The 1,273 occurrences of knocked up

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The faithful Billy had to be sacrificed in the Stony Desert, as he was so reduced and knocked up that there seemed little chance of his reaching the other side; and another day was taken to cut up and jerk his flesh.

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You are quite knocked up with all this.

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MY DEAR BROTHER, I was so knocked up on Saturday, that I found it impossible to write to you; though there is one circumstance, which, if I had been acquainted with, would have prevailed over all fatigue--I mean that of Captain Nugent's having voted against us upon the second division.

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I have nothing else to tell you; and am, indeed, so completely knocked up by this last week's fagging, as hardly to be able to write at all.

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"Why, what is the meaning of this, Chips?" demanded Leslie, as he emerged from the companion-way, at seven bells, clad in bathing-drawers only, on his way forward to take his matutinal douche under the head pump; "is this swell the forerunner of a new gale, or has it been knocked up by something that we have just missed?"

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"Well, Chips, it is a pity," said Leslie, soothingly and sympathetically; "if you had but told me how completely you were knocked up, I would have taken your watch for you, although I am pretty well knocked up myself.

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I knocked up the muzzles of the guns of those near me, and as the rest fired, I hit all the guns I could.

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The legend "Barbox Brothers" in large white letters on two black surfaces, was very soon afterwards trundling on a truck through a silent street, and, when the owner of the legend had shivered on the pavement half an hour, what time the porter's knocks at the Inn Door knocked up the whole town first, and the Inn last, he groped his way into the close air of a shut-up house, and so groped between the sheets of a shut-up bed that seemed to have been expressly refrigerated for him when last made.

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"Poor lad!" muttered he to himself; "he be quite knocked up.

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At any rate I am knocked up, and I want a rest."

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So they came along here at once and knocked up the housekeeper.

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Plummer and I knocked up the bank manager, who lives over the premises at the Upper Holloway branch.

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At any rate, he knocked up the manager and told him that he had a sudden need for money that very night; could he have some?

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"I fully expected to find you knocked up and ill after all the exertion and fatigue of yesterday; but I am glad to see that you are so much stronger than I gave you credit for.

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Maciek shoved the hilt of his sword just under the spot where the bayonet is set upon the gun barrel, and knocked up the weapon; then, suddenly lowering his switch, he wounded the Muscovite in the arm, and again, with a slash from the left, cut through his jaw.

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Thou arrivest at the night: all thy limbs 19.9 are knocked up: thy bones are broken, thou fallest asleep from excess of somnolence: thou wakest up- 20.1 'Tis the hour when sad night begins: thou art absolutely alone.

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We went into a big sort of shop with lots of people buying things and he knocked up 'accidental like' (this was evidently a reminiscence of a phrase often used), against a lady and she dropped her parcels and purse and things, and I pretended to pick them up, and if there were only parcels or pennies I really did, but if the money spilt and it was gold I put my foot on it and picked it up for Marley when I could.

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There were sixty English miles of road between us and Berlin; he was knocked up, and a fast coach, or rumbling omnibus, accommodating six insides, would start for Berlin in the morning.

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"Here we have run down just in a friendly way,--Dick and I,--leaving the mother rather knocked up after her travels at Longmead, to look you up and see how you are getting on.

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I told you I went off on my own hook to that horrid place where they lived, and knocked up the old clergyman and the woman who wanted me to put on a shawl over one of the prettiest gowns I ever had.

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When he got to the place of meeting he found nothing but a telegram from Ralph, announcing that his father was so knocked up with his previous exertions that they were obliged to take a quiet day.

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I am a good deal worried and knocked up by all that has passed; my nerves, which have suffered very severely this last year, have not been improved by what has passed during this trying fortnight--for it _will_ be a _fortnight_ to-morrow that the beginning of the mischief began.... _Six o'clock p.m._--One word to say that _Lord Palmerston_ has just _kissed_ hands as _Prime_ Minister.

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How the Queen will be able to go through all the fatigues of the Coronation I do not know, as Her Majesty already complained of being tired, and knocked up by the man[oe]vres and dinners, and had to go to Mentz for a few days to rest herself.

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MY BELOVED MAMMA,--Last night I could not write to you as I would have wished, because I felt so knocked up that I went to bed.

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The gipsy was about to fire upon Thaddeus at the Queen's command, when Devilshoof knocked up the gipsy's arm, and the bullet meant for the lover killed the revengeful Queen.

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'I'm very glad it _was_ us you knocked up,' said Alice.

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"It's because Miss Beverley is knocked up and can't teach us any more, and Mr. Bennett is going to London.

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We stopped in one darkened shell-riddled town and knocked up an _estaminet_; we got a much finer meal than you can get at many places farther back.

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We were soon after ordered to stand to our arms, and, as day lit up, a thick haze hung on the opposite hills, which prevented our seeing the enemy; and, as they did not attempt to feel for us, we, contrary to our expectations, commenced our retreat unmolested; nor could we quite believe our good fortune when, towards the afternoon, we had passed several places where they could have assailed us, in flank, with great advantage, and caused us a severe loss, almost in spite of fate; but it afterwards appeared that they were quite knocked up with their exertions in overtaking us the day before, and were unable to follow further.

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He raised his weapon and was upon the point of shooting into their midst when Wilson knocked up his hand and sent the revolver spinning across the deck.

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I"--thus deposes Nicholas Feriter, of lawful age, "stept out of the window and speedily knocked up his heels.

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Certainly Filer's appearance was not altogether that of composure, for he was not only rather frightened at the fearful exposure of his own body at the breach and across the plain, but he was evidently knocked up, or rather bowed down, by the weight of his lifeless burden, which he must, if he came from the breach, have carried for upwards of half a mile, so that, under these disadvantages, the mistake might easily have been made even by any one of harder temperament than his.

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St. Paul's knocked up 188 in their first innings.

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The swords were no sooner met, than Castlewood knocked up Esmond's with the blade of his own, which he had broke off short at the shell; and the colonel falling back a step dropped his point with another very low bow, and declared himself perfectly satisfied.

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As they did so, however, the dropping shots of the enemy rapidly increased to a sharp fusilade; bullets whizzed overhead, or knocked up little spurts of sand and dust within the zareba; and the defenders were glad enough to once more seek the shelter of the low wall and parapet of earth.

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During the stormy scene to which I have just alluded, I was sitting in one of the front boxes directly over the Speaker's chair, and, although remarks kept flying about from the benches below, it was difficult to catch the words, and still more difficult to stop the utterer; so I don't wonder that Lord Randolph Churchill--who is rather deaf--should have misconstrued the words, 'You are not dumb!' as 'You are knocked up!'

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So dapes may be rendered _grub_, or perhaps _prog_; aspera Juno, _crusty Juno_; animam efflare, to _kick the bucket_; capere fugam, to _cut one's stick_, or _lucky_; confectus, _knocked up_; fraudatus, _choused_; contundere, _to whop_, &c. &c. THE ABLATIVE CASE AFTER THE VERB.

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My elephant kept crashing along at a steady pace, with blood streaming from his wounds; the dogs, which were knocked up with fatigue and thirst, no longer barked around him, but had dropped astern.

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He's too knocked up with travelling--he's come from Winnipeg right here--or you should hear it from his own lips.

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You really do look quite knocked up.

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(b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do more; as, the men were entirely knocked up.

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"The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had knocked up my followers."

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"Of course he's knocked up, and at his age it's quite absurd," said the young wife.

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Her husband assured her that she would be knocked up before she got half-way.

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"Well, gentlemen," said I at last, "I don't know how you feel, but I am completely knocked up; fortunately it is now calm, and I think we shall sleep well, and so, good night."

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With a sort of hiss from between his teeth Jabe shot out his long arm and knocked up the barrel of the rifle.

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Here some of the men began washing for gold, and, finding yellow specks the size of pin-heads in the fine sand, a number of them knocked up cabins for themselves and remained west of Edmonton {64} to try their luck.

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An officer knocked up his gun.

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So there I sat, huddled of a heap, quite knocked up, and, I suppose, must have coughed from time to time.

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This gateway was only between two meadows, and the ordinary farmer, when the old gate wore out, would have stopped it with a couple of rails, or a hurdle or two, something very, very cheap and rough; at most a gate knocked up by the village carpenter of ash and willow, at the lowest possible charge.

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In the night I knocked up other eight-and-twenty, all either in the neighbourhood of Trafalgar Square or else on the line of the Park."

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We carried on to such an excess that we were quite knocked up, and were so overpowered with sleep the next evening that by common consent we quietly went to bed, and deferred till morning any fresh deeds in the fields of love and lust.

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We were, indeed, knocked up; we could scarcely move, so weak had we become.

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The cook used to grin and say, "Well young devilskin, you seem jolly well knocked up," and made Harriet savage by saying, "Have a little mercy on him."

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At last having done as great a variety of ballocking, and learn more baudiness than most men of my age, I was knocked up, fucked out.

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I returned empty in pocket, and knocked up with copulating, yet had had none of the excitants, with women that I have had there since.

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I pulled it out in front of their faces as they squatted side by side, stiff and red-tipped; it throbbed, and knocked up and down in its randiness under every effort I made to turn on the water.

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In spite of Frank's confidence he could not bring himself to believe that the young fellow could be a match for a practised duellist, although he had, after he had left Frank's room the evening before, gone into the town and knocked up the gunmaker, who had sometime before gone to bed.

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After the journey accomplished, about 1700 miles, and sitting up two nights, we were pretty well knocked up, so had a hurried dinner and went to bed.

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He felt Chet's body plunge upon him an instant before he fired, and his pistol was knocked up and flew outward from his hand.

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Well, my sheet is at an end, and my hand quite knocked up.

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She was just crossing the bridge when, suddenly, she knocked up against a human head, which she had never seen there before.

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By the time I had crossed the river into El Afroun, I found my horse so entirely knocked up, that it was clearly impossible to proceed.

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In the morning he took the King of Würtemberg to Windsor, and just at the hour when the Duke expected him to dinner he was driving through Hyde Park back from Windsor--three barouches-and-four, the horses dead knocked up, in the front the two Kings, Jersey, and somebody else, all covered with dust.

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He said he was ill--knocked up--that in his speech to-day he should be as moderate and tame as anybody could wish.

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The King was quite knocked up and easily satisfied, for he neither desired nor could have understood any explanations.

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They have both got the influenza, and are very much knocked up, and I have seen neither of them yet....

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Shooting fast I heard Doloria give several quick gasps of excitement as I knocked up the ash dust close to them, and although, their number was not reduced we gained a feeling of greater security to find the fort more impregnable than I had prophesied.

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"Are you quite knocked up?

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"Thanks, thanks," said Fritz Kullrich faintly; he was quite knocked up now.

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Just as we were loosening from the quay, a poor young woman, much knocked up, with a child in her arms, had come to the vessel's side, and begged hard of master to take her aboard.

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He was charged, he said, with messages to the landlord, and to two mason lads in the inn, from a forlorn carter with whom he had travelled about twenty miles, but who, knocked up by the "drap drink" and a pair of bad shoes, had been compelled to shelter for the night in a cottage about seven miles short of Auchen-nasheen.

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