knock-me-down

Every one chattered, argued, discussed, disputed, applauded, from the gentleman lounging upon the barroom settee with his tumbler of sherry-cobbler before him down to the waterman who got drunk upon his “knock-me-down” in the dingy taverns of Fell

From the Earth to the Moon 2003

Six insides out of nine hard at it, and four of them with knock-me-down Virginia tobacco, the single human odour could not contend against such powerful odds; as well might a musquito sneeze against thunder.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

"I never can think such tremendous, knock-me-down figures in the least degree elegant, and as for their eyes, they are so tall that I never could strain my neck enough to look at them."

Love And Freindship Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1922

It's _Him_ as'll smuggle us all into heaven, not your psalm-smitin ', knock-me-down, ten-commandment, cussin' God.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

"I have had a knock-me-down blow to-night, son Allan."

A Daughter of Fife Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

None of your European cigarettes fit for a cat, not even the genuine big, knock-me-down native article that a fellow can really put in the time with if his pipe is broke — but a cigar, and one of my Mexicans at that, that I could swear to.

Island Nights' Entertainments Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

"But we're making a regular knock-me-down shindy," said Llewellyn;

Eric, or Little by Little 1867

And he's so positive, so knock-me-down; it is quite unpleasant, I don't know how to sit it sometimes.

Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert John Henry Newman 1845

This here young gen'lm'n's father -- so I'm told, mind ye -- and the father o 'the young voman, have always been on very bad, out-and-out, rig'lar knock-me-down sort o' terms; but somehow or another, when he was a wisitin 'at some gentlefolk's house, as he knowed at college, he came into contract with the young lady.

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

And, certainly, he has not his equal, as a positive, dogmatic, knock-me-down argument-monger; a dare devil; an embodied phantasmagoria, or frisky infatuation.

The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828