Knocks
[nɔks]
Examples
- The sea has no appreciation of great men, but knocks them about like the small fry. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then he takes off his fur hat and knocks it against the door. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Two peculiarly blunt knocks or pokes at the door, as if the dead man arriving on his back were striking at it with the soles of his motionless feet. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Phil announcing it, Mr. George knocks the ashes out of his pipe on the hob, stands his pipe itself in the chimney corner, and sits down to the meal. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Elliston, still smarting with the knocks, kicks and scratches he had got in his scuffle with the obstinate coachman, was not in a very gentle humour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- To anybody but a half-blind man it would have said, You want another of the knocks which have already laid you so low. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A kind of giddy sensation has come upon me, miss, he explained, which rather knocks me over. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He knocks, receives no answer, opens it, and accidentally extinguishes his candle in doing so. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is my belief she knocks him about terribly in that chamber. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Bhaer sat looking about him with the air of a traveler who knocks at a strange door, and when it opens, finds himself at home. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The winter fool comes to the door of your house and he knocks loudly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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