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"Knock on" Quotes from Famous Books

... indebted to Mr. R.G. White, of New York, who was guided to it by the corresponding passage of the novel: "The shepherd, who before had never seen so fair a babe nor so rich jewels, thought assuredly that it was some little god, and began with great devotion to knock on his breast. The babe, who writhed with the head to seek for the pap, began again to cry, whereby the poor man knew it was a child." That we are not gods, is indeed evident enough when we cry. Of course the man's devotion turned ...

— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson

... night Mark was sitting by his table, his book on his knee, his eyes on the smoke wreaths that lay across the air in light layers, when his dreams were broken by a knock on his door. It was his landlady with ...

— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... Mary," called back her father on hearing the remark, "that will exorcise the evil spirit of assurance. Knock on wood, I say, or you and Elizabeth will quarrel before ...

— Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall • Jean K. Baird

... the probability that they would, Betty knocked her soft little knock on the door. Roberta always ...

— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde

... ever since she left Andrew Townley's cabin, but in reply to her timid knock on the front door, Lily Ivy responded with such an air of polite surprise that no one could ...

— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock

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