When the god was departed, Ulysses with loud knockings beat at the gate of the palace.

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.

The sleeping family were disturbed by his violent knocking.

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

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

Now it seemed to her as if she heard a gentle knocking below in the house.

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.

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....

At midnight these eight Representative prisoners were sleeping in their cells at Mazas, when they heard a sudden knocking at their doors, and a voice cried out to them, "Dress, they are coming to fetch you."

A sharp knocking at the door was heard.

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

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

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.

He would have done more but for an imperative knocking on the glass, and he left the premises sadly, putting his collection of rubbish over the next garden fence as he passed it.

Mr. Mott spent the evening by himself, and retiring to bed at ten-thirty was awakened by a persistent knocking at the front door at half-past one.