swords and saved my life.

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Beards were making their appearance even on the youngest soldiers' chins, numbers of men were being knocked up by the continuous strain and a four days' halt was called at Sheik Jaad, No.

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But Sam saw the movement, knocked up the bully's arm, and the soda went into Nick Pell's ear.

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"At the risk of seeming intrusive, I at once knocked up two Irish gentlemen on the landing above who had been audibly making a night of it while I sat here endeavouring to compose my thoughts to the calmness proper for framing a testamentary disposition.

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Thence ... home, and got thither by 12 o'clock, knocked up my boy, and put myself to bed.

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The latter was turned out before them near Wold Newton, in Yorkshire, and after running rings for sometime, went off for Scarborough, near which place the hounds were so completely knocked up that he beat them in view, for the huntsman could not get them a yard further--a number of riders lost their horses in the cars, and were seen wading up to their necks to catch them again.

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"Wait till I recover my breath," said Alfred, as he reached the door, "or ask Henry, for I'm quite knocked up."

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They carried Alfred to the house, where Mr. and Mrs. Campbell and Mary were waiting at the door in great anxiety; poor Emma was quite knocked up by the time that they arrived, and went into her own room.

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"You weren't the only one to get knocked up.

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This bravado, considerably to that gentleman's discomfiture, was answered at once by a burst of smoke from the Castle, and the next moment a cannon-ball knocked up the earth a few feet from the Captain's charger, and covered Balmawhapple himself with dirt and stones.

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We knocked up the lazy varlets of the hot baths, and with this luxury balanced the loss of sleep.

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We were pretty well knocked up by the time we reached Samatan, having been pulling thirteen hours, the greater part of the time under a burning sun.

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We were much knocked up, and very much torn with the thorns.

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The walk, including a rest, occupied nearly three hours, the latter part uphill, and we reached the village a good deal knocked up from the heat of the sun and the badness of the way.

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One dark, tempestuous night, I was knocked up by the arrival of other visitors.

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I borrowed some mules from the Land Transport Corps--mine were knocked up by yesterday's work--and loading them with good things, started off with my partner and some other friends early on that memorable Sunday morning for Cathcart's Hill.

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The Tartar's two horses were soon knocked up, and the fellow obtained a third at a little village, and so we rolled on until mid-day, when, thoroughly exhausted, we left our clumsy vehicle and carried our hamper beneath the shade of a beautiful cherry-tree, and determined to lunch.

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The tide helped them along, but by its meeting the wind much more sea was knocked up than if both had been going the same way.

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Their bullets (which besides were rarely aimed at us, for they preferred to fire upon our cannoneers) whistled over us, or at worst knocked up a shower of earth and stones.

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I can only account for their not hearing us by the fact that they were completely knocked up with the heat and work of the day, and had no idea there were any more people on the island; and, as the boat was on shore, their prisoners could not escape by themselves; so that in all security they sleep profoundly.

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I was to have been a Director, but my name got no further than ink, and not so far as official notification of the honor, partly owing to my having communicated to the _Mechanic's Magazine_ information privately given to me, which gave premature publicity, and knocked up the plan.

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Then comes the last entry in his diary, 27th April: "Knocked up quite.

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Karl acknowledged that his horse was wellnigh knocked up, and thankfully accepted the burgomaster's invitation, though he was anxious not to delay a moment longer than was necessary before proceeding on his journey.

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You must fire it for me in about ten minutes or so, when the warriors seem to be getting knocked up.

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It was by this time quite dark, another heavy fall of snow had come on, and continued for two hours, so that all hope of seeing them again alive was given up, for it must be remembered that the men remaining by the fire were so thoroughly knocked up that had they gone out to try to save their comrades they would in all probability have lost their own lives.

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Muggins, although pretty well knocked up before morning, held on manfully without a murmur.

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After floundering along for an hour or so, we saw the torches of the stage, and heard the halloo of the driver: hence, without mischance, we reached Macon before daylight; and here one of our company knocked up through cold and over-weariness; a vacant place was thus afforded for the judge of the district-court, in whom we found a well-informed and most intelligent companion.

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When snow on the prairie is frozen with a hard crust on the surface, the light wolf can run easily on the top of it, while the heavy horse breaks through at every stride and is soon knocked up.

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"I feel quite knocked up.

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At this profound witticism there was a general laugh among the men, in the midst of which the laird repeated his invitation to Ivor, saying that he seemed knocked up after his exertions (which was partially true), and adding that surely he was man enough to take a little for his good at such a time, without giving way to it.

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"Here," he cried at last, "they must have knocked up, and are waiting for us to go back.

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I've been knocked up more or less for some weeks past, so they sent me home to be looked after.

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One ran round the corner to the engine-house and "knocked up" the driver in passing.

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The whole party were, however, too much knocked up to make another move during that day, and even Andrew and Foubister, who were most anxious to proceed on their journey, consented to remain till the following morning.

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Nothing could have been better done, and the two smugglers would have been made prisoners, but at the same moment a dozen stout fellows, who had been sleeping round the cavern, and had sprang to their feet at the noise of the falling door, came round them; the muzzles of the pistols were knocked up, Tom's going off and the bullet flattening against the roof of the cavern, and they found their arms pinioned, and instead of capturing others were themselves made captives.

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The men who held him were frequently changed, as if they too were knocked up with their work.

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I was abroad for a couple of years, and a friend I knocked up against in Paris last June bet me a thousand dollars that in spite of all my queer experiences, I wouldn't have the pluck to rough it in the steerage of a big ocean liner.

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One soldier rested his rifle forward, as though bent on taking a shot, but Sergeant Hal, like a flash, knocked up his arm.

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The two men, quite knocked up with excitement and fatigue, had slept as peacefully as if they had been in the most comfortable room in the mansion in Montgomery Street.

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By the arrival of tiffin-time we had drawn far enough down the river to be just meeting the first of the sea knocked up by the strong breeze, and I noticed that already a few of the seats at table that had been occupied at breakfast-time were vacant--among them that of Lady O'Brien--but my left-hand neighbour exhibited a thoroughly healthy appetite--due in part, probably, to her long promenade on deck in the wind and the rain.

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At length--probably about two o'clock in the morning--it breezed up so fiercely, and knocked up such a sea that I dared not run the boat any longer, so, watching my chance, I put the helm down and hove-to on the larboard tack, with the boat's head to the northward, and anxiously awaited the coming of daylight.

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Of course there was no more sleep for me that night, for when at length the squall had blown itself out it left behind it a strong northerly breeze that very soon knocked up a sea, heavy enough to make me ardently wish for daylight and the opportunity to shorten sail.

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You might want a hut knocked up, or your guns mended.

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We sailed from Sierra Leone on the following day, as Ryan had resolved we should; but, as usually happens when matters are hurried, we met with an endless succession of petty delays at the last moment that detained us at anchor until nearly nightfall, and occasioned us a vast amount of trotting about in the broiling sun to put some life into the dilatory people who were keeping us waiting; the consequence of which was that when at last we lifted the anchor and stood out of the bay with the very last of the sea-breeze, to run into a calm when we had attained an offing of some two miles, I felt altogether too tired and knocked up to eat or drink; while, as for Ryan, he was in a state of high fever once more.

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It put Stanley in a perfect fever; but David persuaded him not to go out and attempt to shoot the creature, as he was completely knocked up by the exertion of the previous days.

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The captain was so knocked up that he had to go home invalided, as did my father, who was never able again to go to sea.

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We had purchased some bedding at the Fort, and Sam and Malcolm soon knocked up some rough furniture, which served our purpose.

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He took occasion several times, however, to tell Peter, in a grave way, that, whenever he felt tired, he would be glad to carry his basket for him, and himself too, for the matter of that, if he should get quite knocked up.

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He is not likely to grudge being knocked up at night when a gratuity is to be the result.

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As Harry and I were pretty well knocked up with our exertions of the previous day, we remained encamped while natives were employed in bringing in the tusks.

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This made the two lads eager to push on; but "too much haste is bad speed," and they almost knocked up their horse before half the day's journey was over.

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'I suppose Dane would be soon out of quarantine now.—But he is not quite well himself, Arthur tells me; knocked up by watching and incessant exertions, I suppose.'

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How odd I should have knocked up against Daisy's grandchild, and should find her out by the likeness.

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It had been an awful moment for old Jasper Harman when, a week ago, he had suddenly knocked up against that solitary, foreign-looking man.

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So she had to be knocked up, for she was lying down.

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"And as the stable boy told me, they had taken the wagon horses to ride, and those horses were then fairly knocked up with fatigue, while ours are now quite fresh, we may very soon overtake them," put in Munson, artfully.

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Two teams of mules were knocked up, and more will follow if this goes on.

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"Anyhow, I hope you'll not feel too knocked up when you arrive in camp, and that we'll meet again."

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And older persons, not yet altogether regenerate, are apt to have a weakness for a man who was willing to be knocked up at three in the morning by some young roysterers, and turn out with them for a "frisk" about the streets and taverns and down the river in a boat.

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With this view, passing through the town, I put up at a small but decent _gasthof_ which stood upon a patch of rising ground close upon the margin of the stream; and having first seen to the comfort of my horse, which was well-nigh knocked up with the day's journey, and next attended to my own, I retired to rest at an early hour, without descending to the common room and joining in the beery orgies of the evening.

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"Wait till I recover my breath," said Alfred, as he reached the door, "or ask Henry, for I'm quite knocked up."

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They carried Alfred to the house, where Mr and Mrs Campbell and Mary were waiting at the door in great anxiety; poor Emma was quite knocked up by the time that they arrived, and went into her own room.

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"And now, you fellow, Harpour," said Henderson, re-entering the dormitory; "as you've knocked up Evson, and half killed Eden, _I'll_ tell Somers.

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Instead of a four hours' walk, Shatzlar proved to be rather more than six hours' distant; and the way being mountainous and rugged, we came in thoroughly knocked up.

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"I don't see where it is to end," said Charles; "the Principal expressly said that my prospects at the University were knocked up.

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Next morning, before daybreak, March Marston attempted to set out for the Mountain Fort with Dick; but he was so thoroughly knocked up before the end of the first mile that he had to call a halt, and admit that he could not think of going further.

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It's o' no use tryin'; I'd just have knocked up on the way, which would have been awkward for Dick, you know, as well as for me.

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When he arrived at Castelvetrano he was so knocked up by the journey and the change of air that he was obliged to go to bed, where he remained till it was time for him to get up and return to Chiasso, and this means that he was in bed for more than a fortnight, because his holiday was extended to twenty days in consideration of his illness.

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We had purchased some bedding at the Fort, and Sam and Malcolm soon knocked up some rough furniture, which served our purpose.

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The captain was so knocked up that he had to go home invalided, as did my father, who was never able again to go to sea.

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As soon as one man was knocked up, another sprang into his place.

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