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My Girlfriend fell and knockered here teeth on the pavement.
Fractured Teeth, Knocked out Teeth, and other Pediatric Dental Accidents Dr. Dean Brandon 2006
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The fine old doorway, brass-knockered, arched by a spray of crimson rambler, was flanked on one hand by a great conch-shell, on the other by an enormous specimen of branch-coral, thus subtly intimating to passers-by that the owner of the house had been in "foreign parts."
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And, for the rest, the unpaved sidewalks were just as dusty, the same deep ruts and the puddles which never dry, not even in mid-August, adorned Fairhaven's single street; the comfortable moss upon Fairhaven's roofs had not varied by a shade; and George Washington or Benjamin Franklin might have stepped out of any one of those brass-knockered doorways without incongruity and without finding any noticeable innovation to marvel at.
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918
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Now as he gazed, the area, and the damp steps, and the gloomy door all seemed familiar; therefore he stepped back, and gazing up, saw a high, flat-fronted house, surely that same unlovely house at whose brass-knockered front door Captain Slingsby of the Guards had once stood and rapped with trembling hand.
The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915
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I was just there for the last of hairy-legged feminism, when we could parody those adverts that used big-knockered women to sell bulldozer equipment or whatever, and yet now it's all over the place again!
The Guardian World News Euan Ferguson 2010
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I was just there for the last of hairy-legged feminism, when we could parody those adverts that used big-knockered women to sell bulldozer equipment or whatever, and yet now it's all over the place again!
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Euan Ferguson 2010
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I didn't post the FKP, because as previously explained I was knockered out.
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I was just there for the last of hairy-legged feminism, when we could parody those adverts that used big-knockered women to sell bulldozer equipment or whatever, and yet now it's all over the place again!
The Guardian World News Euan Ferguson 2010
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