The 1,273 occurrences of knocked up

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Their pace grew slower as the animals became thoroughly knocked up, and at last could not be urged beyond a walk.

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Before we had gone half our journey the horses knocked up.

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He had brought with him a few friends--a couple of subs, two or three senior snotties and the Captain's secretary, a brace of stewards with the luncheon baskets, and the cutter's crew, who carried between them two large trellis-work screens which the carpenter had knocked up for him.

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I may be a little knocked up perhaps; that's all."

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I don't suppose I shall sleep much myself, but I am a little knocked up, and shall be glad of some sort of rest.

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I am knocked up with over exertion and excitement--that's all; my strength will come back to me sooner or later if I lie quietly here."

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All along this road we overtook parties of coolies laden with creels of silk cocoons, whose destination is the big silk factory at Srinagar, small clouds of hot red dust rising into the still air, knocked up by the shuffling tread of their grass-shod feet.

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Mr. Cossey hev knocked up four brace and a half, and you hev only got a brace.

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The soldier was harassed and knocked up.

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Avice is quite knocked up to-day, and her mother has kept her in bed, where she is very happy with her Jane.

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One of the officers on a shooting excursion lost his way and got entangled in a mangrove forest, where the ground being a soft mud, travelling became very laborious, particularly in a temperature of 85 degrees and without water; fatigue hastened by thirst, at length quite knocked up my shipmate, who threw himself exhausted on the ground.

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rendus : knocked up, overdone.

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One man knocked up.

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One man knocked up.

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We reached the river at half-past five, being all of us pretty well knocked up with heat, fatigue, and thirst: one of our party, I heard afterwards, drank nearly TWO QUARTS of water at a draught.

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Here, however, the cheerful excitement of our pleasant and shady walk through Lucky Valley having gone off, the men felt the effects of their long day's march, and were all more or less knocked up.

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Then Bill Jones went back to bed, and Joe Barlcomb, arter sitting down on the doorstep to rest 'imself, went off and knocked up Peter Lamb.

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Then Bill Jones went back to bed, and Joe Barlcomb, arter sitting down on the doorstep to rest 'imself, went off and knocked up Peter Lamb.

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Stephen knocked up the end of the board with the mallet, and then he got the wedge under and pried.

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"Not one of these divisional huts, but a thing we knocked up ourselves.

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The chaises stopped at the door, which was thrown open by an outrider who knocked up the locker with his whip handle.

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Ammalát knocked up two horses, and left two of his noúkers on the road, so that at the end of the second day he was not far from Khounzákh.

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"Well," I said, "it's rather a large question--but I used to think, both at school and at Oxford, that many of the men who were rather disapproved of, that did quite bad things, and tried experiments, and knocked up against nastiness of various kinds, but who were brave in their way and kind, and not mean or spiteful or fault-finding, were more the sort of people that the force--or whatever it is, behind the world--was trying to produce than many of the virtuous people.

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He shouted: "Sure, and I've knocked up and down this rotten old world all my life, a rolling stone with never enough to bless myself with.

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Everybody said he had knocked up Swan and Mrs. Swan at six o'clock one morning, and sent the former to call up Matthew the coachman, who also lived out of the house.

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"Lillie is entirely knocked up by the affair yesterday; she had a terrible headache this morning," said John.

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On November 10th, or upwards of five months after leaving Rockingham Bay, having made less than 400 miles in a direct line towards their destination, and three of the party having been completely knocked up, and the remainder in a feeble state; nineteen of their horses dead, and their provisions reduced to one sheep, forty-six pounds of flour, and less than one pound of tea--Mr. Kennedy resolved to form a light party consisting of himself, three men, and the aboriginal Jackey-Jackey, and push on for Cape York, distant about 150 miles, to procure assistance for the remainder, and save them from impending death by the combined influences of sickness, exhaustion, and starvation.

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So I rushed off to the Baths in one of the _bagherini_ (as the little light gigs of the country are called) which had conveyed the parties to the ground, and knocked up Sir Thomas.

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Yesterday we took the child of a friend of ours to a morning performance of the pantomime, and are utterly knocked up in consequence.

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In the course of conversation, he told her he was acting as assistant minister of the parish, and he explained how far he had travelled in pursuit of game, how weary he was, and how completely knocked up he was.

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"Quite right!" and as the newcomer sank into the chair he offered-- "My dear, you are sadly knocked up!

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"She looks quite knocked up."

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The coast being clear, Julius went down, encountering nothing worse than the old butler, who came in while he was cutting cold beef, and to whom he said, "Lady Rosamond is rather knocked up; I am going to take her something up-stairs."

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When we came home at four o'clock, Cecil was quite knocked up, excited and hysterical.

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"Quite knocked up," he sleepily answered.

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Nick being of too hot a temperament was soon knocked up, and Mike won the race by half a mile; from which circumstance the place was named, and Mike Mills rendered immortal.

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The plain extended a great distance to the westward, and in crossing it one of our horses knocked up and could travel no longer; Mr. Kennedy ordered him to be bled, and we not liking to lose the blood, boiled it as a blood-pudding with a little flour, and in the situation we were, we enjoyed it very much.

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Lord Gruffen was arrested for having knocked up against a soldier.

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There were no signs of a beaten road, and we were obliged to ride over all obstacles; a course of proceeding which so tired our horses, that in half an hour's time they were quite knocked up, so that we had to proceed on foot.

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From this day to the twentieth I placed shelves, and knocked up nails on the posts to hang every thing up that could be hung up: and now I began to be in some order within doors.

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Four camels were knocked up during this day's march: on such occasions, the Arabs wait in savage impatience in the rear, with their knives in their hands, ready, on the signal of the owner, to plunge them into the poor animal, and bear off a portion of the flesh for their evening meal.

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You look quite knocked up.

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He leaped from his horse, and nodding his head, exclaimed--"Noúker Mémet Rasoúl has knocked up the old cropped[21] stallion, in trying to leap him over a ditch seven paces wide."

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We have not lost more than we generally do in quarters, though the men have been, terribly knocked up, and well they may be, with the horrible marches they have made.

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Their balls came whistling in upon us on all sides, and knocked up the dust like drops of rain, but no damage was done; they then galloped off.

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I am so tired mit der blaying all night, dat dis morning I am all knocked up."

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And I'm going down to Woking to-morrow to spend the week-end with a girl I met here who's knocked up in munition-work.

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"Oh!" said Rachel, "Mrs. Tams said the hall clock had stopped; that must have been when Mrs. Maldon knocked up against it."

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Just then a good old packhorse, named Rattler, knocked up, and I reluctantly gave orders to leave him behind, when Whiting, the old guardsman, volunteered to remain with him, and bring him on after he had rested: this in the face of both hunger and danger I duly appreciated, and long remembered, to his advantage.

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Here our horses began to be quite knocked up, chiefly from want of water; we therefore dismounted and dragged them on, for I hoped by taking the direction of Mr. Oxley's line of route, as shown on his map, that the branches would soon concentrate in one united channel.

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After travelling fifteen miles one of them rode by Woods, who carried the theodolite, knocked up when we were far from the Lachlan.

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"I persevered in this system for a few days, and then tried its efficacy at night, thinking that, when knocked up from their beds, people would be sure to be more impressed with the importance of a doctor in such general request.

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And thus, suffering cold and short commons, and making their way for days through frosty plains over ice and snow, amid deep ravines and over lofty hills, they at length reached Nijnei-Kolimsk, though not without being almost wholly knocked up, especially Kolina, who was totally unused to such fatigues.

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We managed to slip quickly through the lumber in the dark and knocked up against a ladder.

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To a man without provision, and knocked up in the desert, a piece of stone or of gold, in his scrip, is all one.

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I must say she looked pretty knocked up!--I suppose by the dance?"

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I am quite knocked up with cold and fever, but sick as I may be, I can never lie by and be quiet, the demands of duty being inexorable and incessant.

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"I felt," writes Captain Semmes, "great relief to have him on board, as I was quite knocked up with cold and fever, and was too ill-qualified physically for exposure to the weather and watching through the night.

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Then I noticed the whing of bullets, and dust spots knocked up, and felt the same sort of feeling that one has while waiting to start for a race, only with an added chill and thrill.

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Immediately started back to lake, horse knocked up; obliged to camp with him and arrived at camp on Wednesday 2nd at 6 a.m., missing party not returned: thought I would never see them again, and an awful blow it would be to me, in the first place the loss of my two best men and the four camels I had so much reliance in.

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One of the bullocks did not arrive in camp; he knocked up and charged the men and they were consequently obliged to leave him.

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Middleton's mare Counterfeit knocked up and he had to stay with her.

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Obliged to leave another horse (Governor) in the creek, fairly knocked up.

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Started at 9.10 along the bed of the creek still about east by north; at 10.35 three miles the creek receives a considerable tributary from the south-east, in fact it is the main channel and the one we are in the tributary, then it flowed north 15 degrees west to north or nearly so till 11.45 when the horses knocked up, must camp and give them the rest of the day and probably tomorrow; on this latter course about two miles; distance travelled between five and six miles.

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Three more horses knocked up and obliged to be left behind, namely Bawley, Fidget, and Camel (mare) although good travelling.

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Two of the horses nearly knocked up.

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Maitland so ill he can hardly hang on the horse's back and the horse Jack knocked up; killed him during the afternoon; although a bag of bones he will make soup for a few days and give Maitland a chance of recruiting, and will be a means of refreshing the horses and camels.

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Went about three-quarters of a mile on this course and two of the horses becoming knocked up I am obliged to halt.

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In its present state no dray in the world could pass by it; first of all we got one of the camels down in a creek, next one of the horses rolled over into the creek and we had to make a road for them at last to descend into the creek; now into and along the bed of the river; now up the steep banks and then up stony hills to head, or more easily cross the ravines, which was very trying to our animals, and finally completely knocked up one of the weak horses which was with much persuasion got to the camp in the afternoon after the camp was formed.

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We got up the opposite side pretty easily and followed it down, crossing a deep ravine and stony ridge, and recrossed at two and three-quarter miles on a bearing north of east, and crossed the river back again, very steep on the side we crossed from but good getting out, and came over ridgy, and latterly, basalt country, on bearing of about east-south-east, and camped on the opposite side of the river at three miles on last bearing, where there was a suitable place in the bed of the river for killing one of our horses which was completely knocked up.

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One of the horses completely knocked up, and as we can observe no recent traces of stock on the river made up my mind to kill him, spell a day, and carry as much of his flesh, boiled, with us as will last a couple of days.

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And ain't you regular knocked up to see me a Baron?

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On the 27th April[77] he was apparently at the lowest ebb, and wrote in his Journal the last words he ever penned--"Knocked up quite, and remain == recover sent to buy milch goats.

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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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I knocked up the landlord of the 'White Hart,' and, turning into bed, slept my first peaceful sleep since my trouble.

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As the malignity of the devil would have it, we were kept abroad _two years longer_ than our time, Mr. Pitt (England not being so tame then as she is now[7]) having knocked up a dust with Spain about Nootka Sound.

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Our carriage not come; our horses, mules, &c. knocked up; ourselves fatigued.

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As he dug, he knocked up the lumps and picked out the stone.

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Occasionally the worm turned, and then a good many articles of furniture were overset; and the Misses Hope, who resided beneath us, knocked up through the ceiling with the tongs, whereupon the landlady and her daughter came in armed with the poker and a long-handled broom to promote peace.

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Sometimes our friends called with their own latest solutions; and then there was such a pother of discussion, and so great a noise, that the old lady beneath foolishly knocked up a telephonic message to stop--foolishly, for that was business much more in our line than in hers.

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'Your mother's knocked up,' said John drily.

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The master of Mellor had heard the news from William, the man-servant, at half-past seven, and had instantly knocked up his guest, by way of sharing the excitement with which his own feeble frame was throbbing.

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He appeared very ambitious to learn to write; and one of the Attornies got a Board knocked up at a Window on the Top of a Staircase; and that was his Desk, where he sat and wrote after Copies of Court and other Hands the Clerks gave him.

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"Three days of east wind had knocked up a heavy swell: but the wind was blowing a moderate gale only--nothing to account for a big ship (as she was already reported to be) finding herself on Menawhidden.

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But the Water-snail begged for a delay of twice seven days, saying that he felt knocked up after ascending the rapids, and the delay was granted accordingly.

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About them were soldiers, singly or in little groups, from all the regiments, a weary, foot-sore crew, knocked up at the beginning of the retreat, each man straggling on at his own sweet will whithersoever the path that he was on might chance to lead him.

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He was completely knocked up with fatigue, but the confidence that they were now advancing with a definite end in view served to sustain him.

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At last they were to have a sight of those Prussians who, if the newspapers were to be believed, were knocked up by their long marches, decimated by sickness, starving, and in rags, and every man's heart beat high with the prospect of annihilating them at a single blow.

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"Comrades, comrades--" He knocked up the soldiers' guns, and raising his eyes, said entreatingly: "Come, be reasonable.

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Lapoulle hesitated a moment, dimly conscious of the impropriety there was in the indulgence when so many poor devils were in such sore distress, but he was so knocked up with fatigue, so terribly hungry and thirsty!

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But, quivering with excitement, she jumped to her feet and knocked up the weapon, whose charge was wasted on the air.

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It was about three in the morning when they reached a little Belgian village, where they knocked up a worthy farmer, who at once opened his barn to them; they snuggled among the hay and slept soundly until morning.

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The animal seemed to please him; he was knocked up, but showed signs of strength and endurance.

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Universelle de Genève._[77] M. Pictet left Geneva in the middle of July to visit the caves, but found himself so much knocked up by the first day's work, that he sent on his grandson to the Glacière of the Brezon, and gave up the attempt himself.

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"But one day, during maneuvers, there came to the camp a grey-faced man, a newspaper correspondent, and young Shrike knocked up a friendship with him.

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He had lost his way, his horse was knocked up, and he had been guided by the only light which he had seen.

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But Jack Paterson knocked up the lad's arm, and caught Tom round the waist, dragging him forcibly away.

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"Somewhere about a quarter after midnight I was knocked up.

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The second message told how a garage keeper was knocked up at Ashburton, just after midnight, in order that petrol might be obtained for a motor bicycle.

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Mrs. Penfold's rather knocked up with nursing her sister.

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