Knocking
['nɔkiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knock
(n.) A beating; a rap; a series of raps.
Editor: Shelton
Unserious Contents or Definition
To hear knocking in your dreams, denotes that tidings of a grave nature will soon be received by you. If you are awakened by the knocking, the news will affect you the more seriously.
Editor: Thea
Examples
- The knocking came again. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Don't lose your temper as well as your money, says Mr. George, calmly knocking the ashes out of his pipe. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I started to carry out the procedure when, upon opening the oil-cup, the steam rushed out with a tremendous noise, nearly knocking me off the engine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was shut; and as no one answered to my knocking, I went, by back ways and by-lanes, to the yard where he worked. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was just after the mysterious knocking that he began the theme. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The cue was still in my hand, and I went on knocking the balls about, to take off the awkwardness of the thing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She felt herself esteemed, needed almoSt. As they took coffee in the library, there was a soft, very soft knocking at the door. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What the deuce is he knocking at his own door for? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- They could hear Clym moving in the other room, as if disturbed by the knocking, and he uttered the word Mother. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Your lap seems full of good things, and here is a basket of something between us which has been knocking my elbow unmercifully. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He came to consciousness again, hearing an immense knocking outside. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I had risen from my seat and was knocking out the ashes of my pipe when I suddenly heard the clang of the bell. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- After knocking at it two or three times without receiving an answer, she pushed it gently open, and looked in. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We say that knocking is a sign of the sorehead and we sublimate criticism by saying that every knock is a boost. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We're not going to have any knockings on the head in THIS family, if you please, sir. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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