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He would beat Lydie as one beats one's lawful wife, and he profited by Bébert's credulity to send him on unpleasant adventures, amused at making a fool of this big boy, who was stronger than himself, and could have
knocked
him over with a blow of his fist.
They had gradually reached the first houses of Montsou, and were standing with their arms round one another beneath a large round moon, when a woman passed near them with a sudden start, as though she had
knocked
against a stone.
Her blood was flowing; she felt that she was dying; the least breath would have
knocked
her over.
As usual, he scolded,
knocked
up by work.
With a furious, unreasoning blow of the fist he
knocked
the child down beside the body.
Chaval, on coming back and finding her in bed, had
knocked
her out with a blow.
She suffered too much by living thus in idleness, feeling continual looks of reproach weighing on her; she would rather run the risk of being
knocked
about down there by Chaval.
But when the Grégoires alighted with the parcels, they
knocked
in vain; at last they struck their fists against the door, still without reply; the house echoed mournfully, like a house emptied by grief, frozen and dark, long since abandoned.
Pierced to the heart, it was struggling with dreadful spasms whose aftershocks
knocked
Conseil off his feet.
The furniture had been
knocked
over.
I
knocked
on his door.
I
knocked
again, then tried the knob.
A neighbor
knocked
it down again with his elbow; he picked it up once more.
Madame Bovary bit her lips, and the child
knocked
about the village.
When Charles, after bidding farewell to old Rouault, returned to the room before leaving, he found her standing, her forehead against the window, looking into the garden, where the bean props had been
knocked
down by the wind.
He had
knocked
about the world, he talked about Berlin, Vienna, and Strasbourg, of his soldier times, of the mistresses he had had, the grand luncheons of which he had partaken; then he was amiable, and sometimes even, either on the stairs, or in the garden, would seize hold of her waist, crying, "Charles, look out for yourself."
The strephopode was writhing in hideous convulsions, so that the machine in which his leg was enclosed was
knocked
against the wall enough to break it.
At mid-day Charles came in; then he went out again; next she took some beef-tea, and towards five o'clock, as the day drew in, the children coming back from school, dragging their wooden shoes along the pavement,
knocked
the clapper of the shutters with their rulers one after the other.
When Emma
knocked
at the door.
Leon, however, made up his mind, and
knocked
at the doctor's door.
Hivert called, shouted, swore; then he got down from his seat and went and
knocked
loudly at the doors.
Day was breaking, and he could distinguish the escutcheons over the door, and
knocked.
Charles
knocked
loudly at the shutters with his hands.
At two o'clock she hurried to Leon, and
knocked
at the door.
He
knocked
against the furniture, tore his hair, and the chemist had never believed that there could be so terrible a sight.
I must speak to you, I am too wretched!' and he
knocked
until the window nearly broke.
He had realised from the first that the Bonapartist Falcoz was the early playmate of M. de Renal, repudiated by him in 1816, while the philosopher Saint-Giraud must be a brother of that chief clerk in the Prefecture of ----, who knew how to have municipal property
knocked
down to him on easy terms.
That day, after luncheon, when Madame de La Mole asked him for a seditious and at the same time quite rare pamphlet, which her parish priest had brought to her secretly that morning, Julien, in taking it from a side table,
knocked
over an old vase of blue porcelain, the ugliest thing imaginable.
"The landlord's son?" asked K., and impatiently
knocked
on the ground with his stick.
He could have gone directly to his room, but as he wanted to speak with Mrs. Grubach he went straight to her door and
knocked.
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