"Knocked out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... want our ribs knocked out, we'd better go," said the Manager. "We can't even save the ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling
... his wrath, seized a stone, and cast it at his wife, and knocked out one of her front teeth. She said nothing, but she took the tooth and wrapped it in a rag, and sent it with a message to her brother, the Shaykh of the Muslimah. Now, this chief was unable to revenge his sister single-handed, so ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... unhappy wolf, the same Josselyn writing of one taken in a trap: "A great mastiff held the wolf . . . Tying him to a stake we bated him with smaller doggs and had excellent sport; but his hinder leg being broken, they knocked out his brains." ...
— Anne Bradstreet and Her Time • Helen Campbell
... not a man to reach such a conviction through merely sentimental considerations. The inevitable conclusion was that he had something up his sleeve—that he had gained possession of some facts that had escaped my observation; and when I had reached this point I knocked out my pipe and betook ...
— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman
... may have been but a foot or two deep, but of course he could gain no footing. He still dragged his leaden burden. All the breath was knocked out of him under the continual blows, but he was conscious of no pain. The last few moments were a blank. He found himself in the back-water, and expended his last ounce of strength in crawling out on hands and knees on the beach. He cast ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
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