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knocked-up



knocked up


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Yet, with it all, I had escaped with a graze over the right temple and a badly knocked-up shoulder.

From Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front by A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) Hales

My brother, Sweeney, and Pierre were behind with the knocked-up horses, trying to get them along.

From Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, by John Forrest

This overcasting is done by inserting a fine needle near the back of the knocked-up sheets from above and drawing the thread almost quite through, the second and following stitches all being made from above.

From Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam

Now, from what I have heard, my boy Richard must be in there; for his horse was found, it seems, not above two or three hundred yards from the house, broken-knee'd and knocked-up.

From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Sent out and had the other three knocked-up horses brought in all right.

From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by John McDouall Stuart

“Life there is like a buzzsaw knocked up a glitter bomb,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2024

A burst of nitrogen gas knocked up rocks and dust into the collection filter, and then OSIRIS-REX slowly backed away without landing on Bennu.

From New York Times May 10, 2021

With the Rangers on their third power play, DeAngelo’s shot was stopped by Varlamov and knocked up in the air before it fell to the ice behind him.

From Washington Times Jan. 16, 2020

Camilla knocked up a mozzarella salad with blood oranges, beetroots, leaves and watercress at the CEO CookOff event in the City of London.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2017

On the road his horse knocked up, but he luckily fell in with a caravan, and obtained a place in a camel-basket.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various




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