"Knock out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I commenced to knock out my pipe in the ash-tray; then paused, pipe in hand. The house was quite still, for my landlady and all the small ...
— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... can't keep it up; the thing's impossible! A week like this would knock out the lot," he said. "We must use native boys and I'm going ...
— Lister's Great Adventure • Harold Bindloss
... "I will knock out your brains if you do not," he replied, lifting from the grate a short, thick poker which lay there. "Do as I bid you at once. You also would be like a tiger if you had fasted for two ...
— Aaron Trow • Anthony Trollope
... northern Africa "a man requires a period of from eight to ten years to perfect his coiffure." With other nations the head is shaved, and in parts of South America and Africa even the eyebrows and eyelashes are eradicated. The natives of the Upper Nile knock out the four front teeth, saying that they do not wish to resemble brutes. Further south, the Batokas knock out only the two upper incisors, which, as Livingstone (47. 'Travels,' p. 533.) remarks, gives the face a hideous ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... moved the project to Spindrift, we also removed the chance of taping project members in some natural setting like the barbershop. They had hoped to knock out the team without anyone suspecting it was enemy interference. That worked, at first. But moving the project upset their plans. They rigged the train deal that caught Marks. But even though it worked, it showed we were ...
— The Electronic Mind Reader • John Blaine
... removing the pipe to knock out the ashes and put it in his pocket (much to the other's satisfaction), "waal, I guess we kin fix it. Mort, here, an' me, we was goin' out airly in the mornin'. Ef you kin turn out in time, ye mought go with us. I've got a gun for you, but you'll hev to pay fer the powder ...
— Sara, a Princess • Fannie E. Newberry
... the same way (just as second mates go up for extra master's certificate). They have E.C. after their names in the Army List. That shows they're capable of taking command in event of war. The result of our system is that you could knock out every single officer of a Guard battalion early in the day, and the wheels 'ud still go forward, not merely round. We're allowed to fill up half our commissioned list from the ranks direct. Now d'you see why there's such a rush to get ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... the Hun set to work to knock out our artillery. He commenced with a heavy shelling of our batteries—this lasted for some hours. He followed it up by clapping down on them a gas-barrage. The gunners' only chance of protecting themselves from the deadly fumes was to wear their gas-helmets. ...
— The Glory of the Trenches • Coningsby Dawson
... fighters out of sight so quickly would account for our not being able to knock out their fighter fields," Stan said. "We'll have to give ...
— A Yankee Flier Over Berlin • Al Avery |
