But I don't really study when I'm knocking around this way.
I don't read when I'm knocking around like this, having a good time.
I like this knocking around, loose and easy, and making acquaintances and talking.
I got up, raising myself by slow degrees, in case of knocking my head against the lid.
Silas sprang down the steps, knocking over his father in his descent.
He had been in bed for some time, though not asleep, thinking over Harry's affairs, when he was aroused by a knockingat the door.
He himself had never seen the fun of knocking down watchmen, running off with their rattles, and rousing up medical practitioners from their midnight slumbers, or calling reverend gentlemen out of their beds to visit dying people.
The pony, panic-stricken, spun round and tossed up his head, striking the rifle which Roosevelt was holding in both hands and knocking it violently against his forehead, cutting a deep gash.
The first intimation Roosevelt had of its existence one day, as he was knockingat the door of the Wadsworth cabin, was a rush that the animal made for his trousers.
Guert did little besides shoot and fish, keeping our larder well supplied with trout, pigeons, squirrels, and such other game as the season would allow, occasionally knocking over something in the shape of poor venison.
They've given me more than my fair share--knocking the squadron out of shape.
T isn't for nothing that I've been knockingabout the country for fourteen years.
He walked toward Simmons, with the intention of rushing him, and knocking him down.
It was pitiful to watch The Boy knocking himself to pieces, as an over-handled colt falls down and cuts himself when he gets away from the groom.
There's a real one knocking about here, and it might lead to trouble.
I only want to give you the general notion of it--the knocking about from place to place and the fighting and all that.
My dear fellow," he murmured gently, knocking off the ash of his cigarette against the table edge as he did so, "no one is seeking to prevent you.
Next morning, about three o'clock, I was awakened by the sound of some oneknocking violently at my door.
I'd not been knocking about the rough side of the world for fifteen years without learning how to take care of myself.
A wild elephant attacks a hunter by charging furiously and persistently, sometimes making a real man-chase, seizing the man or knocking him down, and then impaling him upon his tusks as he lies.
A game he was very fond of was to pretend he was blind, shutting his eyes very tightly, and running around the room knocking against tables and chairs.
In captivity a mean elephant kills a keeper, or other person, by suddenly knocking him down, and then either trampling upon him or impaling him.
She used to begin breakfast sometimes by knocking me to the other side of the room with a slap, and finish it by calling me her darling boy and promising me all manner of toys and things.
He shrugged his shoulders No; just sort ofknocking round a bit.
But Leclere caught Batard behind the ear with a blow from his fist, knocking him over, and, for the instant, stunning him.
If I can," said Guest, knocking the ashes from his cigar.
Fancy, my lad, after an apprenticeship of seven years to a convict's life that fellowknocking at my door, and Andrews coming up to say that he had called for his wife.
It proved pretty useful last week when we were having that scouting drill ashore and by knocking two rocks together I was able to tell you to go to the left of that clump of bamboo.
As Dick reached them he swung his right fist with all his strength on the jaw of the standing man, knocking him senseless to the road.
It was almost morning when Miss Farwell was awakened by a loud knocking at the front door.
While the nurse, in her room, was greeting Miss Charity, Elder Jordan, who had stopped on his way home from the post office was knocking at the door of the minister's study.
It is not Christ knocking at the door of a sinner's heart, but knocking at the door of the professing church.
The others fled and climbed a tree, at which the buffalo rushed many times, knocking off piece after piece of the tree with his horns till very little of it was left.
As they pass around the sun pole, all shoot at once at the objects suspended from the pole (§ 164), knocking them aside suddenly.
On the morrow night I sat again at my task, and again there came a knocking at the door, and again a woman entered and threw aside her wrappings.
Presently, as I sat, there came a knocking at the door, and a woman entered wrapped in a heavy cloak.
Now as she spoke thus, again there came a sound of knocking at the gates and a cry of "Open--a messenger!
Well," said Maurice, "I suppose if the worst comes to the worst it will only be a matter of knocking him on the head with an oar.
And who may be you that come knocking and banging the door of a dacent house at this time o' night, making a hullabaloo fit for to wake the dead; and it the blessed Sabbath too?
Suddenly, there was a noise of loud knocking at the door of the house.
There was a bang on the door and a moment later a knocking on the window of the room, and then a woman's fate was pressed against the glass.
After that, Mr. Noddles pretended to call to a mason up the chimney, the mason answering in a husky voice from above, and finally proceeding with his work of knocking out a brick.
Illustration] The second feat of hanky-panky consists in knocking your head against the edge of a door with such apparent force as to break your skull, provided it be anything under an inch thick.
I remember running against something soft and knocking it over and suppose it must have been Miss Finnely.
As I was looking over my shoulder I ran against her, knocking her, tub and all over in a pile, myself with them.
Mrs Baggett walked into her master's room, loudly knocking at the door, and waiting for a loud answer.
The night had hardly ended, indeed it was more than an hour before daybreak, when I heard a furiousknocking at the house-door, stroke succeeding stroke without a moments pause.
Or, knocking the stopper gently with a piece of wood, first on one side, then on the other, will generally loosen it.
