The 1,273 occurrences of knocked up

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* * * * * I was knocked up yesterday in a good cause.

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But ere the blades could clash together, Gloucester swung between them and knocked up the Earl's sword with his own, which he had unsheathed with amazing swiftness.

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The Tuaricks had another knocked up, and we two,--that of the blacks and one which I had purchased of Mr. Gagliuffi.

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He must plan charities, organise mobs, causing free-schools to be knocked up, and opponents to be knocked down.

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But, as I said before, the Whigs and reformers have knocked up the hanging profession; and if it was not for the suicides, which, I am happy to say, are as abundant as ever, I don't know what we should do."

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Once, it was on a Sunday, Tom and I, with a party of friends, had had a very long walk, a regular pedestrian excursion, thirty miles, there or thereabouts, to use a Scotticism, and poor Tom was quite knocked up and confined to bed for several days.

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Why, is that thy work?" and poor Jack was ashamed, and said: "No, I know this is not my work, but my poor missus is i' th' factory; she has to leave at half-past five and works till eight at night, and then she is so knocked up that she cannot do aught when she gets home, so I have to do everything for her what I can, for I have no work, nor had any for more nor three years, and I shall never have any more work while I live;" and then he wept a big tear.

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Mary has to work and I have to stop at home, mind the childer sweep and wash, bake and mend; and, when the poor woman comes home at night, she is knocked up.

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During the journey, his anger calmed down, he regained his senses and returned to Paris, astonished at his own boldness, and feeling as aching and knocked up, as if he had broken some bones, but nevertheless he went to have a _bock_ at his brewery.

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"One night, when it was darker than usual, and he was making haste lest he should be later than the time agreed on, the officer knocked up against a piece of furniture in the ante-room and upset it.

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It was the Baron, in a traveling suit, who looked much altered and older, and as soon as he saw his old friend, he seized both his hands, and said, in a somewhat tired voice: "I have just returned, my dear friend, and I have come to you immediately; I am thoroughly knocked up."

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He drew nearer, saying almost in a whisper: "But Uncle Billy says you fought a good fight while you was gettin' ready to help us cul'ud folks, an' if you got so knocked up you can't do nothin' moah, maybe 'twon't be expected as you should have yo' hands full when you go through the gates.

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He fell forward; and in another moment Ruggiero would have run him through the body; had not the weapon been knocked up by Francis, who, watching every movement of the fight, sprang forward when he saw the merchant slip.

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"I have seen the admiral," Polani said as he entered, "and told him that you were sound asleep, and I did not intend to wake you, for that you were looking worn and knocked up.

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They then stopped at the Red Lion, at Rake, knocked up the landlord, drank pretty freely, and then taking a candle and spade dug a hole in a sand-pit where they buried him.

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The church being in the course of rebuilding, a rough altar had been hastily constructed, or rather knocked up--for it was of most crude workmanship--of wood planks on a small grass plot.

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But as they looked, a head of red appeared suddenly in the silver, smoke floated away, and a bullet knocked up the ice near them.

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'Good-night, dear,' says Mabel, 'I am so tired I really cannot stay and talk to you to-night, and you, child, you look knocked up, go to bed at once.'

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You do look pretty well knocked up."

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'I have told her all along that she would be knocked up by this nursing; and now I daresay she begins to find I am right.'

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Poor Hajjee Hannah was quite knocked up by the journey down; I shall take her up in my boat.

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_June_ 17.--We have had four or five days of such fearful heat with a Simoom that I have been quite knocked up, and literally could not write.

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I only hope that you are not knocked up, my darling.

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He therefore tore a bush from the hedge, and left it where the carriage had stopped: and ordering the post-boys to draw up at the next cottage, he knocked up the inmates, and promised them a reward if they found it.

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I nearly fainted on my chair from excessive fatigue; and some of our party had absolutely laid themselves down on the steps of an altar, and were fast asleep; we therefore returned home completely knocked up by the night's dissipation.

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When at length the flames gained the ascendancy, the officers and soldiers around them prepared their wretched repast; it consisted of lean and bloody pieces of flesh torn from the horses that were knocked up, and at most a few spoonfuls of rye-flour mixed with snow-water.

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All the rest had fled; the rigour of the climate had completely knocked up their soldiers, whom the Russians to the very last moment were unable to conquer; their arms fell from their hands, and they themselves fell at a few paces distance from their arms.

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In the fifth, I cleaned up the passenger (that is the third this week), then knocked up the pilot very badly at 10 meters,--completely disabled, he landed evidently with great difficulty, and he must be in hospital.... Three lines to describe a victory, the sixteenth.

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Seeing that many of us had eaten little or nothing since the early evening of the previous day it is not surprising that the greater part were knocked up.

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Some sort of barracks or shelter was knocked up on the south side of the Assiniboine opposite the flats.

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Seven huts, known as Fort Clatsop, were knocked up on the south side of the Columbia's harbor for winter quarters; and a wretched winter the little fort spent, beleaguered not by hostiles, but by such inclement damp that all the men were ill before spring and their very leather suits rotted from their backs.

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"But me wouldn't have," insisted Jack sturdily, "if Jenny hadn't knocked up against me."

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The next instant he sprang aside and knocked up Archie's gun, which had been levelled at him.

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I suppose you were pretty well knocked up, when you learned what I had done.

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In the midst of one of the dances Oo-koo-hoo walked up to the "band" and knocked up the fiddle to command silence.

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Along about half way from Cape St. Roque to the Amazon, the wind which had been blowing hard for two days, from E.S.E., and raising lively waves all about, increased to a gale that knocked up seas, washing over the little craft more than ever.

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The animals are knocked up, and the Kashalla has lost a horse.

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He was up and off by three o'clock this morning, and knocked up the Widow Polkinghorne, trying to borrow a pick and shovel."

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Thrower, too, was quite knocked up by it; my powers of sleeping at all times and places prevented my suffering in the same way, and I found these sleeping cars very comfortable.

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Well, sir, we went off in a party and knocked up old Peter, and got a pot of paint, and titivated No.

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But as you may imagine, the poor little thing is completely knocked up, so we brought her down from there in a cart.

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Here the rowers were so knocked up, by their exertions, that it was impossible to proceed further; and they took refuge in a deserted hut, by the bank.

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Fernhurst won with ease, and Gordon knocked up forty-two.

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It was, however, thought expedient to guard against a repetition of this perilous entertainment, and the contraband crocks were transferred to a still more secluded hiding-place in the queer tiny sod-and-stone shanty with Hugh McInerney, who had displayed unexpected strategical ability and presence of mind under late emergencies, now knocked up for himself in a hollow behind the hill.

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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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After recompensing both with all our spare cash, we got ourselves hoisted stiffly into the cab, and Carr good-naturedly insisted on seeing me home, though he owned to feeling, as he put it, "rather knocked up by his knocking down."

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He said that he felt the heat, and he certainly look very much knocked up.

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As she rounded the final shoulder of sandstone her hand was knocked up and her pistol fell clattering.

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But he will not like it forgotten that he once knocked up a century for England v Australia... You'll forgive our young friend, sir; he left school early, when the war broke out_."

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Farrell, reverting to his old journeyman skill, sawed planks and knocked up a hut.

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When one hut became intolerable for the pair of us--for in all that time we never ceased hating--he knocked up a second and better one for my habitation.

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The Ulster contingent, who call themselves "workmen," were terribly knocked up by their walk of about thirteen miles from Claremorris, a fact which hardly speaks well for their thews and sinews, but in fairness it must be admitted that they were obliged to undertake their march after a long and fatiguing railway journey, at sundown, on a muddy road, and in alternate light and heavy rain.

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Not a soul was stirring excepting the blacksmith, who had been knocked up comparatively early by the market folk.

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[Illustration] H stands for HIGH-BALL, knocked up to the sky.

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H stands for HIGH-BALL, knocked up to the sky.

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When they got to Creil, they knocked up the Mayor, and begged him to procure them a horse.

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"Nora answered him niver a word, an' he shtarted to turn round, but whin he looked at the horse, the poor baste was knocked up entirely.

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In the case of Portland cement mortar, a quantity sufficient only for the day's use should be "knocked up," but with Roman cement fresh mixtures must be made several times a day, as near as possible to the place of using.

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Aloft the _Vesuvius_ spread her full sails in cloud upon cloud of dove-coloured grey (for, in fact, she carried very dingy canvas) against the blue of heaven, and reached along with the northerly breeze on her larboard quarter, heeling gently, yet just low enough for the Major to blink as his gaze, travelling beyond the lee bulwarks, caught the dazzle of foam knocked up and spreading off her blunt bows.

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"Sensible!" groaned Salisbury, laying his head against a form; "oh, hold me, somebody--I'm quite knocked up with laughing.

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These fines are entered on the batter book, and charged among the battels and decrements,* a portion of which is paid to the porter quarterly, for being knocked up.

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hey, old fellow," said Echo; "you shall hear: knocked up Transit, and made him send for his colours, and paint it over--looks quite natural, don't it?--defy the big wigs to find it out--and if I can but make all right by a sop to the old Cerberus at the gate, and _queer_ the _prick bills_ at chapel prayers, I hope to escape the _quick-sands of rustication_, and pass safely through the _creek of proctorial jeopardy_.

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[55] I do not _feel_ well; I feel _thoroughly_ exhausted from all that I have gone through this Session, and am quite knocked up by the two little trips I made to Windsor.

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He is really a most agreeable visitor, though I must own that I am somewhat knocked up by our great exertions.

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Suddenly, turning a corner, he knocked up against a man, who, half-reeling, came full-tilt against him.

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"I'm afraid," continued Oaklands, "the old gentleman will be quite knocked up.

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those are not the things that tire me, somehow; but in general I am very easily knocked up--I am indeed--most things are so much trouble, and I hate trouble; I suppose it is that I am not strong."

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I shall be glad enough to tumble into bed, for I'm as tired as a dog: it really is astonishing how easily I am knocked up."

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"I found Mr. Oaklands lying on the sofa in the library; he says he feels a little knocked up by his walk this morning, and desired me to apologise for his absence, and wish everybody good-night for him.

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He looked into the gross darkness that may result from excess of light; that is, he understood how knocked up, on the eve of production, every one concerned in the preparation of a piece might be, with nerves overstretched and glasses blurred, awaiting the test and the response, the echo to be given back by the big, receptive, artless, stupid, delightful public.

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One blow knocked up the sword; a second laid the villain prostrate.

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"I don't think it is above twenty miles on to Chatillon-sur-Loing; but it is all through the hills, and it is of no use arriving there with the horses so knocked up as to be useless for service.

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We might even station one of them in a village there, under the pretence that he had been knocked up with the cold and hardship, and was desirous of staying quietly with his friends.

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Here log houses were knocked up, and the servants dispersed moose hunting for winter supplies.

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They are quartered about in churches, in barracks, in halls knocked up, till they can be sent to farms.

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Rude log cabins of thatch roof and plaster walls were knocked up, and there began round the log cabin that tiny clearing which was to expand into the farm.

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Rude huts of rough timber and thatch roof with logs extemporized for berths and benches were knocked up for wintering quarters on Nelson River, and the next nine months were passed hunting deer for store of provisions, and building flatboats to ascend the interior.

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The barracks knocked up hastily is known after Selkirk's family name as Fort Douglas; but the store of deer meat has been exhausted, and the colonists are on the verge of a second winter.

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'I'm quite knocked up!' exclaimed the Ball, While mounting to the skies; 'I know I shall have such a fall After this dreadful rise.

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"Glanced up from the water through the stern, knocked up the taffrail, and then went forward: just missed the mast, but hit the windlass.

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A friendly hand from behind the coiner had knocked up his arm in the very nick of time.

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I wager he swore a round oath or two as he and his servants made their way thither through the dark and knocked up the host, who, keeping country hours, was already in his bed.

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In the mean while old Thackeray laughs at all this; and goes on in his own way; writing hard for half a dozen Reviews and Newspapers all the morning; dining, drinking, and talking of a night; managing to preserve a fresh colour and perpetual flow of spirits under a wear-and-tear of thinking and feeding that would have knocked up any other man I know two years ago, at least.

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The Player is an adept at mimicry, the Musician a good player, and the Poet no bad stick at a rhyme; all anxious to turn their talents to good account, and, when mingled together, productive of harmony, though the situation they are in at present is rather discordant to their feelings; but then you know 'tis said, that discord is the soul of harmony, and they knocked up a duet among themselves yesterday, which I thought highly amusing."

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"If we don't get a little quiet now, I shall be having dear Blanche thoroughly knocked up before the season is over."

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Girls at her age are so easily knocked up by the dissipations of London, and it is very desirable that she should take the opportunity of a rest now she can get it."

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If she is regularly knocked up by July, don't forget I raised my voice against the Commonstone ball."

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So, faintly leaning on the butler's arm, the poor old man (whom a moiety of ten minutes, with its crowding fears, had made to look some ten years older,) proceeded to the square, and knocked up Sir Abraham at midnight, and the admiral came down, half asleep, in dressing-gown and slippers, vexed at having been knocked up from his warm berth so uncomfortably: it put him sorely in remembrance of his hardships as a middy.

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"No, no," the colonel said; "a thirty-six-mile march, through this bush, is a great deal more than a fair day's march for anyone; and I am not going to see such good men knocked up, by asking too much of them.

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Writing in 1814 from his camp at Winnebago Lake, he says: "I think that Bony [Bonaparte] must be knocked up as all Europe are now in Arms.

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On April 27 he wrote in his diary, "Knocked up quite, and remain--recover--sent to buy milch goats.

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It was important that the horses should not be knocked up, as their lives might depend upon their speed.

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Some fellow knocked up a colored woman or something and we waded right in and believe me we made Atlanta a fit place to live in.

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My father got it next day from my mother for this; and so would I myself, but it was several days before I left my bed, completely knocked up as I was with the excitement and one thing or another.

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Both he and the adjutant-general were much knocked up by the journey; but I revived the former with the last of the Immortalité rum.

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Even Birket, who to- day fleshed his maiden bat on the Grandcourt meadow, knocked up his two and threes, with one cut for four into the tent, till it seemed to Templeton that cricket was in the air, and that even Hooker and Duffield could have pulled the match off single-handed.

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"I must ask Miss Steele to give you a little holiday, or you'll be quite knocked up."

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I had passed under Temple Bar and was making my way down Fleet Street, when there knocked up against me a great carter fellow, whom, by his gait, I took to be more than half drunk.

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_Q._ You went and knocked up Mr. Tragear?

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