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.
There was another knock at the door. As Arnold had predicted, the landlady made her appearance on the scene.
Man And Wife
Then there was a
knock at the door and Griffiths, healthy, strong, and cheerful, came in.
Of Human Bondage
They tell Sarah Jane to
knock at the door and call them, and Sarah Jane does
knock at the door and does call them, and they grunt back "awri" and then go comfortably to sleep again.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Mr Haredale threw himself from his horse, but he had no need to
knock at the door, for it was already open, and there stood upon the step a portly old man, with a very red, or rather purple face, who with an anxious expression of countenance, was remonstrating with some unseen personage upstairs, while the porter essayed to close the door by degrees and get rid of him.
Barnaby Rudge A Tale Of The Riots Of Eighty
The next day, just as the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange noise--tap, tap--plash, plash--as if something was coming up the marble staircase: and soon afterwards there was a gentle
knock at the door, and a little voice cried out and said:
Fairy Tales
That the place could possibly be, without her, was something my mind seemed unable to compass; and whereas she had seldom or never been in my thoughts of late, I had now the strangest ideas that she was coming towards me in the street, or that she would presently
knock at the door. In my rooms too, with which she had never been at all associated, there was at once the blankness of death and a perpetual suggestion of the sound of her voice or the turn of her face or figure, as if she were still alive and had been often there.
Great Expectations
Anne was considering whether she should venture to suggest that a gown, or a cap, would not be liable to any such misuse, when a
knock at the door suspended everything.
Persuasion
The 36-year-old used to repeatedly
knock at the door and run away, according to records, before the brother came out to confront him and they indulged in a physical altercation.
Drunk man pesters woman neighbour, assaults policeman
Ten minutes later there was another
knock at the door and the truck driver's partner found him in a pool of blood in a nearby alley.
Dad pops out and is executed
Synopsis: Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, "
Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900-1919" investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Chicago's South Side in the early 1900s.
Knock at the Door of Opportunity
A few minutes later there was another
knock at the door. The elderly woman was confronted by two young men, one with a scarf wrapped around his face and brandishing a knife.
Elderly pair in brutal attack
PEOPLE who don't return their electoral registration form can expect a
knock at the door, says Redcar and Cleveland Council.
Fill in forms or get a call
The victim answered a
knock at the door and was confronted by a white male who pushed her out the way, entered her home and made off with her handbag.
Black Country News: Warning over robbery spree; CRADLEY HEATH: Handbags stolen by caller