The 1,273 occurrences of knocked up

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Muskets in the crowd were here levelled at the speaker, but were knocked up by the more peaceable of his hearers.

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Gervais's lackey started forward and knocked up Yeux-gris's arm.

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We halted at five A.M. on the 1st of August, the officers and men being quite knocked up, and having made by our account only two miles of southing over a road not less than five in length.

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Mr. Prenter, who stood beside him, had knocked up the barrel so that the bullet sped over the heads of the crowd.

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she was so sorry, but it would have frightened herself to death if the carriage had upset with her, and no wonder Miss Miriam was knocked up entirely."

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Quite near our lodgings was the house where this famous African traveller lived and practised blood-letting as a surgeon, and where dreams of the tent in which he was once a prisoner and of dark faces came to him at night, while the door at which his horse was tethered as he went to see Sir Walter Scott, and the window out of which he put his head when knocked up in the night, were all shown as objects of interest to visitors.

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Shorthouse felt his arm knocked up before he had time to turn, and the same second Garvey, who had somehow managed to burst open the window came between him and the trembling Marx.

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One of the most lovable things about this man--is it not in all men?--was, that with all his shrewdness and cleverness, and his having been knocked up and down the world for so many years, he still kept a directness and simpleness of character almost child-like.

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He's quite knocked up, poor old chap, and had to get leave of absence; and I've made him promise to come and stay here for a good part of the time, to rest."

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"A little knocked up."

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At last even I know what it is to be too hot, and am quite knocked up with my short experience.

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He is still rather knocked up."

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And we talked of the Church Congress until the fly came, only he seemed dreadfully tired, quite knocked up.

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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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Of the fighting on the way I can give you no account, as I was knocked up with a bad chill and had to go with the ambulance.

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The night was quiet, the troops completely knocked up by the fatigues of the day, the distance we came (to the right) was certainly six miles, and that by which the infantry moved to the left, was still more.

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Mr Prothero, with no small noise and bluster, knocked up the inmates of the little inn of that little place, and succeeded in getting Gladys ensconced by a cheerful fire in the kitchen.

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They knocked up houses as cheaply, and plainly, and rapidly as possible, content if they kept out wind and weather.

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I persisted in his trying to go on, and managed to get him along several times, until I saw that he was almost knocked up, when he said he could not carry his swag, and threw all he had away.

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I was very nearly knocked up myself, but ascended the range and had a very extensive view.

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Windich went on the only horse not knocked up in order to find water for the horses.

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I am nearly knocked up again to-night; my boots have hurt my feet, but I am not yet disheartened.

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The horses were very tired, not having had anything to eat for the last two or three days; and some showed signs of giving in; in fact, all weak and knocked up, and we had to handle them very carefully.

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I don't know nothing about Melton Mowbray, sir, but the last time he came through here on his road to Bristol, he was in one of his own rattle-trap yellows, and had such a load--his wife, a nurse, and eight children inside; himself, his son, and an apple-tree on the dickey--that the horses knocked up half-way and... _Jorrocks_.

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Of the three men from Cumberland, one had utterly knocked up, and the other two had turned mutinous.

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I am told, the moment St. George arrives, that I am to be tumbled out of this ship; as the Ville de Paris is going to Plymouth, to be paid, and the Earl will hoist his flag here: and if I am as fortunate in getting a fresh-painted cabin, (which is probable) I shall be knocked up.

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If I had depended upon that island, for supplies for the fleet, we must all have been knocked up, long ago; for, Sir Richard Bickerton sailed from Malta, the same day I left Portsmouth.

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Plunging into the wood, the hard-pressed beast knocked up another stag, and took possession of his lair, but was speedily roused again by Nicholas and the chief huntsman.

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I'm knocked up about this, for there's never been trouble between my father and me before, and I can't give in.

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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) having knocked up a dust with Spain about Nootka Sound.

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At this time there were about five of our people upon the beach, and the boat lying afloat, with her stern close to the shore, and the sailors lying on their oars: Mr. Bradley, who was in the stern of the boat, seeing the opportunity good, gave the signal for securing them; in a moment their heels were knocked up, and they were tumbled into the boat, followed by those who secured them, and the boat pulled immediately off.

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"That's all one's reward for trying to save you from jars when you were knocked up and unhappy.

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I had just had supper, and was going up into Hugh Lupus's tower completely knocked up, when, passing Sperver's room, whose door was half open, shouts and cries of joy reached my ears.

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The horses, badly knocked up after the rush through to Windhuk, had had opportunity to mend a bit.

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The crack of a rifle followed, and a bullet knocked up a little dust at least fifty yards short of them.

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"Pick them up, you beggar!" he cried to Nikolai, for it was he who had knocked up against him.

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Yes, you are knocked up, and have had nothing to eat, and you'll only spoil your work, as you did the other day.'

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The two infantry battalions and mountain battery, detailed to guard the left flank, knocked up against the Free State Army under Cronje (which was seen in the forenoon by the main body of General White's force, coming over Walker's Hoek) on what is known now as Surprise Hill, and which place is situated a little above and nearer Ladysmith than Nicholson's Nek.

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So they hove, an' poo'd, an' grunted, an' thrutch't, till they geet it set down i'th parlour; an' they pretended to be quite knocked up wi' th' job.

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"Well," said their leader, "Reilly has knocked up our game for this night.

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"Because he is knocked up, after a fit of drink, and I cannot be just so cool, under such an insult, as to command patience to wait.

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In point of fact, I did not intend to see you to-day, but to send him with the message; but, as I said, he was knocked up for a time, and you know my natural impatience.

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The match is knocked up, I tell you--and it must be knocked up.

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That's all knocked up; the girl won't have him, because she is attached to his brother, and because his brother is attached to her.

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Solemn assignations of long promise, rustic courtships, and earnest match-makings, were all knocked up, unless in case of those who availed themselves of the early part of the day.

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"I am fairly knocked up, I admit," said M'Carthy--"in fact, I am more jaded than I ever was in my life."

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"Why, if you insist upon it, I'll go," replied Finnerty, and four friends about you will be betther and safer than one; but in troth, to tell you the truth, Mr. M'Carthy, I'm a'most fairly knocked up myself, havin' been down the counthry and through the hills the greater part of the day.

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"No, Miss Julia; but the truth is, he's a poor cur of a creature that's not able to undertake a man's task at all; he's lyin' knocked up in Frank Finnerty's; moanin' and groanin' an' yowlin', like a sick hound; I had to carry or drag him over half the mountains; for, from the blessed hour of twelve o'clock this day, he wasn't able to put a foot undher him, an' he did nothing but blasphayme' an' curse every one he knew; your fathers and brothers, your sisther, and mother, and yourself; he cursed and blasphaymed you all, helther skelther; I could bear all, Miss.

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"It is good," thought he, "to have that affair settled, an' all expectation of her marriage with him knocked up.

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"Don't be too sure," replied Kate, "that it is knocked up; don't now, mind my words; an' take care that, instead of knockin' it up, you haven't knocked yourselves down.

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The gentleman could not stand this, but laughed so heartily that the argument was fairly knocked up.

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Today I found myself completely knocked up, and felt certain that I could not for many days longer bear up against such continued fatigues.

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I determined therefore to halt here for breakfast; indeed the horses were so completely knocked up that they were incapable of travelling any further.

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As we were preparing to start this morning one of the ponies was found to be so knocked up as to be unable to proceed; I therefore abandoned it, though, I fear, in a state too far gone to recover; but if perfect rest and abundance of good feed and water could effect a restoration it had still a fair chance.

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Mrs. Crawford is a bit knocked up over it.

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He whirled about, on guard, and as the man struck again, lunging heavily in his intoxication, Billy knocked up the fist as it came.

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I remember how on an occasion when the shelling was very heavy one man engaged himself in making soup as coolly as if nothing was happening until the earth knocked up by the shells began to drop into the mess-tin, when he gave us his opinion of the Boches in his own forcible vernacular.

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'I am not a bit knocked up,'--and, in rather a choky voice, 'I am not crying; I never cry before people; only I am a little tired.

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I was sorry that he should think that I was so easily knocked up; but it was not over-fatigue, nor yet his scolding, that had brought the tears to my eyes.

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'I tell him he must have a change after Christmas; he looks knocked up, and a trifle thin.

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It had the sacred quality of any recognition of the truth.... Well, he was telling them how he had gone up to de Cayagun, and they had knocked up a notary and made him draft a deed of sale, which he had posted to his agents without reading.

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I found that a man of the name of Charley Woods was much knocked up; he was a supporter of the eight or nine miles a day system, and had a very heavy load with no portion of which could I induce him to part; he however insisted on sitting down every half mile and detaining the party, and as I found that they got more worn out and weaker, and the impression in favour of long rests and short marches became much stronger, I thought it more prudent to acquiesce for the present.

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In crossing the vestibule the husband knocked up against some dandy, who claimed that he had been jostled.

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In crossing the vestibule the husband knocked up against some dandy, who claimed that he had been jostled.

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We observed the small saline herbs which I have mentioned the horses to be so fond of, also more of the Queensland saltbush than we have seen previously; at 12.3 made four miles and a quarter south-west by west to Manning Plain, where we delayed, and started again at 12.14; at 1.20 made two miles and a quarter south-west by west where we delayed and started again at 1.35; at 2.20 made two miles and a quarter south-west by west, where we having halted started again at 2.48; at 3.10 made one mile south-west by west to where we found yesterday's tracks; at 4.35 made four miles south by east to Saturday night's camp; at 4.45 made half a mile south to where Mr. Campbell's horse knocked up; at 6.19 made three miles and three-quarters south; at 6.27 made a quarter of a mile south half east to Chester Creek; at 6.52 made one mile and a quarter south half east to Mary Lake, where we formed our twenty-second camp.

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Here we delayed till 3.22 in consequence of one of the horses being knocked up; at 3.40 made one mile north by east to where we recrossed the right bank of the river; at 3.55 made three-quarters of a mile and encamped.

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I and my two friends were escorted into the centre of a large wood, in which very original _seats in trees_ had been knocked up for us.

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In September last I knocked up against him at Rennes during the Dreyfus trial.

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No regular form can be given for it, as it is generally made, or "knocked up," with the refuse and spent materials derived from other processes in the manufacture of perfumery; such as the spent vanilla after the manufacture of tincture or extract of vanilla, or of the grain musk from the extract of musk, orris from the tincture, tonquin beans, after tincturation, &c. &c., mixed up with rose-leaves, lavender, or any odoriferous herbs.

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I was not feeling well, and was much exhausted by my hard work, but I was sure that if I could only begin my journey on horseback instead of in the lumbering, rolling, rocking, heavy, straw-and-leather-smelling "Exclusive Extra" (that is, private stage-coach), I should get over my fatigue and the rest of the journey with some chance of not being completely knocked up by it.

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But we've knocked up against each other several times since then.

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Mrs. Blakeston, in an effort to tear herself away from her husband, had knocked up against the wash-hand stand, and the whole thing had crashed down.

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He had joined the force on the morning of the action of Badli-ki-Serai, but though senior to Barnard, he was too much knocked up by the intense heat of the long journey from Peshawar to take part in the action, and he had allowed Barnard to continue in command.

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My work was ended, the troops had all left, and as I was pretty well knocked up, I felt extremely grateful for the offer, and very proud of the great honour the Chief proposed to confer upon me.

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The heat during the day was becoming more and more overpowering as we proceeded south, and I had lately been feeling somewhat knocked up by it and by exposure to the sun.

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Our carriage not come; our horses, mules, &c. knocked up; ourselves fatigued; but so much the better--I shall sleep.

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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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I'll pretend to be all knocked up.

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Not understanding camels, I had to trust to the sepoys who overloaded them, and before we had accomplished our march of about seven miles they were knocked up.

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The bearers of the litters for the sick were absolutely knocked up, and we were obliged to the sepoys for getting on as we did.

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Our host had provided for our mutual edification an Italian gentleman, with whom he had had some pleasant intercourse on the Continent, (by the way he spoke English uncommonly well,) and now staying with a Roman Catholic in the neighborhood: this gentleman himself, with whom Harrington, by means of his former friend, has knocked up an acquaintance (he is a liberal Catholic of the true British species); our acquaintance, Fellowes, with his love of "insight" and "spiritualism"!

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"I have a two or three weeks' vacation on my hands," replied Enoch, "and I'm pretty well knocked up with office work.

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But, Jonas, old man, if you aren't too knocked up, you might make some biscuit."

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The people heard preaching in the upper rooms of warehouses, in the court-house, or in some rickety concern knocked up for the nonce.

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the fatigue of getting it has been so great that the fleet generally, and I am sorry to say, my ship most so, are knocked up.

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"Now we can have no desire for staying, for her ladyship is gone, and the _Ball_ for Friday knocked up by yours and the Earl's unpoliteness, to send gentlemen to sea instead of dancing with white gloves.

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Do you think I'd be glad if you were knocked up?"

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'Oh, Plummey!' exclaimed Mr. Puffington, as his servant entered, 'I'm deuced unwell--quite knocked up, in short,' clapping his hand on his forehead, adding, 'I shall not be able to dine downstairs to-day.'

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[Illustration: MR. SPONGE STARTING FROM THE BOWER] The fact was, the whole hunt was knocked up in a hurry.

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The bridge which overlooked the romantic gorge,--the rocks here rising precipitately from both sides of the Dietina,--seemed the favourite lounge of the garrison, for a little kiosk of rude planks had been knocked up; carpets were laid out; the Vayvode invited us to repose a little after our steep ascent; pipes and coffee were produced.

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The Russians and Japanese had disappeared through the Eastern Gates of the city, and the gossip was that each, in trying to steal a march on the other, had knocked up against large bodies of Chinese troops, who, still retaining their discipline, had stood their ground and inflicted heavy losses on the rivals.

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He stumbled over the threshold and knocked up against the table, it was so dark.

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I was seven days southing to Mamohela, Katomba's camp, and quite knocked up and exhausted.

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I was sorely knocked up by this march from Nyañgwé back to Ujiji.

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They gave me a sore head and face, before I got rid of the angry insects: I never saw men attacked before: the donkey was completely knocked up by the stings on head, face, and lips, and died in two days, in consequence.

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No entry at all was made in his diary after that which follows, and it must have taxed him to the utmost to write:-- "Knocked up quite, and remain--recover--sent to buy milch goats.

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Their tools and stores were four days ahead, in the care of an experienced teamster whom Mike knew well, and whom he could trust to pull through, despite the abominable roads and the misfortunes that had knocked up many a well-found team and marked the track with crippled horses and stranded wagons.

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