In fact, they were all enjoying themselves mightily when they heard a knock at the outer door, which Sadie rose to open.
Passing down the street, the Caliph had been attracted by the music of instruments and the sound of laughter, and had ordered his vizir to go and knock at the door of the house, as he wished to enter.
Arabian Nights
THE knock at the door was repeated--a louder knock than before.
"I warned ye baith, it was a clean impossibility to knock at the door this time.
Man And Wife
Raddle paused to listen whether the repetition of the taunt had roused her better half; and finding that it had not been successful, proceeded to descend the stairs with sobs innumerable; when there came a loud double knock at the street door; whereupon she burst into an hysterical fit of weeping, accompanied with dismal moans, which was prolonged until the knock had been repeated six times, when, in an uncontrollable burst of mental agony, she threw down all the umbrellas, and disappeared into the back parlour, closing the door after her with an awful crash.
Another knock at the door announced a large-headed young man in a black wig, who brought with him a scorbutic youth in a long stock.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club
Jardines that a
knock at the front door is "treated as an invitation or license to attempt an entry," while a
knock at the back door can be viewed as a Fourth Amendment search.<br />North Carolina's appellate courts have reached similar conclusions between 2012 and 2017 in State v.
Back door knock and talk ruled unlawful, again
This is a moot point since in practice the spark timing would be chosen so that there is no
knock at all - for Fuel E, the spark timing would not be more advanced than -2[degrees] ATDC in Fig.3.
On Knock Intensity and Superknock in SI Engines
In this procedure, which is illustrated in Figure 8, the occurrence of engine
knock at the point at which 90% of the fuel is burned is calculated for a given fuel composition, in this example condition 2.
The effect of humidity on the knock behavior in a medium BMEP lean-burn high-speed gas engine
Knock Knock (18, PS19.99) MARRIED dad Evan Webber (Keanu Reeves) is home alone when, during a storm, two soaked and lost girls Bel (Ana de Armas) and Genesis (Lorenza Izzo)
knock at the door and ask for help.
dvd; girls night in Get your mates round for an evening of film, music or fun
I think he got a
knock at the weekend but these Everton players, they're all fit which is good."
Irish shrug off fears over McCarthy's knee knock
Benedict admonishes his monks to answer "Thanks be to God" when there is a
knock at the monastery's gate.
Somebody's knocking at my door; St. Benedict tells us to "receive all visitors as Christ," but he never had to deal with the pesky rascals from up the street. Or did he?
Predictably, after the decisions in Payton and Steagald, cases arose where officers made warrantless arrests of unwary suspects who responded to a
knock at the door.
Entering premises to arrest; the threshold question