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Next Morning he came again, thinking to go about his Business, but found all fast shut still; and though he knock'd often and loud, could make No body hear: He saunter'd about 'till towards Noon, and still it was the same; no Noise was to be heard but the Herds lowing in the Yard for
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March'd o'er the old Bridge, and knock'd at the Wall
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Compliment with a Wherret of my Fist, which knock'd him over, and had cost me my Life, durst any have struck in the Palace.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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_Richardo_ knock'd down _Sempronius_ and _Richardo_ ran him to the
Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob
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My wife got a very good living by weaving, and could do extremely well; but just at that time there was great disturbance among the weavers; so that I was afraid to let my wife work, least they should insist on my joining the rioters which I could not think of, and, possibly, if I had refused to do so they would have knock'd me on the head.
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
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Oh! a man mid ha 'knock'd en right down wi' a veather,
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect William Barnes
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Our cabins there we all knock'd down, our decks we cleared away.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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"I am here!" said the fiend, and he thundering knock'd
Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 Edward Ziegler Davis 1901
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He was always hunting after newspapers, to read about battles; and imagined soldiers and sailors were only made to be knock'd on the head, that he might read an account of it in the papers.
A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 Geo. Alex. Stevens 1893
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Yes, sinners! you'll all have to fall and be knock'd down some time or nuther, like the great giant we've heern tell on, when the Lord's sarvints come and fight agin you!
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887
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