Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Deniel Pratt will lecture on "Human AEstheticism" this evening, at 581 Washington street. The general says he can knock Oscar "higher than a kite...
They have invented a system of hiving bees by electricity. This knocks the neighbors out of the fun they used to have under the old system, of seeing the man who attempted to do the hiving make a grand burst of speed toward the mill pond, clawing wildly at his legs, leaping at times four feet into the air, and yelling like a Comanche Indian. Modern invention will yet knock all the fun out of life...
THERE was a soft, timid knock at the door. "Shades of U. 5!" exclaimed the Lamprey, "I would n't have anybody catch me reading these!" as he dexterously concealed the papers before him in the sleeve of his dress coat. The door moaned on its hinges, and in glided the Ibex in gorgeous new shoulder braces...
...words called her to his side? No sooner had he spoken than a knock was heard at the door. He hastened to open; but alas! it was only the philosopher. Yung was in every respect a good host; therefore, in spite of his disappointment, his welcome was a cordial...
...reveries; in fact there was no need of any, because I was all broke up already. The sonorous snore of my next-door neighbor came to me as soothingly as the sound of the waves on the beach. As I lay communing with my inner consciousness there was a knock at the door. Without waiting for any summons in walked a form which I had seen before. As he came nearer I saw it was an old acquaintance, familiarly known at college as Lampy. Somewhat surprised at the unexpected apparition, I hesitated a moment; but then remembering previous experience...