Dick gave him a tremendous blow between his eyes that knocked him headlong.
He had hardly got it safely locked up out of sight, and seated himself as carelessly as he could in his easy chair, when Netta knocked softly at the door.
The universe seemed to swim aimlessly before him: he felt the solid ground knocked at once from beneath his feet, and found himself in one moment suspended alone above an awful abyss, a seething and tossing abyss of murky chaos.
I could have knocked him down for calling her by her Christian name, but the conviction flashed upon me that this was Lucretia's brother.
She always knocked before entering, by force of habit, for when Cyril was performing delicate experiments it often disturbed him, or spoilt the result, to have the door opened suddenly.
The butler stood at the library door and knockedin vain.
The warders brought down seven stretchers: one for me; one for the wounded warder; one for 1247, whom I had shot; and four for the convicts whom I had knockedover with the butt end of the rifle.
At four o'clock Andy and Hortense, in their best bib and tucker and with clean smiling faces, knocked at the door of the little cottage beyond the orchard where lived Fergus and Mary.
This so startled her that she knockedthe lid to the cookie jar to the floor with a crash, and she saw Jeremiah disappear around the corner.
He knocked lightly at the door, which in a moment was opened by a young woman, whose girlish face and willowy figure presented a vision of loveliness to those in the outer room.
He cleared his throat impatiently and knocked again.
Steam has knockedthe poetry out of navigation, as it has out of everything else--that is, that kind of poetry.
The landlord, divining his purpose, knocked the glass out of the negro's hand.
Through the window we could see the official in an ordinary coat, and we knocked on the glass.
There was no answer and after waiting a few minutes I knocked again.
I should have mentioned, when the affray was over, and I am sure it did not last five minutes, she went to Allan and kissed the hand that had knocked down her persecutor.
I don't know anything about it, for I was knocked down, I suppose, just as we went in, and the first thing I knew about it was that I was being carried on the back of one of those fellows.
We entered a place full of pirates, and were knocked down and taken prisoners and carried away up the country; that is six weeks ago, and you see what we are now.
I must have been knocked down and stunned," he said to himself, "and I suppose I am a prisoner now to these brutes, and one of them must be carrying me on his back.
Sir Lave, as if in the highest degree terrified: "you have knocked the key out of my hand, and now we are all prisoners here.
Upon examination, it was found that his nose had been broken, three teeth knocked out, four ribs fractured and a rupture produced.
While coming down the Swin the ship collided with the steamer "Kingscote," which knocked a hole in her side about sixteen feet long.
Anyhow, I hope you'll not feel too knocked up when you arrive in camp, and that we'll meet again.
Just as he entered Mac Fane struck me again, and with more effect, for he knocked me down; and was proceeding to kick me in a manner that might perhaps have been fatal, had not the keeper interfered.
She knocked violently, continued her cries and lamentations, and at last gained admittance.
So did he face death and the unknown when Fate knocked at the door.
Although he is soon to become a private citizen, his opinions are knocked down, and his character reduced as low as they are capable of sinking it, even by resorting to absolute falsehoods.
The past broke in and could not be pushed aside, the future knocked at the door and demanded an answer to its questionings.
As James Russell Lowell happily said, "meaning to enter the back door of the Old World, Columbus knocked at the front door of a New World.
Even in Italy, not long before Pizarro's day, a man so cultivated as Pope Julius the Second knocked about the incomparably more beautiful and remarkable buildings of ancient Rome when they interfered with his plans of building.
At the end of an alley as narrow and picturesque as a lane in a colored print he knocked at a green door, and was admitted to the studio by his protegee.
Bulstrode knocked the ash off his cigar and said thoughtfully: "It's too bad!
The very next evening Frances and Emma in great glee knocked at the door of what Miss Moore called their sky parlor, with an invitation to a candy pulling.
They were sitting around the fire in a sociable group enjoying the fruits of their labor, when the Spectacle Man knocked at the door.
Not a shot broke through the armor; but the terrible concussions knocked men down, and made blood come pouring from their nostrils.
Long Tom" had been knocked off his carriage by a carronade shot, and had to be remounted; but all was done quickly, and by morning the vessel was ready for whatever might be in store for her.
The "Governor Moore" kept on her way, but was knocked to pieces by the fire from the heavy guns of the frigates shortly after.
Vallette of the "Saratoga" was knockeddown by the head of a sailor, sent flying by a cannon-ball.
Within the forts, there was a scene of the most terrible confusion: guns were overturned, piles of cannon-balls were knockedto pieces and scattered about, and two magazines were blown up and scattered fragments all over the parade.
Her first broadside killed or wounded forty of the Americans; while many more were knocked down by the shock, but sustained no further injury.
One man who was knocked overboard by the concussion was back again and serving his gun in two minutes.
One ripped up a long furrow in the deck of the "Alabama," and knocked two men high in the air without disabling them.
But by this time the fort was very thoroughly knocked to pieces.
Then came a big shot that knocked over the pivot-gun, and killed half its crew.
Shortly after, Decatur was knocked to the deck by a heavy splinter.
Her first volley knocked a gunboat to pieces; and in another minute she had crashed into the side of a Union ram, sending that unlucky craft ashore for repairs.
In the wardroom and steerage, the bulkheads were all knocked down by the shells, and by the axemen making way for the hose, forming a scene of perfect ruin and desolation.
Deliberately she approached within easy range, then let fly a shot at the "Mattabesett" which knocked her launch to pieces and wounded several men.
He fought to retain his balance, but he had been knocked to the bottom of the boat against Loketh and they struggled together, unable to move during a precious second or two.
He had not been knocked out as the others appeared to be.
Well, when things looked blackest, I was knocked out in Salinas swamps, by fever and a bullet that touched my lungs.
I found a way out of the field, back to the road, drove into the yard of the farm where I had seen the light, knocked at the house, and asked for and obtained the night's accommodation for myself and for my horses.
Dan was knocked off his hind feet by the drawbar--and we plunged.
As many as twenty-five men wereknocked out by a shell.
Our men at this time," he says, "were getting badly knocked down.
Our trench was getting badly knocked about by the flying missiles.
Up to now, if he noticed a defect, he instantly and chivalrously put it out of his mind, but now certain doubts had knocked so long that by sheer persistence they forced an entrance.
Ten to one, if I were so foolhardy as to cut the Hispaniola from her anchor, I and the coracle would be knocked clean out of the water.
I durst not take the least notice of this at the time, for had I made any disturbance, I should have been knocked on the head.
Loudly he knocked with his fist at the cabin door and soon there was a response inside, the heavy movement of a man's body getting out of bed, and after that the questioning voice of a woman.
He knocked again and the flare of a lighted match illumined the window.
And Jolly Roger McKay felt that strength as he strode through the blackness, and knocked at the door, and went in to face Nada and the little old gray-haired Missioner in the lampglow.
He knockedthe ashes from his pipe and, turning his face quickly towards me, said: "I yoost tells you how I feels.
G was knockeddown and rendered insensible for a short time by the near-by explosion of a shell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knocked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
