knocked-up

Example Sentences

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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 Hales, A. G. (Alfred Greenwood)

It's nothing; only a bit of knocked-up skin.

From The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan by Little, Frances, [pseud.]

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 James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

It seems she sought him out—to-night, of all times!— when he was pegged—completely knocked-up.

From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames

“I mean, lad, that we’ve but a poor chance to reach the ranch wi’ such knocked-up brutes as these.

From Charlie to the Rescue by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)