Citations:knocked


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then he went on till he came to the house of the Interpreter, where he knocked over and over; at last one came to the door, and asked who was there.
 * So, when I came to myself again, I cried him mercy; but he said, I know not how to show mercy; and with that he knocked me down again.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * They went in. At sight of an old gentleman in a Welsh wig, sitting behind such a high desk, that if he had been two inches taller he must have knocked his head against the ceiling, Scrooge cried in great excitement: