The 1,273 occurrences of knocked up
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What will be the good of them to your father and mother, for instance, when you are knocked up?"
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Another hustled me as I brushed past and sent me knocking up against Jack, who, if he hadn't stood steady, would have knocked up against some one else, and so pretty certainly have provoked an assault.
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He represented to his mother that Jeffreys was necessary to his safety abroad, and to his father that Jeffreys would be knocked up if he did not take regular daily exercise.
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"And _she_, of course she's quite knocked up?" said he, with a groan.
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"I say, what a stunning score our house knocked up in the second innings.
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I knocked up thirty-two off my own bat, and would have been not out, only Mills saw where I placed my smacks in between the two legs, and slipped up and got hold of me low down with his left."
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What with the excitement of finding myself once more among so many friends and the pain of my wound it was some time before I succeeded in getting to sleep that night; and before I did so the _Daphne_ was rolling like an empty hogshead, showing how rapidly she had run off the land and into the sea knocked up by the gale.
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The most serious feature of the case, so far as a boat voyage was concerned, was that even the biggest of the available boats, which was one of the _Barracouta's_ gigs, was much too small to justify me in the attempt to make the passage to Jamaica in her; for should the breeze happen to pipe strong, the boat could not possibly live in the boisterous sea that would at once be knocked up.
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The night was even thicker and darker than it had been when we brought the schooner to an anchor off the harbour's mouth; there was a cold, dismal rain persistently falling, and the breeze, having freshened up considerably, was now sweeping over the sea with a dreary, wintry, moaning sound that distinctly accentuated the discomfort of our situation, while it had knocked up a sea that threatened to render our landing a work of very considerable difficulty and danger.
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I began to feel rather anxious, for the sea which the freshening breeze had knocked up was very detrimental to _our_ speed, while upon the frigate, owing to her vastly superior power, it had little or no effect.
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We had a most excellent dinner, washed down by a glass or two of good wine; some capital stories illustrative of life on the island were told; and about midnight we all turned in, I, for one, being almost knocked up by my tramp about Kingston, after the confinement of the ship.
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Both my father and Winter were much struck with the smooth and easy motion with which she took the seas, especially when going close-hauled to windward, the short, choppy head-sea which the breeze had knocked up having not the slightest perceptible retarding effect upon the sharp, gently-swelling tubes, which pierced the combing seas absolutely without any shock whatever; whereas a boat of the usual mould would have pitched and jerked into them, and half-blinded us and wholly wet us through with spray.
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"Hurrah, sir, we're afloat, we're afloat!" were the first sounds I heard as my scattered senses came back to me; and, clearing away with my pocket-handkerchief the blood which was streaming down into my eyes and blinding me, I found that I had been knocked up against the mainmast, to one of the belaying-pins in the spider-hoop of which I was clinging with one hand; and I further observed that the shock of the collision, coupled no doubt with the action of our square canvas, which had been laid aback, had caused the schooner to back off the shoal on which she had grounded, and that she now had stern-way upon her.
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Now that they were on shore, however, they felt that the time had arrived when a little more privacy could be enjoyed by the ladies of the party; so a few boards were obtained and with them a partition knocked up, dividing the upper room into two equal parts, the half which was approached through the trap-door being devoted to the ladies, while the men obtained access to their sleeping apartment by means of a ladder and the open window, the ladder being drawn up into the room at night.
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We met at the admiralty at twelve, where Graham lay much knocked up with the fatigue and anxiety of yesterday.
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The foremost villain then sprang at me, and we wrestled together, after I had knocked up his revolver.
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This occupied a good while; but at length a stout rough article was knocked up, which served the purpose admirably.
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"But the missus has been round to your father's to-night, and it seems the nurse has knocked up.
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"Knocked up, has she?" said Edwin.
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"I was so knocked up, for want of sleep, and the gale and all, that, when they got down to us, my head was about gone.
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I should ha' been, though, if Mr Lomax hadn't knocked up the barrel with his stick and then downed the man."
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Then a strong party came over from the settlement on the day the boats were despatched, travelled across rapidly, knocked up a shed of the planks and newly-sawn-up boards unloaded at our landing-place from the boats, and I honestly believe the two happiest people there that day among the strange party of blacks, who carried the wood along the forest path, were Pomp and Hannibal, who, though far from strong, insisted upon his being well enough to help.
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He seemed to reckon a great deal upon the reward that he was to get for bringing the first intelligence of the poetÂ’s safety, and told me that, fearing some other might get the start of him, he had travelled day and night; and added, that the horse, which he now bestrode, belonged to a peasant, from whom he had taken it forcibly on the road, having left his own, which was knocked up, to be brought on after him.
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"I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one," he says, "with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in:" adding, with a fine touch of nature drawn from experience, "It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat."
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The gentleman in spectacles glanced around serenely; as though it was quite the thing for him to be wandering around in the woods at that unearthly hour; poked at the roof here and there with his cane, knocked up a few shingles that let more light in on the subject of his investigations, and came out again hastily as he heard the boys approach, and disappeared in a clump of spruces.
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"I had this knocked up for the lad o' purpose," said Uncle Abram proudly.
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"I'm about knocked up," said Bob, panting.
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"No; but we could have knocked up Tom Gardener and the other men, and gone ourselves."
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"Why, you are both regularly knocked up.--Dismount!" he cried, and he and his companion dropped from their saddles.
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I'm glad to see you can laugh like that, instead of being regularly knocked up with our troubles.
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Before long, however, my brother was nearly knocked up, and seeing this I proposed that he should remount, and that I should ride Toby's horse.
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As night was approaching, and our horses were too much knocked up to go further, we resolved to remain on the bank of the river till the morning.
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He had, I found, overcome with the poignancy of his feelings at the thought of my death, been knocked up, and had remained with Kepenau, whose camp he told me was concealed within the wood.
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"You shall have half a dozen of my men for those who are already knocked up," said Captain Rover.
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His horse at the end of three days, becoming completely knocked up, he dismounted and desired his companions to ride on, telling them he would follow; but they declined leaving him, declaring that lions were numerous, and that, though they would not attack a body of people, they would soon find out a single individual and destroy him.
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Most of them, however, were too much knocked up to exert themselves.
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Crawford then offered to go; but being much knocked up by his journey, he would be unable to start for a couple of days.
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However, they agreed that they had dined very well considering, and from that moment, though others occasionally knocked up, they were never off duty from sea-sickness.
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This provoked Jack not a little, as the wind was fair, and though pretty well knocked up, he was anxious to get under weigh immediately.
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Completely knocked up, he and Terence at last turned in, desiring to be called should the wind change, or any occurrence of importance take place.
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The work being accomplished, the men, pretty well knocked up, returned to the boat, where, however, a glass of grog apiece, and some pork and biscuit, soon set them right again.
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The men being amply supplied with cacao every day, without apparent fatigue performed forced marches which would have completely knocked up any European troops.
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As night came on there was a fresh breeze blowing, which knocked up a short chopping sea.
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On making inquiries I found that Mr Biddulph Stafford was sleeping at the hotel, and had not yet come out of his room, which convinced me that he had been knocked up the previous day by sea-sickness, and also that he did not know that we were trying to get ahead of him.
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Howbeit, _Ned_ desired me to keep my Mouth shut, my Eyes open, and to trust to his good Care; and, by Dint of some shrewd Pilotage, weathered the Strait; after which, our old Horse, whose Paces, to do him Justice, proved very easie, took longer Steps than anie other on the Road, by which Means we soon got quit of the Throng; onlie, we continuallie gained on fresh Parties,--some dreadfully overloaded, some knocked up alreadie, some baiting at the Roadside, and many of the poorer Sort erecting 'emselves rude Tents and Cabins under the Hedges.
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Their steeds, too, were giving evident signs of being knocked up, and they had to keep their sticks going to make the poor animals move forward.
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Though I wanted to go too, our father declared that we looked so much knocked up from our long tramp and sleepless nights, that we must turn in and get some rest, and he said that he would despatch Peter, who knew the country better than we did, for the purpose.
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Mr Tidey entered, looking pale and thoroughly knocked up, his dress torn and bespattered with mud.
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Mr Tidey was too much knocked up to set off immediately, so my father gave Dan and me permission to start away by daylight.
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But you are knocked up, Mike, and had better sleep on.
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Our men were pretty well knocked up with their long pull and march over the sand, and the country might soon be raised, and overwhelming forces sent against us.
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I wish that I could go with you, but I cannot get along as fast as I used to do, and my beasts are pretty well knocked up.
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Their steeds were pretty well knocked up with their long and rapid journey, but Lieutenant Graham, the officer in command, was most anxious to catch some of the men.
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It was heavy work, for the old ship was still rolling very much, and we were all pretty well knocked up with what we had gone through in the night.
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Some had died of fever, others had been killed fighting with the enemy, and many, knocked up by hard work and disease, would, I thought, never return, or, if they found their way home, it would be but to die.
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Had it not been for this assistance he would have knocked up long ago.
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"You are hungry and knocked up, my man.
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If this stranger proves to be a seaman he may give you some relief by doing duty on board; you've had a trying time of it, Owen, and it is a mercy you've not knocked up."
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"We pushed on, however," he continued, "rather faster than was prudent, and knocked up our horses so that they require a day's rest before proceeding further; and we must therefore impose ourselves on you as guests, unless you turn us out."
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The doctor, finding that we did not require much of his assistance, attended to Larry and the other men, who appeared far more knocked up than we were, and they were at once sent to their hammocks.
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The fellow whose pistol I had knocked up, however, had his cutlass uplifted to strike me down, when Larry, who was by my side, parried the blow with his cutlass, and, though he got a severe wound, he brought the man to the deck by a blow which he gave the next moment.
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In fact, we were thoroughly knocked up from the hard work we had gone through, and the little time we had had for rest.
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By this time we were all pretty well knocked up, and most of the men declared that they could pump no longer.
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There were two apprentices on board, who lived on the half-deck, and the doctor said that the first mate promised to have some berths knocked up for us with them.
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We went to the half-deck, where we found that the carpenter had knocked up some rough bunks, in which some mattresses and blankets had been placed.
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"The Chinamen by this time were so knocked up that they were scarcely able to exert themselves.
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Several went down in her, too much knocked up to exert themselves.
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All hands worked with a will, spelling each other, till we were almost knocked up.
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"Sir," said he, touching his hat, "I'm afraid we shall have to take to the boat, for the people are almost all knocked up; and, do all we can, the ship won't float much longer."
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So rapidly did we march, and so little sleep or rest did any of us enjoy, that I was almost knocked up; and Eva would have been unable to proceed, had she not been borne on a litter.
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"But our horses are knocked up, and we can go no distance to-night," I said.
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Alick, though he had held out so well when leading our small party, had knocked up altogether when his responsibilities were over, and was unfit to exert himself in any way; all he could do, indeed, was to step into his cariole and be dragged along over the snow.
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With many men killed, and still greater numbers wounded, and the rest pretty well knocked up with their exertions, it was difficult work to keep the pumps going, by which alone the ship could be saved from going down.
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It was very hard and trying work, and they were well-nigh knocked up by the evening, when they had to return to their dirty prisons.
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The party were pretty well knocked up by their march to Bridport and back, and there was little drilling that evening, except among the new levies; but early the next morning the drum beat to arms, the regiments were formed under their respective leaders, and the Duke, putting himself at the head, passed them all in review.
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Both their horses were knocked up, and they themselves were much fatigued and desperately hungry.
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The pumps were manned, but the crew were soon knocked up.
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The lieutenant on seeing us, shaking off the grasp of the two men who held him, knocked up the blade of another, and seizing the sword of a fourth, sprang towards us.
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It was about this time that several of our camels knocked up; and seeing that they would not live, the sheikh gave the order for them to be killed.
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The rest of the men, who were pretty well knocked up, seemed highly pleased at the proposal.
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At length we reached the hill where we had determined to make a stand, for we were so knocked up by this time, that we could not have proceeded further without rest.
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You must be pretty well knocked up, sir," he said.
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Had the gale continued, I believe that we should all of us really have been knocked up, but happily we very quickly ran out of it, and once more we had smooth water and a fair breeze.
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The rectangular wrought iron straps are knocked up over the joint after the two pieces engage.
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If shrinkage takes place in the drawer bottom and it leaves the groove in the drawer front, the screws are slackened, the drawer bottom is knocked up into the groove, and the screws again inserted.
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As for Romer, he never woke till we pushed him hard, he was so completely knocked up.
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He now was mounted on the Major's spare horse; that, in case the Major's was knocked up, he might change it, for Omrah's weight was a mere nothing.
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_(lazily)_ I really must give up walking, I'm quite knocked up.
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The British officer seems very easily knocked up.
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"I wish the men were not so knocked up."
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They knocked up Mr Trevor at his private house in the middle of the night, and put the document into his hands.
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But there were other women, with whom, before his departure for the East, he had been on terms of casual acquaintance; the daughters of City friends, girls who lived in Kensington or Hampstead, girls with brothers who had knocked up against the young men in athletic or journalistic circles; an actress or two; good-hearted, ordinary young women for the most part, commonplace in spite of suburban leanings towards "culture," and in many cases entirely out of sympathy with the aims and ideals of both Owen and his friend.
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"Oh, I'm _so_ sorry you don't like it!" said the Inca princess, with a little look of humble disappointment which was infinitely more heartrending than the smile; "but do you know, father, I have ridden so long in this costume, and in the gentleman fashion, that I feel quite sure--at least, I think--I should be utterly knocked up the first day if I were to begin a long hard journey in the ladies' position.
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Arriving one afternoon, famishing and almost knocked up, at the village, he went in despair to the inn door, and began to tell his sorrowful tale.
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Moreover, I'm knocked up as well as hungry, an' ye seem such a good hand that it would be a pity to interfere wid ye.
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"The truth is I'm so knocked up that I scarce know what I'm about."
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Even Chimo was knocked up.
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Old Moggy made no objection to our plan, so we set out the next day with an additional dog purchased from the Indians in order to make our team strong enough to haul the old woman when she got knocked up with walking.
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When I recovered my self-possession a little, I threw forward my gun and fired; but owing to my endeavouring to hold the reins at the same time, I nearly blew off one of my horse's ears, and only knocked up the dust about six yards ahead of us!