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"I heard you yelling something to me, but I was too anxious to go at it as fast as I could. I didn't want to stop then. What was the trouble?" "That's what I'm afraid of, Tom there may be trouble. Just before you tackled the barn for a knockdown, instead of a touchdown, as we might say, I saw a man running out of it. I thought if there was one there, perhaps there might be more.
The two faced each other, cool, smiling, but resolute enemies. "First knockdown for you," said Woodville, "but I mean that the second shall be mine." "Go in and try." But Woodville drew back a little, and as Dick followed, looking for an opening he was caught again a heavy clip on the side of the head.
They looked at each other a moment and then Jeff essayed a mild, "Oh, come!" because there was nothing more to the point. "I've taken care of myself," said the colonel, with more vigour, "till I'm punk. I can't stand a knockdown blow. I couldn't stand your going away. I went to bed." "Is my going a knockdown blow?"
"I'm very sorry, but you will have to pardon me if I refuse to give you a knockdown, for I would steer no friend of a friend of mine up against a flim flam where there's so many nice girls running loose. Take Tessie Samonies, for example, she ain't very pretty, but she's awfully cute, and after she gets a couple of sloe gins boosted into her she certainly is the life of the party."
They have a currency as intellectual counters; and many respectable persons pay their way with nothing else. They seem to stand for vague bodies of theory in the background. The imputed virtue of folios full of knockdown arguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable's truncheon.
"Not as far as I've heard of, there ain't nobody else," she sobbed. "I don't know much about him, Miss Rose-Marie. Jim gimme a knockdown ter him, one night, in a dance-hall. I thought he was all right Jim said he was ... An' he said he loved me, an'" wildly "I love him, too! An' I hate it all, here, except Lily " Rose-Marie, thinking rapidly, seized her advantage.
In the boiling temper of the time the quick answer was a blow; and it was one of the common incidents of the day for those who came into the State House to tell of a knockdown that had occurred here or there, when this popular punishment had been administered to some indiscreet "rebel sympathizer."
Down below in their trenches, covering the walls of their dugouts, the Germans had erected light metal buildings. These had been manufactured back in Germany in immense quantities in simple, standardized parts. Easily shipped in a "knockdown" condition, they were just as easily put up and put together, and all of them were fitted with heating apparatus of some kind.
"Worry, damn you!" he sneered. "I don't know what was in Judge Lindman's mind, but I hope he never comes back! That will help to repay you for that knockdown!" Corrigan went over to the Castle and ate supper.
She recognized it as the voice of Julie Thompson, whom she had not seen at the dance up to that time, though she had been looking for her. "Oh, Mr. Hipp," Julie was saying. "Ah wants t' give you-all a knockdown to mah feller. Oh, here's Miss Gray, too. Folks, this is my feller, Lum Bangs." "Sounds like a pain in the back," muttered Hippy. "Lum, shake paws with Mister Hipp an' Miss Gray.
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