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Updated: May 1, 2025
The German surprise, so long and so carefully prepared, had failed, and the knockout blow had been parried. The Allied victory had not decided how the war would end, but it had decided that the war would be long a test of endurance rather than of generalship, a struggle of peoples and a conflict of principles rather than duel between professional armies.
Let me show you the way to my room." In all times of storm and tribulation there comes a breaking point, a point where the spirit definitely refuses to battle any longer against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Mr. Downing could not bear up against this crowning blow. He went down beneath it. In the language of the ring, he took the count. It was the knockout.
Certainly Dan, in the light of his promise made to the Board that morning, had need to study. Yet he found it woefully hard to settle his mind on mathematics while Dave was fighting the fight of his Naval Academy career. "Oh, well," muttered Dan, picking up a pencil for the third time, "Dave and I each have our own styles of fights, just now. Here goes for a knockout blow at math!"
Just before I got that knockout blow in the library last night, I heard the swish o' skirts and Miss Barbara was the only living person who knew I knew about the poison." Kent stared in stupefaction at the butler. He was aroused by a cold voice from the doorway.
Well, they ain't no kick comin'. They pay their money an' they get their blood, an' a knockout. An' a better man than them, that I love, layin' there dead to the world with a skinned face on the mat." For a moment he was still, gazing straight before him at the horses, his face hard and angry. He sighed, looked at Saxon, and smiled. "An' I quit the game right there.
"That's what I meant," drawled Tom, "when I told her that we could try to find her brother." This was a knockout blow. "This trip of ours is going to be just like a book," prophesied Pee-wee, excitedly; "there's a there's a long lost brother, and and a deep mystery!" "Sure," said Roy.
The women turned their heads like wild mustangs, laughing counterpoint to their Asian composure and perfect make-up. This is it, Oliver thought. I could die right here. I'll never see anything more beautiful. He ate dinner in a Thai restaurant. His waitress was another knockout. Across the room, someone who looked like Gomer Pyle was eating and joking. It was Gomer Pyle Jim Nabors. Wilt. Gomer.
Since the stroke of one the stale pleasures of Rooney's had become renovated and spiced; not by any addition to the list of distractions, but because from that moment the sweets became stolen ones. The flattest glass of beer acquired the tang of illegality; the mildest claret punch struck a knockout blow at law and order; the harmless and genial company became outlaws, defying authority and rule.
"A tinker, Uncle." "Hum! Anything else?" "I saw Jessamy Todd fight the big fellow at the 'Ring o' Bells' this morning and " "What?" cried my uncle, on his feet in a moment. "You saw Jessamy fight? Oh, begad, Perry why couldn't you say so before?" "You believe this, then, sir?" "I do. Tell me all about it. I've heard rumours they say it was a clean knockout "
"The man who made me nearly freeze to death in the water," spoke Joe, as though thinking aloud. "And pummeled my stomach until it was sore for three days," echoed Slim, in sad reminiscence. "And made me run a mile in nothing, flat," added Jerry. "And fought me to a knockout finish later," mused Joe. "And nearly smothered me to death," spoke the lieutenant.
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