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Example sentences for "knocked down"

  • The bully went sprawling, knocked down by a well directed blow from the undersized, bespectacled young assemblyman--and some of the gang that attempted to bring aid to the fallen also found themselves upon the floor.

  • In answer Robin Hood called for his men to set up a mark, telling them that they must shoot to good purpose, for he that missed, were it only by a hair, should be knocked down by Will Scarlet.

  • Spake when I ax you," he said, urbanely, but with a glance which conveyed to any too urgent sympathizer that he would be knocked down, when accessible.

  • It was only last Saturday, he knocked down a boy nearly three times his own size for poking a pin into a poor donkey with the fish.

  • They have good arms, are accustomed to vigorous striking without giving warning, especially when honest folks are to be knocked down or ripped open.

  • He then said if I did not instantly depart he would drag me off to prison and cause me to be knocked down if I made the slightest resistance.

  • He may even have been informed that they were descendants of the Headborough whom his father had knocked down.

  • The shot broke the wheel and knocked down a timber which wounded the Commodore in the foot.

  • He never went to Bed till two a-Clock in the Morning, because he would not be a queer Fellow; and was every now and then knocked down by a Constable, to signalize his Vivacity.

  • Therefore I object to the expression 'knocked down.

  • Please tell the court what happened after the Chinese boy had been knocked down.

  • IF a man were to set out calling everything by its right name, he would be knocked down before he got to the corner of the street.

  • I summed up and the amount "knocked down" was thirty-one dollars.

  • They will not have their nests knocked down.

  • Then the ground looks quite black with them as they dart over it: they exhibit no fear, but if you stand in the midst come all round you so close that they might be knocked down with a walking-stick if used quick enough.

  • Now double slanged into the cells for a crop he is knocked down; he is double ironed in the condemned cells, and ordered to be hanged.

  • To be knocked down for a crop; to be condemned to be hanged.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beloved reader; branching stem; came nearer; discourse delivered; entirely wanting; eternal rest; external force; extremely common; good butter; good cook; knocked down; left half; living matter; many wounded; municipal affairs; passes over; poor boy; pounds per square inch; said about; said afterwards; slow down; suddenly thought