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... speaking with Ragnall at the gate of the second court. A little before I had retired exhausted from the fierce and fearful fighting, whereon he took my place and repelled several of the Black Kendah charges, including the last. In this fray he received a further injury, a knock on the head from a stick or stone which stunned him for a few minutes, whereon some of our people had carried him off and set him on the ground with his back against one of the pillars of the second gate. Being told that ...

— The Ivory Child • H. Rider Haggard

... Comrade 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. Come in." ...

— Psmith, Journalist • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... the accounts of martyrdoms little investigation was made as to what was possible. Burnet, describing Hooper's execution, says, "one of his hands fell off before he died, with the other he continued to knock on his breast some time after." This, I have high medical authority for saying, ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 • Various

... hammer, wherewith to knock on Thor's anvil, and make her necessities known, and this piece of iron ...

— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

... out!" snapped Don Loris. "Take a reasonable guard with you. The thing must have a door. Knock on it and ask who's inside and why they came here. Tell them I ...

— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster

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