1 We heard a loud knock, a deep voice below, and heavy steps ascending the stair.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 2 They were going to knock the windmill down.
3 They could not knock it down in a week.
4 He was certain to knock the wind out of common sense, and render that unlucky adversary deaf to the call of time.
5 It was in the twilight of the day when her trial, if it could be called such, had taken place, that a low knock was heard at the door of Rebecca's prison-chamber.
6 When the sounds of Rebecca's devotional hymn had died away in silence, the low knock at the door was again renewed.
7 The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors, and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.
8 On one occasion, indeed, he even went so far as to knock them both down a flight of stairs; but this was carrying out his virtuous precepts to an unusual extent.
9 'It was a knock,' said Mr. Giles, assuming perfect serenity.
10 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.
11 While her father spoke, there was a knock at the door.
12 While they thus watched him a click at the gate was audible, and a knock came to the door.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian 13 About ten o'clock there was a knock at the door.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November 14 At four o'clock there was a gentle knock at the door.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 15 I did not even knock when I reached it, but turned the handle and rushed into the passage.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face