The 1,273 occurrences of knocked up

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I'm not a particular chap, wasn't brought up to it--no, nor squeamish either, but this is a bit thicker than anything I've ever knocked up against.

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"If she's an old one, she'll be knocked up with the journey, and she'll stick to the cold fowl and the cottage.

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Mary, my English nurse, and I are both quite knocked up.

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He therefore went to the Raven Bar in Ferriby, knocked up the landlord, and by paying four or five times the proper amount, managed to get a meal and some food for the next day.

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If I'd been half a minute sooner either I or the officer who found her must have knocked up against that--that monster.

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I don't believe it was the man that knocked up against that woman in the fog--no, not one bit I don't.

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At the same moment a man knocked up against me.

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A man at one of the tables where they were gambling had been seen attempting to conceal a card in his sleeve, and one of the party seized his pistol and fired; but fortunately the barrel of the pistol was knocked up, just as it was about to be discharged, and the ball passed through the upper deck, instead of the man's head, as intended.

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To prevent it in every way possible, the hen-coops were ordered to be knocked up, for the captain never sat down on deck himself, and never permitted an officer to do so.

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He used to like to watch us playing at lawn-tennis, and often knocked up a stray ball for us with the curved handle of his stick.

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My conscience would have upbraided me in not having come to you on Thursday, but, as it turned out, I could not, for I was quite unable to leave Shrewsbury before that day, and I reached home only last night, much knocked up.

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I am quite knocked up, and am going next Monday to revive under Water-cure at Moor Park.

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I attended the Bench on Monday, and was detained in adjudicating some troublesome cases 1 1/2 hours longer than usual, and came home utterly knocked up, and cannot rally.

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He said, that in passing the sands without a guide, his horse had knocked up, and he himself must have perished, if he had not been providentially relieved by a return post-chaise.

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"You might have made it easier if you hadn't knocked up Bryce's gun.

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Three hours more of exhausting toil, which almost knocked up the horses, brought us to the apparent ridge, and I was delighted to find that it consisted of a lateral range of tufa cones, which I estimate as being from 200 to 350, or even 400 feet high.

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The horses were knocked up.

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'But I was knocked up at dawn by a sailor with a message from Dollmann asking if he could come to breakfast with me.

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'Hardly,' said Laura; 'poor Lady Kilcoran was so knocked up by their ball, that she is the more in want of sea air.

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I meant to have reached Vicenza, but I must have been quite knocked up when I arrived here, though I cannot tell.

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A confusion of words took place; greetings on one hand, and partings on the other, for James Thorndale was going on by the train, and made only a few minutes' halt in which to assure Mrs. Henley that though the landing and the journey had knocked up his patient to-day, he was much better since leaving Corfu, and to beg Philip to write as soon as possible.

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He was perfectly overpowered then--so knocked up that there was no judging of him.

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He has been getting more and more into work in London, taking no exercise, and so was pretty well knocked up when he came here; and this place finished it.

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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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At the time of the flood my folks knocked up a house just about where the ark landed, and I guess they've held on to it ever since.

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Because there was no fireplace Tembarom knocked up a shelf, and, covering it with a scarf (from Tracy's), set up some inoffensive ornaments on it and flanked them with photographs of Jem Temple Barholm, Lady Joan in court dress, Miss Alicia in her prettiest cap, and the great house with its huge terrace and the griffins.

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It was late at night when we reached the little village harbour, and we were all pretty well knocked up by hard work, and having had nothing but very brackish water to drink all day-the best we could find at our last stopping-place.

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The National Guards of the towns are knocked up by expeditions into the country, and there is no money with which to provide for their change of quarters.

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At Grenoble, Chépy, the political agent and president of the club, writes that "he is knocked up, worn out, and exhausted, in trying to keep up public spirit and maintain it on a level with events," but he is "conscious that, if he should leave, all would crumble."

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my horse is almost quite knocked up --can you not give me a night's lodgings?"

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'It don't hurt me,' said Sarah, in disdain; and as Arthur shut his door, she murmured to herself, 'I'm not that sort to be knocked up with nothing; but he is an easy kind-spoken gentleman after all.

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'She is gone to bed; Arthur thinks her knocked up.'

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Of course we think you tremendously clever; and I met one of your dons at tea, and he said that your degree was not in the least a proof of your abilities: he said that you knocked up and got flurried in examinations.

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So the game of life proceeds, until Jerry Hawthorn, the rustic, is fairly knocked up by all this excitement and is forced to go home, and the last picture represents him getting into the coach at the "White Horse Cellar," he being one of six inside; whilst his friends shake him by the hand; whilst the sailor mounts on the roof; whilst the Jews hang round with oranges, knives, and sealing-wax: whilst the guard is closing the door.

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The red-capped young officer rode forward and knocked up the gunner's weapon with his sword.

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At sight of him several guns were loaded, and one shepherd is even said to have levelled his musket at him, but the colonel knocked up the barrel, and said, "Let no man fire without my orders!"

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"Ah!" said the king, throwing himself back in his armchair: "When I think that you have knocked up-how many horses?"

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"Ah!" said the king, throwing himself back in his armchair: "When I think that you have knocked up-how many horses?"

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Falconer, page 80: "He {Darwin} has laid the foundations of a great edifice: but he need not be surprised if, in the progress of erection, the superstructure is altered by his successors...") I had hoped to have called on you on Monday evening, but was quite knocked up.

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I assure you I quite long to see you and a few others in London; it is not so much the eczema which has taken the epidermis a dozen times clean off; but I have been knocked up of late with extraordinary facility, and when I shall be able to come up I know not.

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Some months ago Mr. Bates said he would pay me a visit during June, and I have thought it would be pleasanter for you to come here when I can get him, so that you would have a companion if I get knocked up, as is sadly too often my bad habit and great misfortune.

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I have lately been trying some with poor success, and suppose that I have done too much, for I have been completely knocked up for some days.

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For my part, I am unfit to keep the saddle another hour, and are you not yourself knocked up by this forced march in the great heat?"

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For my part, I am unfit to keep the saddle another hour, and are you not yourself knocked up by this forced march in the great heat?"

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Mr. Paramor did not smile, and again Shelton had the sense of having knocked up against something poised but firm.

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She kept me waiting at the foot an unconscionable time--it was certainly three in the morning before we knocked up that minister.

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I met him, and he looked regularly knocked up," answered Gus, in a sober tone.

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"If you're afraid I'm knocked up--in any such way as that--you may he at your ease about it."

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The governor's temper got afire, and he delivered an oath at him that knocked up the dust where it struck the ground, and told him to shoulder that cask or he would carve him to cutlets and send him home in a basket.

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The raindrops were so large and struck the river with such force that they knocked up the water like pebble-splashes.

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You 'll only get knocked up again.

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A shame that poor child has knocked up like this.

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'I've had occasion to call on Squire Everard,' the former said; 'but he couldn't see me on account of being quite knocked up at some bad news he has heard.'

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So severe was the fire that the guns were obscured by the dust knocked up by the little shells of the automatic gun.

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An eye-witness has recorded that the brigade was hardly visible amid the sand knocked up by the bullets.

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We poured such a fire on them that the bullets knocked up the ground in front just like you have seen the deep dust in a road in the middle of Summer fly up when the first great big drops of a rain storm strike it.

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"One night, when it was darker than usual, and he was hurrying lest he should be later than the time agreed on, he knocked up against a piece of furniture in the anteroom and upset it.

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The boat knocked up against something.

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"One night, when it was darker than usual, and he was hurrying lest he should be later than the time agreed on, he knocked up against a piece of furniture in the anteroom and upset it.

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The boat knocked up against something.

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At eight o'clock in the evening Jarriquez, with his face in his hands, knocked up, worn out mentally and physically, had neither strength to move, to speak, to think, or to associate one idea with another.

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That fine fellow did well to be afraid, for had you not knocked up my hand there'd be an arrow sticking in his throat by now.

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When you are exhausted, you say you are 'knocked up.'

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"Well, she is an old campaigner," said the Superintendent with a smile, "and not easily knocked up if I remember her aright.

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"Rather knocked up," replied Cameron, his tongue refusing to move with its accustomed ease.

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Mr. Paramor did not smile, and again Shelton had the sense of having knocked up against something poised but firm.

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You 'll only get knocked up again.

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A shame that poor child has knocked up like this.

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D'you want everybody in the house knocked up so that their keys can be tried?

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Luckily, I was entirely knocked up for a few days just at first; and coming home we had a poor young woman on board very ill, and Emily nursed her day and night."

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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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The shot went off, but his hand had knocked up the gun.

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Cameron's badly knocked up.

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Mrs. Curtis, between nursing, anxiety, and worry, looked lamentably knocked up, and at last Grace and Rachel prevailed on her to take a drive, leaving Rachel on a sofa in her sitting-room, to what was no small luxury to her just at present--that of being miserable alone--without meeting any one's anxious eyes, or knowing that her listlessness was wounding the mother's heart.

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He has not been away for more than a year, and now he is getting quite knocked up.

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"I hope she was not knocked up by the long night journey all at one stretch.

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I think that altogether I walked about eight miles, and I was not knocked up; this says a great deal for the climate of Perak.

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"You are knocked up.

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I won't have my men knocked up with flogging these rascals.

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He returned to Oulton at the end of a fortnight, having tired himself and knocked up his horse.

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Our fatigue in the morning had, however, been so oppressive that one of the party knocked up.

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The lawyer, knocked up early from his rest By restless clients, calls the peasant blest.

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Fat persons of both sexes who thought it unlucky to walk underneath, tried to negotiate the narrow strip of pavement between the foot of the ladder and the kerb, and in their passage knocked up against the ladder and sometimes fell into the road.

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I should have liked to have done it, but I knocked up after that.

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Rascals send me theirs per post from America, and I have more than once been knocked up out of bed to pay three or four shillings for books of which I can't get through one page, for of all books the most insipid reading is second-rate verse."

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I do n't know if he was knocked up or if he did n't know any more, but he stopped swearing and sat on a stump looking at a patch of barley they had destroyed, and shaking his head.

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They had been at "Callaghan"--as they christened the colt--since daylight, pretty well; and had crippled old Moll and lamed Maloney's Dandy, and knocked up two they borrowed from Anderson--yarding the rubbish; and there was n't a fence within miles of the place that he had n't tumbled over and smashed.

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Feeling by the motion that a very heavy sea must have been knocked up during the night, I began to be afraid that something must have gone wrong with the towing-gear, or that a hawser might have become entangled in the corvette's screw--which was the catastrophe of which I had always been most apprehensive; so slipping on a pair of fur boots, which I carefully kept by the bedside in case of an emergency, and throwing a cloak over-- "Le simple appareil D'une beaute qu'on vient d'arracher au sommeil," I caught hold of a telescope, and tumbled up on deck.

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In the afternoon one of the horses knocked up; we were then on a brow of a hill, which commanded a fine view of the Llanos.

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In the afternoon one of the horses knocked up; we were then on a brow of a hill, which commanded a fine view of the Llanos.

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But now he was a good deal knocked up, and I was a little frightened fearing that I had over-driven him under the heat of the sun.

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"I am only a little knocked up, but I shall soon be better."

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The man instantly raised the weapon that was in his hand, and was in the very act of firing over the shoulder of Sir George Barkley, when his arm was suddenly knocked up by a blow from behind, and the ball passed through the window, a yard and a half above Wilton's head.

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While Charnock and the other had been speaking, a young gentleman had suddenly entered the room, and pushing rapidly forward through the group in the doorway, he had advanced to the front and knocked up the hand of the assassin just as he was in the very act of firing.

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I rode one to death yesterday, and this one, which I bought in London, is already knocked up: if I must be caught like a rat in a rat-trap, as well here as anywhere."

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He certainly saved my life; for I do not suppose the man who was in the act of firing at me would have missed his mark, if his hand had not been knocked up.

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"He is quite knocked up.

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I was rather knocked up, you see, and went to sleep, and that sent it out of my head."

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I begged him to follow your father over here, and, as his own horse was knocked up, I mounted him at his own request on Jezebel, he preferring her to all the horses in the paddock on account of her beauty, after having been duly warned of her wickedness.

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He knocked up the wood for that day and for Sunday also, packed and stored it; cut double the quantity of oats; threw over twice the usual amount of fodder.

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