The 635 occurrences of knock up
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Instead of continuing his work, he mounts his cob, after taking a glass or two of rum or whiskey grog--the more out of spirits he feels the stiffer it is--and rides off to knock up some neighbour, perhaps his equal, or perhaps utterly unfit to be his companion, as far as social intercourse is concerned.
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Had he been alone he would have made another attempt to reach home; but Charley could not go further, and Harry would very likely knock up.
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I bade him therefore go on as his master told him, although he proceeded at a slower rate than at first, for fear of knocking up his horses.
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It seemed wonderful that more of the men did not knock up.
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The wind now shifted to the southward, and blew much stronger than before, knocking up a sea which threatened every moment to swamp our boat, which was not fitted for rough water.
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You will be getting the racquettes, and may knock up before you reach the fort."
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The first day's journey was but a short one, as Mr Battiscombe was unwilling to run the risk of knocking up his horses.
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I am strong, and well accustomed to exercise; but, depend upon it, you would knock up with the fatigue."
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"Why, my lads could knock up a better palace in no time with some bamboo poles and attap mats."
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Besides the horses we rode, we had several spare ones in case ours should knock up.
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Next loosen the small boxwood wedges at the side of each stem, and adjust the plane by tapping the stems with a hammer until the cutting iron is in the desired position; then knock up the small wedges nice and tight.
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[Pg 101] The portion marked H is called the "horn," and it is not cut off until after the frame is glued up; its object is to prevent the rail splitting or bursting when knocking up the frame or during the cramping process.
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"I've brought an addition to our family, Mrs Seagrave," said Ready: "we must allow them to remain in the house until I can knock up a little shelter for them.
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"William," said Ready, "I think, now that we have spread out the tents, we will, if Mr Seagrave approves, all set to at once and knock up a fowl-house; it won't be more than a day's job, and then the creatures will have a home.
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They turned back immediately, and one of them, J. Gillespie, got off his horse and lifted the corpse on to the saddle, they holding it in position by hanging on to a leg on either side, and walked back, while the bullets were whistling around them, and knocking up little spurts of dirt on the ground in front of them.
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Come, we'll have a couple of porters and a chair to have you carried when you knock up."
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"Ay, in capital time, if you don't knock up."
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_I_ knock up!
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So hardened had we all become during the course of our travels that we found ourselves not only equal to Makarooroo in pedestrian powers, but superior; for when occasion required we could almost knock him up, but I am free to admit that we never succeeded in doing this thoroughly.
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I'll engage to take him on my back when he knocks up on the march--for we have a march before us, as I shall presently explain--and when we get into a canoe he will be able to rest."
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"You see, Disco," he said, "it won't do to knock up the men with continuous travel, therefore I shall give them a spell of rest here.
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When Montaigne was in Rome in 1580 he complained bitterly that he was always knocking up against his own countrymen, and might as well have been in Paris.
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"I don't believe in knuckling down to any ugly lot of fellows that chooses to knock up against us," and Josh must have expressed the feelings of most of those present when he said this, for there was a chorus of "my sentiments exactly," as soon as he finished.
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Nicko Jeyes-- or if you knock up against him to-night at the theatre-- mum about this.
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While that French chauffeur of hers is rollin' us down Long Island at from forty to fifty miles per hour, she has her note-book out and is pumpin' me full of things I'm expected to remember--what train the chef's gang is comin' on, how the supplies are to be carted over, who to see about knockin' up a stage for the cabaret talent, and where the buntin' has been ordered.
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If we can but foil Genl Howe again, I think we knock him up for the Campaign.
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"Well, we shall knock up against each other now and then, here in the diner."
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Alden and you and I and Howland, and some other of the ancients, will swing our hammocks at the Fort if you will, and my house may be turned into a billet for the bachelors, until we can help them to knock up housen for themselves."
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"If the general has gone to bed, we must knock him up.
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I suppose, your honor, there will be no harm in knocking up some of this woodwork, to make a bit of a fire?
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All the hard and fast laws which govern the world we learnt by knocking up against them.
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I determined to knock up the lodge-keeper, and to enlist her assistance.
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Avoid the shops altogether, and you are bound to knock up against some gentleman in the gutter encased in a long white waterproof, on which is portrayed the inevitable foot and the name and address of the chiropodist.
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Mrs. Crampton is not as young as she was, and it is a pity to knock her up."
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Marcus scolded me; he is always so afraid of my knocking up, but I know he was glad of the cocoa.
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But the rest of the picture was such a perplexity to me that I could think of nothing better than to send for Mr. Laroy Sunderland to call one day when I was out, and knock up Raphael to draw the princess, and Salvator Rosa, the clouds, and Titian to see to the sky and light.
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We heard that when the captain went to take his leave of the admiral--Drury was his name--he asked leave just to knock up some of the Dutch settlements on the way.
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In the day-time we were very busy; I was inventing a spinning wheel; Schillie and the girls concocting chessmen; the boys knocking up shelves, seats, and boxes; the maids labouring through a perfect haycock of rent clothes and damaged stockings; somebody always singing, and sometimes that somebody was everybody.
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"We will take a day's rest then for the sake of our steeds; for though at a push they would have gone twice as far without knocking up, it's as well to give them a holiday where it can be done."
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The kitchen place is splendid, and the cook would knock you up something nice in no time.
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"I mean to get a stone and knock up some of the bricks, if I can, and see."
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"Then I got a notion that I could knock up a sort of chair he could sit in, and me and Pete and Mrs Mapah could carry it strapped on our backs in turn."
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You must ride back up the hill if you want _he_; and even so, I doubt he'll have to knock up the folks at Hall to get at the keys."
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But they must needs give thee to this fine jewel of fellow, who, whereas thou art the best girl in Florence and the modestest, is not ashamed to knock us up in the middle of the night, to tell us that thou art a strumpet, as if we knew thee not.
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"And after that got most awfully friendly and kept knocking up against each other."
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Only the shortest horse rations can be carried, and even at the best, a fortnight's continuous work of this kind will so knock up a good horse that he must have three months' rest before he can be of any further use.
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One's head flopping and wobbling and knocking up against whatever happened to be in the way; one's legs following suit; one's body strained, twisted, scratched, bruised, pounded--really, though I see you fellows laughing at this very moment, and should like to kick you for it if I were not too comfortable to move, I would not wish even such ruffians as you two to suffer such torture.
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"We should always be knocking up against trippers in the garden, Archies and Samuels and Thomases and what not.
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We contrived, however, to knock them up; and Timothy having seen that our horses were put into the stable, we lay down till the next morning upon a bed which happened to be unoccupied.
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Now, I am going to knock up our friend Cervantes, and persuade him to supply our needs, so far as the resources of his establishment will allow.
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Hrut, too, saw, and sprang quickly aside, knocking up as he did so the handle of the axe, so that it fell full on the ground.
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"The captain always knocks up this way, over square-leg's head."
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Now my dancing days terminated many years ago when I was told that my dancing was the very prose of motion, but I did not want to say so, because I thought it just possible I might be allowed to dance with Brancaccia if I played my cards judiciously; so I merely said modestly I was afraid of knocking up against the other couple.
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I'll give you the benefit of my experience as a 'tec, and with my plot and your own writing we'll be able to knock up a story for the paper I talk of.
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The mention of sharks gave me an idea, and I asked my companions whether perchance any of them happened to have any small stuff about them out of which we might contrive to make a fishing line; whereupon Chips, with a smile, requested me to vacate my seat in the sternsheets for a moment, and, opening the locker in the after thwart of the boat, produced an excellent cod line, with hooks and sinker all complete, explaining that as soon as he gathered an inkling of what Bainbridge intended on the previous day, he contrived, while engaged in knocking up a temporary pen for the sheep, to filch the said line out of the cook's galley and to secrete it, afterward seizing an opportunity to transfer it to the gig's locker when he learned that she was about to be turned over to us.
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You would knock up your desert ships, and make them sore-footed the first day, have great difficulty in getting them half the distance the next day, half that the third, and no distance at all the fourth."
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Try Park Lane, or run and knock up the Laureate, and then come and report your success!
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Therefore he had to content himself with knocking up centuries in college matches, and an annual performance among the Seniors.
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men to knock up a strong case for the Albertus Magnus and--but enough.
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If we had not had lamps we should have been groping about in the dark, stumbling over things, knocking up against the props, hurting ourselves, and losing our way; but our lamps showed us the right path, and how to keep out of danger.
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"Oy, sir," said Ben, coolly; "they'll knock up an earthwork before morning, and set the guns in a position for battering the gate-way."
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They proved apt and merry pupils, and learned their tasks quite readily, so, that while the girls missed the wonderful dishes that Huldah had been able to "knock up," they were daily fed on very palatable food, considering the age and newness of the young cooks.
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"[5] From Dickens himself I never heard much allusion to the school thus described; but I knew that, besides being the subject dealt with in _Household Words_, it had supplied some of the lighter traits of Salem House for _Copperfield_; and that to the fact of one of its tutors being afterwards engaged to teach a boy of Macready's, our common friend, Dickens used to point for one of the illustrations of his favorite theory as to the smallness of the world, and how things and persons apparently the most unlikely to meet were continually knocking up against each other.
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Another gentleman (no doubt of great fashion also) sent a letter to me two hours after I had gone to bed, preparatory to rising at four next morning, with instructions to the slave who brought it to knock me up and wait for an answer!
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The people were all abed, and we had to knock them up.
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Be sure that you shall hear, however, by Saturday's mail, if I should knock up as to reading.
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He knocks up very easily."
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The breeze is knocking up the sea."
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A month later he added:-- "I have got the sketch and extracts from 'Lalla Rookh'--which I humbly suspect will knock up ..." (he intended himself), "and show young gentlemen that something more than having been across a camel's hump is necessary to write a good Oriental tale.
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A little drive like the final stage of, say, London to Durham with such short rests would probably knock up an English horse, but even our weakly teams were fit to continue after twenty-four hours at Lower Kolymsk.
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His earlier austerities were avenged by constant pains in the bowels and stomach troubles, but in dedications of churches, ordinations, and other offices he would out-tire and knock up every one else, as he went from work to work.
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I don't think we are going past the land at more than three miles an hour, but that would be quite enough if the wind comes from the north to knock up a nasty sea in no time.
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At length he had to confess that "a very little more of this hurrying and vexation would knock me up altogether."
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Jimmy knew what to think of the enchantments of the stage, those luminous visions which the audience admired to the tune of the orchestra: jealousies, vanities, hatreds to knock up against and calm down; recruits to put through their paces; and the whole day of it--and the whole night, too--for a few pounds a week, including the tips received from the artistes, twenty-five to forty shillings a month.
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If they's persons engaged in unlawful practices on this here mountain top, mebbe he'll knock up against 'em.
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Upon the whole, he was much averse to knocking up the groom, the only man who lived on the parsonage except himself, and dragging Sam into the village.
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Here, Beta Moshi, cut a couple of young trees and knock up a ladder.
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He at once gave instructions to the constable who had guided me to the station to knock up a doctor and follow us at once with him, so there was very little delay before I was once more driving my car at full speed towards the scene of the tragedy.
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"You can hardly knock up a hardworked medical man at 3.30 a.m. just to ask him a question."
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Forrest would not despair, however, and after some difficulty we managed, with the assistance of the local police, to knock up a man who was locally reputed to know all about motors.
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One of the showmen had been despatched from the head-quarters of the establishment on an errand, and, knocking up against Ned, exclaimed-- 'Hilloa!
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And if you won't stay, I'll go with you to the tavern and knock up old Hodge: he's been asleep these four hours."
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Let's go and knock him up."
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The thick weather would undoubtedly be a disadvantage, as it would render objects less easily distinguishable; but then, the strong north-west winds and squalls would knock up a heavy sea, which would make the water break on every reef, thereby rendering them easily both seen and _heard_ in the thickest weather.
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The action gave great pleasure and satisfaction to the men present, who, as a mark of gratitude, on return to town, wished to knock up the public-house people and shout drinks for all hands.
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He declined to state in what ways he would do it, because the disclosure would knock up some convenient modes he had of ending his own letters, and those of others.
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The natives, however, are very clever at deer-snaring, and their sporting expeditions are generally attended with success; but the hardships undergone by them on these excursions would completely knock up a European constitution.
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After this freak, which was nearly knocking up my cruise, we jogged on steadily until we came to a narrow street, down which he turned in spite of all my endeavours to prevent him, and again hove to at the door of another house.
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Her brows bent, like those of an ox when the ploughshare strikes a stone, Thamar staggered out of the palace, knocking up against the walls, walking almost on all-fours, for every now and then she put her hands out to save herself from being crushed under her burden.
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The bullets buzzed, whistled, and hummed by us, missing us by yards, feet, and inches, knocking up the dust and hitting the stones and thorn bushes we staggered through.
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We were rearguard and just as we left the site of the camp, which had been in a most picturesque spot, got bullets whistling by us and knocking up the dust round our horses.
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When, instead of the news which they had been expecting to receive, of the extermination of the royalist faction, the Pampelonese learned that Orbaiceta was captured; and that Lorenzo and Oraa had succeeded in nothing except in knocking up their horses and fagging their men; they sent to Valdes, the general-in-chief of the army of the North, who was then in Biscay, imploring him to come and make an end of the Carlists.
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The wind, too, had shifted, and, as we pushed out of the cove, was blowing fresh from the westward, knocking up a short, choppy sea that threatened soon to become dangerous to such a small boat as ours.
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Meanwhile, the glass was falling, great masses of cloud came driving up from the eastward, and a little breeze from the same quarter sprang up, rapidly freshening and knocking up a sea which soon set even our battleships rolling and pitching ponderously.
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We had to knock up the household of the secretary-a formidable personage with whom I had never been brought into contact before-and in a short time we were holding a strictly private and confidential interview with him, by the glimmer of a solitary candle, just serving to light up his severe face, which changed its expression several times as I narrated the calamity.
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Or sometimes they choose spots of waste land near a high road... there the squatters knock up what is called a 'hut.'
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Well now, the thing to do is this: go out in the evening with a long pole, and knock up high into the branches of the trees, and glance up and down, holding your dress out, and singing:-- 'I'm the girl that brought him in, Blackamè!
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Well, I will knock them up, I will!â he muttered at each knock, fuming at himself, but at the same time he redoubled his knocks on the gate.
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He will knock up the resident manager of that bank and try to get a cheque cashed to-night.
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The sun had long been up, the clouds were flying fast across the sky, and the wind was working round to the east, knocking up a short choppy sea as it met the ebb, and covering the river with white horses.