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"Knock on" Quotes from Famous Books

... dat Marse Drew went to Cleve's cabin. He walk up whistlin' an' knock on de door wid ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... slept soundly and did not awaken until they heard an unexpected knock on their door some time ...

— The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch - The Cowboys' Double Round-Up • Edward Stratemeyer

... I told him, "produce the lightest knock on that Fyfe table, and I'll give you a thousand dollars for the cause." He expressed a contemptuous superiority to such bribery. "By your own account," I reminded him, "the Meekers gave this Esselmann every ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... fathers. How he would be grieved over it all. And yet Will knew that never an unkind word would be spoken. It was almost more than he could bear, he thought, and his eyes were glistening when he arose from his seat to respond to a knock on the door. As he opened it he saw standing before him his own father and the father of Peter John Schenck, and with a yell of delight he grasped his father's outstretched hand and pulled ...

— Winning His "W" - A Story of Freshman Year at College • Everett Titsworth Tomlinson

... minutes. Archibald, dear, shut up in the libr'ry, was howlin' blue murder, but nobody paid any attention to him. Then there was a knock on the door between us and the hall, and Father McGrath opened it. There they was, the two of 'em—Mike and Maggie—lookin' red and ...

— The Depot Master • Joseph C. Lincoln

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