Just then there were three loud knocks at the street door.

I did not have the chance to continue, for a hand was trying the latch of the door, and then a sharp knock interrupted me.

" At this moment there came a double knock at the door, and the servant announced that Mr. Wordley was in the drawing-room.

During this anxious period, a gentle knock was made at the door; and Elliot, on opening it, was presented by Edith's single attendant with the small packet that Roger's Indian messenger had brought for her mistress.

While she was busily cutting out the news from the Telegraph to be ready for Arthur Dayson, there was a very timid knock at the door, and Florrie entered, as into some formidable cabinet of tyrannic rulers.

"Perhaps" There was a little knock at the door.

He was brought abruptly back to the living present by a sudden knock at the door without, which he had locked after entering that way from the deck.

"For all that, you got a nasty knock, and your quitting for a time is justified.

While she was taking off her hat, there came a hurried knock, and Isabel entered in her best dress.

In answer to his peremptory knock, the door was opened by a man slighter and shorter than himself, but sufficiently like him to be known as his brother, and the travellers staggered inthe door, with a heavy crash, blowing to behind them.

Olympia had come down-stairs to give Mrs. Bevan final instruction regarding letters and luggage, when a resounding knock came upon the door.

Then he spurred his horse down the path, flung himself with a shout out of the saddle, cast open the door of the house without a preliminary knock, and rushed into the room.

" Then he gave the peculiar knock on the door.

At that moment there came a violent knock upon the street door, a sound of voices, and Pompey's slow step approaching the library door.

Again that familiar knock....

III There was an impatient knock at the front door,rare phenomenon, but not unknown.

Her unvarnished association with the other sex in classroom and campus had taught her, by means of certain rough knocks which more sheltered boarding-school girls never get, an accuracy of estimate as to the actual feeling of men towards the women they profess to admire unreservedly which (had he been able to conceive of it) old Mr. Sommerville would have thought nothing less than cynical.

The footsteps reached the head of the stairs and advanced to the door, on which there was a distinct knock.

saying which, Adam nodded several times, and bestowed an emphatic backhanded knock to the crown of his hat.

Toward the middle of the morning, during the "hours for visitors," I heard a faint knock at my door.

He is a sore beleaguerer of chambers, and assaults them sometimes with furious knocks; yet finds strong resistance commonly, and is kept out.

At last she entered Green Street, and came to the house of the kind lady who had furnished her and many others with work; raised the knocker, and gave one humble knock at the door.

My aunt had died about midnight, and it was at midnight that Diaz and I had heard the mysterious knock on his sitting-room door.

Their patroness then shut the door, and away they went, with a great noise of flapping, and creaking, and straining, and the bright brass knocker, knocking one perpetual double knock of its own accord as they jolted heavily along.

They were not those petty, sharp, brisk, soda-water knocks given by little, bustling, common-place men.