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"Knock on" Quotes from Famous Books

... pause followed, during which no one spoke or stirred. At length the silence was broken by a knock on the door, ...

— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed

... observed Jos, "Queen Victoria knock on de head any one hurt us—give plenty money any one give us plenty ...

— The Three Midshipmen • W.H.G. Kingston

... few seconds, however, came a modest knock on the room-door, and Mrs. Lake, wiping her hands, proceeded to admit the knocker. She was a smartly dressed woman, who bore such a mass of laces and finery, with a white woollen shawl spread over it, apparently with the purpose of smothering any living thing there might ...

— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... in their own house; that's where! We came to a village, the soldiers began hunting about in the house, when suddenly there's that same little girl lying on the floor, flat on her stomach. We were going to give her a knock on the head, but all at once I felt that sorry, that I took her up in my arms; but no, she wouldn't let me! Made herself so heavy, quite a hundredweight, and caught hold where she could with her hands, so that one couldn't get them off! Well, so I began stroking her head. It was so bristly,—just ...

— Redemption and Two Other Plays • Leo Tolstoy et al

... Jarvis," said as a sharp knock sounded on the door. "I do not think it can be our late friends. Comrade Repetto's knowledge of the usages of polite society is too limited, I fancy, to prompt him to knock on doors. ...

— Psmith, Journalist • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

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