I remember I was noticing the green stain from the brass knocker on its paneling, when my horse snorted and stopped dead in his tracks.

The "oak" was open when I arrived at his chambers, and a modest flourish on the little brass knocker of the inner door was answered by my quondam teacher himself.

So I came round in front of the house, and gave a rat-tat on the door, while my pulse beat as loud inside of me as ever did the knocker without.

Then Chase mounted the steps and lifted the knocker with trembling fingers.

The sound of a bell or a knocker at the close of the evening is the signal of dismay.

Furious tradesmen of every kind were ringing the house-bell, and rapping the knocker for admittancesuch, at least, as could press through the crowd as far as the house.

I then hastened towards Wall street, and knocked at Lucy's door; (there were knockers to good houses in New York, in 1804, a vile nuisance having been since well gotten rid of,) and I knocked at Lucy's door, scarce conscious of the manner in which I had got there.

And there I seized the knocker in a frenzy, and made such a racket as might have awakened the dead.

On this cold December afternoon Peter stood, books in hand, and surveyed that aggravating knocker from his stand on the sidewalk.