The 1,273 occurrences of knocked up

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Others knocked up the dust in the path and a shell shrieked a terrible warning over their heads.

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"I was knocked up; had fits, and all that sort of thing; took these three fellows all their time on Sunday to hold me down!"

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Upon his return he appeared much knocked up.

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The plains even are so dry, so hard, so full of deep crevices (that are not perceived until their brink is reached), that the best hounds or harriers would soon be knocked up, and would have their feet blistered, nay lamed, for a long time.

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Upon his return he appeared much knocked up.

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The plains even are so dry, so hard, so full of deep crevices (that are not perceived until their brink is reached), that the best hounds or harriers would soon be knocked up, and would have their feet blistered, nay lamed, for a long time.

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Upon his return he appeared much knocked up.

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The plains even are so dry, so hard, so full of deep crevices (that are not perceived until their brink is reached), that the best hounds or harriers would soon be knocked up, and would have their feet blistered, nay lamed, for a long time.

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It's a question of a fact, a positive, indisputable fact; and that fact is this: in all the past ten years, I have not yet knocked up against an adversary of your capacity.

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Once Jim turned towards his sister, saying, "Are you quite knocked up, old girl?"

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I'm pretty well knocked up, I can tell you.

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'I should call it the consequence of being dragged out with a sore heart,' returned Nuttie--a little speech she had prepared ever since she had seen how knocked up her mother was.

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These two associates engaged themselves in the penalty of six thousand pounds, to run one chaise and four against another, three times round the course; and our adventurer had the satisfaction of seeing his antagonist distanced in the first and second heat; but, all of a sudden, one of the horses of his machine was knocked up, by which accident the victory was ravished almost from his very grasp, and he was obliged to endure the damage and the scorn.

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Thence to my Lord's, and Mr. Moore being in bed I staid not, but with a link walked home and got thither by 12 o'clock, knocked up my boy, and put myself to bed.

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Thence to my Lord's, and Mr. Moore being in bed I staid not, but with a link walked home and got thither by 12 o'clock, knocked up my boy, and put myself to bed.

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This morning, about two or three o'clock, knocked up in our back yard, and rising to the window, being moonshine, I found it was the constable and his watch, who had found our back yard door open, and so came in to see what the matter was.

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This morning, about two or three o'clock, knocked up in our back yard, and rising to the window, being moonshine, I found it was the constable and his watch, who had found our back yard door open, and so came in to see what the matter was.

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About one in the morning I was knocked up by my mayds to come to my wife who is very ill.

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About one in the morning I was knocked up by my mayds to come to my wife who is very ill.

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So knocked up my people, and to bed.

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So knocked up my people, and to bed.

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Thence to my Lord's, and Mr. Moore being in bed I staid not, but with a link walked home and got thither by 12 o'clock, knocked up my boy, and put myself to bed.

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This morning, about two or three o'clock, knocked up in our back yard, and rising to the window, being moonshine, I found it was the constable and his watch, who had found our back yard door open, and so came in to see what the matter was.

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About one in the morning I was knocked up by my mayds to come to my wife who is very ill.

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So knocked up my people, and to bed.

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My 'oss is knocked up, 'e is, and 'is blessed old legs is agivin' way under 'im!"

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His horse was knocked up, so that he could not go on to a larger and better-appointed inn than this, which was five miles nearer town; but when he saw the name over the door and the host and hostess, he was reconciled to the inferior accommodation.

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No wonder he's knocked up."

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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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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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It was a comfort to Mrs Bradshaw to be able at once to discover what it was that had knocked up Elizabeth; she did not rest easily until she had settled upon a cause for every ailment or illness in the family.

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To prevent his sleeping on deck, 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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Knocked up, I suppose, by your journey to town.

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I remember the reason that I was vexed was because he believed a report that I had knocked up against a foreign potentate in Rotten Row for a bet, which was not only untrue but ridiculous, and I was getting a little impatient of the cattishness and credulity of the West-end of London.

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The soil was so rotten and yielding, that the team knocked up early; indeed, it was a matter of surprise to me that they should not have failed before.

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The soil was so rotten and yielding, that the team knocked up early; indeed, it was a matter of surprise to me that they should not have failed before.

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Cassandra'll be knocked up.

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Cassandra'll be knocked up.

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He knocked up their weapons and stood between them, puffing his cigarette leisurely.

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Suddenly Romara knocked up the rifles of the couching Swiss; he yelled to the houses to stop firing.

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He knocked up their weapons and stood between them, puffing his cigarette leisurely.

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Suddenly Romara knocked up the rifles of the couching Swiss; he yelled to the houses to stop firing.

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Cassandra'll be knocked up.

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He knocked up their weapons and stood between them, puffing his cigarette leisurely.

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Suddenly Romara knocked up the rifles of the couching Swiss; he yelled to the houses to stop firing.

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Their backs and the feet of the cattle were in a woeful plight from its effects: one horse was lost, and a bull and several head of cattle completely knocked up.

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Four of the cattle that had been knocked up yesterday were sent for before starting, and fetched--the cattle counted and found correct.

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A cow had to be abandoned knocked up.

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Here the Leader determined to halt for a few days to recruit the strength of the horses and cattle, the feed being good; many of the cattle were lame, two of the hacks were knocked up, and several of the pack-horses had very sore backs, so that a "spell" was a necessity.

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Leave the Staaten--Half the horses away--Fresh troubles--Mule Lost--Sambo knocked up--Search for mule--Perplexity-- "Lucifer" goes mad--Final attempt to recover him--Marine Plains --Search for Deceiver--Found dead--Salt Lagoon--Arbor Creek-- Country improves--Good Camp--Eulah Creek--The Brothers attacked --Reach the Mitchell--Cow poisoned--Battle of the Mitchell--An ambush--Extent of flooded Country--Reach head of tide--Heavy rain--A "Blank run"--Leave the Mitchell--Good Coast Country-- Balourgah Creek--Blue grass--Banksia--The Eugenia--Green Ant --Hearsey Creek--Holroyd--Creek Dunsmuir Creek--Thalia Creek --Black boy chased by natives--Another encounter--Cattle scattered by thunder-storm--Rainy Season--Macleod Creek-- Kendall Creek.

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Picking up his trail at last night's camp, where they left the three recovered horses, they ran it four miles up the river and came upon him in a patch of scrub; they headed him after a hard gallop and endeavoured to drive him down to the other horses, but all to no purpose, they knocked up their horses and were obliged to abandon the pursuit.

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Two more horses, Rasper and N'gress were found knocked up.

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The latter were at length so completely knocked up that it was necessary to leave some of them at one side of a swamp, the party carrying their packs and loads about a quarter-of-a-mile on to a dry ridge on the other.

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Poor "Nell Gwynne's" foal knocked up to-day, after having kept up bravely since the mare's death.

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Two of the horses "Tabinga," and "Pussey," had to be left about three miles back from the camp with their saddles, utterly knocked up.

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Three hours were consumed in cutting their way through the last of the vine scrubs, when they camped on the outside, three of the horses being completely knocked up.

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by N. The horses knocked up a few miles after starting.

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After 11 miles of this kind of travelling they camped, the horses completely knocked up, the men in not much better condition, having had to drag the horses out of bogs several times, besides cutting through the hanging vines of the scrubs.

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Chose Site for Station--Native Method of Using Tobacco--Return for the Cattle--The Lakes--Reach the Camp--Another Horse Dead --The Whole Party Cross the Jardine--Raft Upset--Cargo Saved-- Deserted by Guides--Final Start for Settlement--Another Horse Abandoned--Horses Knocked Up--Cattle Missing--Choppagynya-- Reach Vallack Point--Conclusion.

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Three horses were knocked up during the day, which prevented their gotting as far as intended.

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But as he deliberately drew down on the preacher Blicky leaped forward and knocked up the gun.

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But before their steel had more than clashed, Egil came between and knocked up their blades with his own.

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He knocked up a solicitor, with whom he was acquainted.

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The proceedings ended by brutus being loosed and set between two long lines of men with lumps of clay, and pelted and knocked down, and knocked up again, and driven, bruised, battered and bleeding, out of that part of the camp.

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Great excitement too was caused by the announcement, that the Balliol stroke had knocked up, or knocked down, or done some thing which Mr. Verdant Green concluded he ought not to have done; and that the Brasenose bow had been seen with a cigar in his mouth, and also eating pastry in Hall, -things shocking in themselves, and quite contrary to all training principles.

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Missus bin finissem milk all about," he said When the lubras were brought back, THEY said THEY had "knocked up longa scrub," and finished the floor under protest.

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"Heard the missus had knocked up?" he gasped.

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But Billy and Jimmy had "knocked up longa a carry water," and Cheon watched them settle down to smoke, on the verge of tears.

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

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Since they would not run their loss was heavy, and it was a strange sight--the last vivid impression of the day--to watch them struggling through the deep sand, with the dust knocked up into clouds by the bullets which struck all round them.

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you are quite knocked up.'

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So he knocked up an ostler at the nearest inn, and ordered out a gig.

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The horse that hid himself yesterday knocked up to-day, and Gibson remained to bring him on; he came four hours after us, though we only left him three miles away.

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We kept away as much as possible off the rough slopes of the range, and got to Glen Helen at night, but old Buggs knocked up, and we had to lead, beat, and drive him on foot, so that it was very late before we got to the glen.

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The next morning Formby knocked up, and lay down, and we had to leave him in the scrub.

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At this point Gibson's horse "knocked up," and shortly afterwards died.

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I could see the poor boy was knocked up, and felt little better myself; to go on did not guarantee water, and might end in disaster, so after a short rest we retraced our steps.

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Warri and I were ahead for in tracking it is better to be well in advance--riding and walking in turn until Highlander knocked up and had to be led.

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This was a point whereon I was most anxious to obtain information; but, as my horses were knocked up, it appeared to me, that Mr. Poole, with fresh horses, would find no difficulty in gaining a distance sufficiently great to enable me to act on the knowledge he might acquire of the distant interior.

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At this stage of our journey, I was the only one of the party who was not ill; Mr. Browne and all the men were suffering, added to which, the men were fairly knocked up.

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The horses Morgan and Mack had ridden were too knocked up for further work, but I sent the latter on my own horse with a leather bottle that had been left behind by the party, full of water for poor Bawley, if he should still find him alive.

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"He would have got me if you hadn't knocked up his gun-hand.

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As we were slowly winding our way among the loose rocks, Brown's horse got knocked up, and we were compelled to encamp.

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Another of our horses became knocked up, and compelled us to encamp very early in the day, and, as they were all much exhausted, I allowed them to feed at large, without taking the usual precaution of keeping two tethered, in the event of being surprised by the natives.

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The poor brute was fairly knocked up and incapable of going any farther, even without a load.

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We crossed two or three more watercourses; and continued the course pointed out by the native, until it became very late, and I found myself compelled to look for water; particularly as our bullock showed evident symptoms of becoming knocked up.

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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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The horse on which Malcolm had ridden was knocked up from the speed at which he had travelled, and, ordering it to be carefully tended till his return, he obtained a fresh horse and again set out.

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Carey did not fulfil her intentions of going into matters of business with her brother-in-law that day, for little Armine, always delicate, had been so much knocked up by his course of adventures, that he needed her care all the rest of the day.

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"He has locked Rob up in his study, and here's Joe, for Aunt Ellen is quite knocked up, and they want the house to be very quiet."

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However, she only said—- "It was high time that you came away; you were quite knocked up with being left a week alone with Lucas in that horrid place.

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I believe she has been a good deal knocked up between the heat and the anxiety; there was no making her eat or sleep.

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Carey did not fulfil her intentions of going into matters of business with her brother-in-law that day, for little Armine, always delicate, had been so much knocked up by his course of adventures, that he needed her care all the rest of the day.

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"He has locked Rob up in his study, and here's Joe, for Aunt Ellen is quite knocked up, and they want the house to be very quiet."

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However, she only said—- "It was high time that you came away; you were quite knocked up with being left a week alone with Lucas in that horrid place.

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I believe she has been a good deal knocked up between the heat and the anxiety; there was no making her eat or sleep.

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