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Sentences starting with knocking

Knocking softly she was admitted by Nic. [11]

Sentences ending with knocking

Jo roused himself with an effort, and opened to the knocking. [11]
At that moment Voban entered the room without knocking. [11]
A loud and violent knocking. [12]
Still another day she came knocking. [11]
There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! [5]
Now whereas I knew that when her head ached every noise gave her pain, I mounted the steps with great care and opened the door softly without knocking. [10]
But he said hoarsely, and with an attempt at being brave --"How dare you enter my house with out knocking? [11]
He opened the door and entered without knocking. [11]
He was sitting by the window reading, and when the doctor came up the steps he told her in a low voice to enter without knocking. [4]
The words of a nursery rhyme rang in her ears distinctly, keeping time to the knocking. [11]

Short sentences using knocking

Still the knocking went on. [11]

Sentences containing knocking two or more times

She seemed to be sinking, sinking--There was a knocking, knocking at the door of the cabin, and a voice calling to her--how far away it seemed! [11]
At last came a knocking, knocking at the door-tap! [11]

More example sentences with the word knocking in them

The other night when you were telling me your little story, you were near sending yourself into eternity--as near as I am knocking this ash off my cigar. [11]
I don't read when I'm knocking around like this, having a good time. [5]
These stayed to watch the "mad Inglesi," as a foreigner called him, knocking his head against the foot stool of an unresponsive god of chance. [11]
The knocking, which was now renewed, and which in that stillness they could plainly hear, troubled them. [12]
When the insolent uproar went up from the "Greens," whose color he himself wore, he had found it difficult to refrain from rushing on the cowardly crew and knocking some of them down. [10]
She realised how unprotected her position would be when death came knocking at the door again. [11]
Sawing off stumps under the water, knocking poisonous snakes by scores from the branches, while the river rose and rose and rose, and the rain crept by inches under their tent flies, and the enemy walked the parapet of Vicksburg and laughed. [9]
It was the twins, knocking out a classic four-handed piece on the piano in great style. [5]
To go now to the white house on the hill; to face that old life even for an hour, a knocking at the door of a haunted house--he shrank from the thought. [11]
Then Pierre went to the door, and without knocking, opened it, and entered. [11]
Its rider, muffled to the chin, was knocking, and at the same time pulling his cap down closely over his head. [11]
They were about to start upon their journey when there came a knocking at the door. [11]
She was about to hold out her hand to him to say good-bye, when there was a noise without, a knocking at the door, then it was flung open, and Tardif, intoxicated, entered followed by two constables, with Fournel's servant vainly protesting. [11]
They begged him to come, and, bringing his medicines, save the people, for death was galloping through the town, knocking at many doors. [11]
It was at this point that Li Choo came knocking at the open door with a message for Mazarine. [11]
I had all these ideas I gathered knocking about the world, and I gave them to Willis, of Philadelphia, to put together for me. [9]
At that moment there came a knocking at the door, then it was thrown open, and there stepped inside the Earl of Leicester, preceded by a page bearing a torch. [11]
Without a word the Seigneur went to the door of the inn whence the sounds proceeded, and, without knocking, entered. [11]
At that moment the knocking ceased. [12]
He turned towards the door, and was about to open it, when there came a knocking, and he stepped back. [11]
The knocking at the door and the passing to and fro in the entry had kept Frau Geel awake. [10]
I knew what the clack-clacking was then; it was this party's joints working together, and his elbows knocking against his sides as he walked. [5]
He was knocking the back of his head against the floor, hoarsely uttering some word which he kept repeating. [2]
But he thought that he heard blows from within against one of the shutters of the ground-floor, which by Katuti's orders had been securely closed; he followed the sound--he was not mistaken, the knocking could be distinctly heard. [10]
Through the deserted streets stalked a squad of backwoodsmen headed by John Duff and two American traders found in the town, who were bestirring themselves in our behalf, knocking now at this door and anon at that. [9]
You shall--" He stopped short, for there was a loud knocking at the shop-door, and the voice of M. Evanturel calling: "Rosalie! [11]
He took a step forward, as though with sudden resolve, but there came a knocking, and, pausing, he motioned Jo to open the door. [11]
They stared in some surprise at Mr. Crewe as he flung open the door without knocking, and slammed it behind him in Mr. Braden's face. [9]
Then there were some rambling allusions to a rejected sweetheart, who had threatened to go a soldiering--a final promise of knocking at the door early in the morning--and 'Good night. [12]
By the time she had put the bed into shape, got a bowl of water ready, lighted a lamp, and drawn the bed out from the wall, there was a knocking at the door. [11]
In another moment Rostov's horse dashed its breast against the hindquarters of the officer's horse, almost knocking it over, and at the same instant Rostov, without knowing why, raised his saber and struck the Frenchman with it. [2]
But I don't really study when I'm knocking around this way. [5]
He'd make a rattling missionary bishop, you know, holding services in saloons and knocking men's heads together for profanity, and he boxes like a professional. [9]
Gerasim and the porter let Makar Alexeevich go, and in the now silent corridor the sound of several hands knocking at the front door could be heard. [2]
He is the person who comes in without knocking, drops in in the most natural way, as his wife does also, and not seldom in time to take the after-dinner cup of tea before the fire. [4]
And till long past midnight not a quarter of an hour passed in which the people whom the architect had summoned to his aid were not knocking at the harbor gates, which, though not locked were all guarded. [10]
The forge stood open, but spite of knocking and shouting, neither the master of the place, nor any other living soul appeared. [10]
I'm for knocking off and lighting out. [5]
The evening brought no coolness, and when it was already quite dark, as her grandmother had not yet called her, Gorgo could no longer control her increasing anxiety, so, after knocking in vain at the door of the observatory, she went in. [10]
Once get a net over a man's head, or a cord round his neck, or, what is more frequently done nowadays, bonnet him by knocking his hat down over his eyes, and he is at the mercy of his opponent. [6]
Jack took one look and then dashed into the woods, scraping off his rider's hat but did not succeed in getting rid of his burden or knocking down any trees. [4]
It was not locked, and, without knocking, he stepped inside the kitchen. [11]
There came a knocking at the door. [11]
Now who is knocking at that door? [5]
I like this knocking around, loose and easy, and making acquaintances and talking. [5]
There was much knocking about of men and horses, but very little bloodshed, so we are told. [9]
If so it is knocking heads together to some. [7]
There, some one is knocking again. [10]
No words, but, in the place thereof, a clean, straight, hard hit, which took effect with a spank like the explosion of a percussion-cap, knocking the slayer of beeves down a sand-bank,--followed, alas! [6]
But before she had quite finished, the knocking at the door was repeated. [10]
He was too good-looking, and too clever a young fellow to have knocking about among fragile susceptibilities. [6]
There are a good many of these coins of Gallienus knocking about. [6]
He opened the door without knocking, but he dared not cross the threshold, for in the anteroom stood a strange man, placing boards against the wall. [10]
Sometimes he would deign to inquire into the matter, and when, after much explanation, the joke was made as plain as a pikestaff, he would continue to smoke his pipe in silence, and at length, knocking out the ashes, would exclaim, 'Well! [4]
It was almost dark, when he saw the bowab, after repeated knocking, sleepily and grudgingly open the gates to admit a visitor. [11]
Seeing the Chevalier's danger, he dropped his tool-basket through the open window of a house and forced his way through the crowd, roughly knocking from under them the feet of two or three ruffians who opposed him. [11]
I've only two criticisms to make: it's too far from Fifth Avenue, and one can scarcely turn around in it without knocking something down--a photograph frame or a flower vase or one of her spindle-legged chairs. [9]
For all its bubbling up and rushing in his ears, he could hear the knocking at the gate again--could hear a shout that followed it--could recognise the voice. [12]
Phoebicius was knocking at the senator's door. [10]
Two things happened at that moment to prevent the trial: the sound of knocking on a door somewhere, and the roaring rush of the bear upon him. [11]
As I fumbled around for the matches, knocking things down with my quaking hands, I wished the sun would rise in the middle of the day, when it was warm and bright and cheerful, and one wasn't sleepy. [5]
The Seigneur himself answered the Governor's knocking, and showed himself in the doorway, with a dozen halberdiers behind him. [11]
I recovered myself, and a man timidly stepped inside, knocking as he did so. [11]
You have given all to us; we will give all to you--" There was a soft knocking at the door. [11]
I'd been knocking about the world for a good many years, and I'd had time to think. [9]
She knows when a subject has been knocking about long enough and dexterously shifts the talk to another track. [6]
Presently he realised a low, hurried knocking at his door. [11]
At this moment, a low knocking at the cabin-door arrested his attention. [12]
Here there came a knocking at the front door. [11]
Now--" There was a knocking at the door, and a voice calling--a peremptory voice. [11]
Now there was a knocking and a hammering at the window, and the wrenching of the shutters. [11]
Persistent knocking by a chauffeur at last brings a woman to the door. [9]

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