In a little while she heard a knock at her door.

" He gave another thundering knock, and then nearly fell backwards into the snow, for Brother Paul stood on the threshold holding up a lamp.

Scarcely ten seconds from the time when she first answered the knock, Nelly was opening the door and peeping out into the hall.

Presently I heard a knocking on the boards.

And if you'll put away metaphysics, come out of the cloud in which you have hid yourself in your dreamy speculations, I will furnish you with a case in point, showing that a man may get into a very unpleasant predicament, where he runs a great risk and gets some hard knocks, and yet be able to thank God for it, in perfect earnestness of spirit.

It is in many respects a hard life, and at all times is attended with a fair amount of risk, but you cannot make omelets without breaking eggs, and if any one chooses to spend his life running to earth men who are waging war against Society, well, he must not grumble if he receives some hard knocks in return.

The manager looked at her, and, arter she 'ad gone to talk to a gentleman in the next bar wot was knocking double knocks on the counter with a pint pot, he whispered to Rupert that she 'ad been one of them.

General Leflô answered the knocking, but he did not know any more than General Bedeau.

But his heart was in the gambling den which he maintained in Doyers Street, and where anyone who knew the knock could have a shell of hop for the asking, once Mock had given him the once-over through the little sliding panel.

Now this Thomas Stewart had very foolishly left a pretty estate in Kincardine, together with a wife and two sturdy boys, to march under the banner of the Princeling, as he conceived to be his duty, and after giving and taking many hard knocks, here he was in the enemy's hands, and Charles Stuart a fugitive.

Now, at about ten o'clock that Sunday, there came in succession two loud knocks at the door.

She was on her knees like a charwoman, sniffing the strong reek of suds, when there came a knocking at her door.

She always felt him to be there, and whenever he suddenly rapped on the door she recognized his heavy knock and began to tremble as if he had come to beat her.

It was always a great ordeal to enter the doctor's study, even in what might be termed times of peace; and now, as Diggory turned the handle of the door, in answer to the muffled "Come in" which had followed his knock, the three friends experienced a sudden shortness of breath, and an unpleasant sinking sensation at the pit of the stomach.

" He turned and illustrated the knock on the balustrade of the stairs up which they had hastened.

CI Angels I saw at night knock at the wine-house gate: They shaped the clay of Adam, flung into moulds its weight.

I at one time seen a wrist pin and boxes ruined by the engineer trying to stop a knock that came from a loose fly-wheel.

A loose fly-wheel will most likely puzzle you more than anything else to find the knock.

They have stood the knocking about of three worlds already; and have done their duty therein; and they are ready (if you choose to mend the road with them) to stand the knocking about of this fourth world, and being most excellent gravel, to do their duty in this world likewise; which is more, I fear, than either you or I can say for ourselves.

" As they got up, the door handle rattled again, and this time there followed a knocking.

And as Dickens declares that the warriors engaged far more eagerly in that mimic strife, on discovering that all blows were to be received by deputy, so there is evidently an increased willingness to deal hard knocks on both sides, in the present case, so long as it is clear that only Virginia will take them.

He came up smilin'used to git His share o' knocks, but he had grit, An' if they hurt he didn't set Around th' grocery store an' fret.

And then I go the furthest off To counteract a knock; Then draw my little letter forth And softly pick its lock.

" "I'm going a great many knocks," cried Katie, whose exertions in rocking from side to side had thrown her overboard once.

A chap I know, whose chauffeur pals up with Rees' valet, told me that he's been having heaps of threatening letters from fellows who'd got the knock over the B. & I. He seemed to think they'd done him in.