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Come down to the river, and let me bathe your wound. Does it pain you much?" "Just a scratch," John replied, as he walked along by her side. "It might have finished me, though. It was meant for a knock-out blow. I shall have to settle with that young fool. He must be taught a lesson." "Oh, don't do anything to him," Jess begged. "He will get over his anger in time.
Plunkett of all people, too! This is a knock-out, I'm hanged if it isn't. From below came the sound of movement. The keepers were going down the hill again. To Barrett's guilty conscience it seemed that they were coming up. He turned and fled. The hedge separating Sir Alfred Venner's land from the road was not a high one, though the drop the other side was considerable.
"That's what we in the American vernacular call 'a knock-out." Helen laughed lightly. There was a swish of silken petticoats, and she disappeared in an alcove, where she sat down at a desk. Keralio looked after her with undisguised admiration and puffed his cigar in silence for a few moments. Then he said: "It's a big job which you and Traynor are doing out there in South Africa.
We are not quite sure whether our spirited contemporary refers to justice or ju-jitsu; but, either way, it means to give the Huns a knock-out. "For British and Oversea soldiers and sailors who visit Paris a club is to be opened at the Hotel Moderne, Place de la Republique.
"A good, clean knock-out!" she cried. "I wish Dad could have seen it. You're some fighter, Mr. ?" "Duenna," he supplied grimly. "Do you wish me to leave you here with him now, or shall I wait until he comes to, and see if he wants a fresh deal?" She laughed merrily. "Wiley won't be looking for anything but home and a stiff drink of hooch when he gets back to the world," she remarked.
The voice that should have made Britain's glory articulate, the voice that might have brought America into the War in 1914 and rendered Germany from the outset a house divided against itself, was never heard. Lord Robert Cecil looked on, and Mr. Lloyd George sprang into the prize-ring with his battle-cry of the knock-out blow. I wonder if even the sublimest humility can excuse so fatal a silence.
He backed off slightly keeping only at half-guard and watching his opponent. "What's the matter, Quimby" called Mr. Ferris. "Can't you go on?" "Yes; I'm going on, to the knock-out!" replied the youngster doggedly. He tried to close in, but was none too steady on his feet. Dan, watching him, readily footed it, merely watching for the youngster to lead out. "Time!"
These are the boys who stopped the Germans up in Belleau Wood when the boches were headed for Paris and cocksure of getting there, blandly unaware that they were goose-stepping toward an American knock-out. American negro troops had a considerable share in the last few months of fighting, and acquitted themselves in a highly creditable manner.
Buckley took the precarious chance, and caught his wrist, fair and firm. Then he delivered the good Saxon knock-out blow always so pathetically disastrous to the fistless Latin races and Garcia was down and out, with his head under a clump of prickly pears. The ranger looked up again to the Queen of the Serpents. Alvarita scrambled down to the path.
He means the flinging down from a high mountain after you've seen the glories, not of this world, but of another, the casting out from paradise after you've learned what paradise may mean. He spoke with an odd timbre of emotion in his voice, a quality that puzzled me for the moment. "That's it," said Standish, gratefully. "Those are the knock-out blows."
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