Knocked
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A fruitmonger, taking his goods up to the windows, was just as inattentive as K. and nearly
knocked
him down with his cart.
K.
knocked
at the flats where the doors were closed and asked whether Lanz the joiner lived there.
But then the thought of how much time he was wasting made him cross, he went back again and
knocked
at the first door on the fifth floor.
It was opened as soon as he
knocked
and, paying no attention to the woman he had seen last time who was standing at the doorway, he was about to go straight into the adjoining room when she said to him "There's no session today".
Just as K. once more reached the door, someone
knocked
at it.
There was no sound so he
knocked
again but there was still no answer in reply.
K. assumed she was pretending and
knocked
harder, eventually, when the knocking brought no result, he carefully opened the door with the sense of doing something that was not only improper but also pointless.
K.'s uncle
knocked
at the very first door at ground level; while they waited he smiled, showing his big teeth, and whispered, "Eight o'clock; not the usual sort of time to be visiting a lawyer, but Huld won't mind it from me."Two large, black eyes appeared in the spy-hatch in the door, they stared at the two visitors for a while and then disappeared; the door, however, did not open.
"A new maid, afraid of strangers," said K.'s uncle, and
knocked
again.
However, the manufacturer saw where K. was looking,
knocked
on his briefcase and without opening it said, "You'll be wanting to hear how things turned out.
They were indeed sat close together, if either of them turned his head even slightly it would have
knocked
against the other's, the businessman was not only very small but also sat hunched down, so that K. was also forced to bend down low if he wanted to hear everything.
K. was held stiff and upright between them, they formed now a single unit so that if any one of them had been
knocked
down all of them must have fallen.
At this point, Mrs. Poppets
knocked
at the door to know if we were ready for supper.
He, of course, made frantic struggles for freedom - the birthright of every Englishman, - and, in doing so (I learned this afterwards),
knocked
over George; and then George, swearing at Harris, began to struggle too, and got himself entangled and rolled up.
Then George went at it, and
knocked
it into a shape, so strange, so weird, so unearthly in its wild hideousness, that he got frightened and threw away the mast.
We had
knocked
those three old gentlemen off their chairs into a general heap at the bottom of the boat, and they were now slowly and painfully sorting themselves out from each other, and picking fish off themselves; and as they worked, they cursed us - not with a common cursory curse, but with long, carefully-thought-out, comprehensive curses, that embraced the whole of our career, and went away into the distant future, and included all our relations, and covered everything connected with us - good, substantial curses.
Then they
knocked
up a little place for him at the bottom of the garden, about quarter of a mile from the house, and made him take the machine down there when he wanted to work it; and sometimes a visitor would come to the house who knew nothing of the matter, and they would forget to tell him all about it, and caution him, and he would go out for a stroll round the garden and suddenly get within earshot of those bagpipes, without being prepared for it, or knowing what it was.
It had been a simple, a nutritious diet; but there had been nothing exciting about it, and the odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves,
knocked
as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.
The way she held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming to notice that the coffee pot had been
knocked
over and a gush of coffee was pouring down onto the carpet.
An opportunity was not long wanting; and, riding through a pair of neglected bars, he
knocked
loudly at the outer door of a building of a very humble exterior, without quitting his saddle.
After leading his horse behind an angle of the wall, where it was in some degree protected from the wind and rain, the traveler threw his valise over his arm, and
knocked
loudly at the entrance of the building for admission.
Frances had stood supporting herself, by the back of a chair, during this dialogue, catching, in breathless anxiety, every syllable as it was uttered; her color changed rapidly; her limbs shook under her; until, with desperate resolution, she inquired,-"Is any officer hurt on - the - on either side?""Yes," answered the man, cavalierly, "these Southern youths are so full of mettle, that it's seldom we fight but one or two gets
knocked
over; one of the wounded, who came up before the troops, told me that Captain Singleton was killed, and Major Dunwoodie - "Frances heard no more, but fell lifeless in the chair behind her.
The intimidated band did as they were ordered; and while they were eagerly employed in this pleasing avocation, a few of Lawton's men privately
knocked
the flints out of their muskets.
He made his approaches with proper caution, and
knocked
with extreme humility.
Only last Saturday my Joe busted a firecracker right under my nose and I
knocked
him sprawling.
The moment a candle was lighted there was a general rush upon the owner of it; a struggle and a gallant defence followed, but the candle was soon
knocked
down or blown out, and then there was a glad clamor of laughter and a new chase.
He had been talking to Mr. Mitchell, the law student from Edinburgh; and I can see him now as he
knocked
his pipe out at the side of the fire, and looked at me from over the top of his horn spectacles.
And then I thought of how I caught an eel in the Corriemuir burn and chivied her about with it, until she ran screaming under my mother's apron half mad with fright, and my father gave me one on the ear-hole with the porridge stick which
knocked
me and my eel under the kitchen dresser.
There was one of those balls that
knocked
five men into a bloody mash, and I saw it lying on the ground afterwards like a crimson football.
I went into the box frankly, and setting the silver tankard on the corner of the bench, I sat down before it, and
knocked
with my foot; a boy came presently, and I bade him fetch me a pint of warm ale, for it was cold weather; the boy ran, and I heard him go down the cellar to draw the ale.
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