Door knockers were used formerly in place of door bells, but to-day they are merely used for ornamental purposes.
Iron nails with ornamented heads and decorative door-knockers are other objects which reveal the influence of Mohammedan Spain.
The collection of the late Count of Valencia de Don Juan included four door-knockers of Spanish iron, dating from late in the fifteenth century or early in the sixteenth.
The knockers contain a scroll and flowers, and on the scroll the words, Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel.
In the knockers with the figures of the saints "we notice the partial use of the chisel, which became general in the sixteenth century, at the same time that iron objects were loaded with images, forms of animals, and other capricious figures.
The Knockers know where to find the most productive lodes, and sometimes they reward an industrious miner by pointing out to him where he might take a good tribute pitch.
Besides, he should know that houses in this country have knockers and bells.
Knockers and bells are for prosaic people; the serenade and the guitar are for operatic tenors.
He turned away his servant for screwing up one of the knockers which he had removed during the period of his own bachelorhood, from an eminent physician's house in Saville Row, on the housekeeper's door at Larkyn Hall.
I desired him to show me an experiment of this invention; upon which he fixed one of his knockers to my parlour door.
A very old fellow visited me to-day at my lodgings, and desired encouragement and recommendation from me for a new invention of knockers to doors, which he told me he had made, and professed to teach rustic servants the use of them.
The explanation of the Knockers is more recent, and less palpable and convincing.
They can, however, readily obtain brass knockers dating from the reign of Queen Anne, and especially the ornate knockers of Georgian times, many of them bearing traces of the Adams' style and of Chippendale influence.
Some knockers are peculiar in that the design is not always apparent.
Caution should be observed, especially when buying "old time" fire-brasses, knockers and trivets.
These beautiful handles and the delightful brass knockers which were used on furniture and doors concurrently gave way to the ugly handles of the Victorian age, when wood and glass knobs reigned supreme.
There are boys who enjoy wrenching knockers off doors, not because knockers are an interesting kind of bric-à-brac, but because there is just a chance of being caught in the act by the police.
It is to this type that the exquisite iron-chiseled knockers of Henry II and Louis XIV belong.
Old doorknockers vary as to size according to the date of their construction.
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, knockers were used on all classes of houses.
It would seem that the price of the old knocker would be high, on account of its historical value, and yet this type of knockers sells at a lower price than present-day specimens.
The history of door knockers is practically unwritten, and little is known concerning their make.
Not a few of these knockers have wonderfully interesting histories.
The best place to purchase genuine oldknockers is in the curio shops, where only such things are for sale.
Others, with a veneration for heirlooms, packed the knockers away in old hair trunks under the eaves of the spacious attic, together with other antiques of varying character.
Door knockers in use during the Medieval period were perhaps the most carefully designed, while those of the Renaissance period showed the most fanciful treatment.
The door knockers in general use to-day are the Georgian urn or vase, the thumb latch, and the eagle.
Considered to be one of the oldest knockers in this section is that on the door of the May house at Newton, Massachusetts.
I have nothing to say agen them; you gents must have your larks, and bell-handles and knockers goes in your pockets, but I draws the line at these here; take it away.
His rapid knack of getting brass plates off doors and railings, his skill at wrenching knockers and bell-handles without alarming the owners, made him an indispensable companion of a night's fun.
Mr. Murphy; I 'opes to goodness the perlice won't see this blessed board, nor these knockersand things.
Just after the roof fell, so Father said, he and all the rest of the miners saw a band of knockersgathered around the pile of fallen roof and pointing at the figure of the woman crushed beneath.
He said the knockers were laughing so loudly that some of the miners heard the echoes away at the other end of the mine.
With huge delight, he was absorbing all the superstitions of the sea, and giving the steersman a gruesome crop of tales of knockers and gas sprites underground.
Said theknockers had been riled an' he wouldn't take the risk o' goin' agin 'em.
On one side was Jim telling about his gold mine, on the other was Anton, crying out from time to time that the knockers had him.
I desired him to shew me an experiment of this invention; upon which he fixed one of his knockers to my parlour-door.
The varnished doors closed upon Jeames within; the brazen knockers grinned their familiar grin at Clive, and he went down the blank steps discomfited.
Oh," said Peter quickly, "because Bob says people in England sleep like dormice in the winter, and have to be wakened by big knockers on the door.
The door of Lions is covered in a similar manner with bronze plates ornamented in the finest renaissance style; the knockersare models in their way.
Among the applications of iron to decorations of civil architecture must be specially mentioned the nails and knockers on the doors of houses, which are so characteristic of Toledo and other old Spanish towns.
The streets and shops and door-knockers of the harlequinade, which to the vulgar aesthete make it seem commonplace, are in truth the very essence of the aesthetic departure.
Knockers always get it in the end, but they go on foolin' me and workin' me just the same as if I was a youngster with my first team.
The team which was without one of the parasites of the game generally stood well up in the race for the pennant, though there had been championship teams noted for great knockers as well as great players.
Then I heard in the distance those echoes, magical and faint, which were attributed by Winifred and Sinfi to the Knockers or spirits of Snowdon.
During the whole of the time the Knockers kept up their knockings, and it really seemed as though the good-natured goblins were expressing their welcome to the child of y Wyddfa.
In conclusion, I may remark that in living miners' days, as already stated, Knockers have not been heard.
Newcastle, describes the Knockers thus:-- "The immense caverns that lay between the pillars exhibited a most gloomy appearance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knockers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bag; boob; booby; bosom; breast; bust; chest; crop; knocker; nipple; pap; papilla; teat; thorax; tit; udder
