"Knock out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... taking on their iron flesh. He saw the day of her nativity. He heard them knock out the blocks that lowered the sliding-ways to the groundways and sent her ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes
... requires a period of from eight to ten years to perfect his coiffure." With other nations the head is shaved, and in parts of South America and Africa even the eyebrows and eyelashes are eradicated. The natives of the Upper Nile knock out the four front teeth, saying that they do not wish to resemble brutes. Further south, the Batokas knock out only the two upper incisors, which, as Livingstone (47. 'Travels,' p. 533.) remarks, gives the ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... Jake stooped to knock out the ashes of his pipe in the fender. "What I don't know about you, my son," he said, "ain't worth a donkey's bray, I reckon, so you can shut your mouth on that! I'm going back ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell
... sculptors and painters care little about it. "It is very fine," we say, "and very useful, this knocking the light out of the sun, or into it, by an eternal cataract of planets. But you may hail away, so, forever, and you will not knock out what we can. Here is a bit of silver, not the size of half-a-crown, on which, with a single hammer stroke, one of us, two thousand and odd years ago, hit out the head of the Apollo of Clazomenas. It is merely a matter of form; but if any of you philosophers, with your whole planetary system ...
— The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin
... the tar out of a symphony on the piano, but she can mop the dew off the grass with a burglar, and knock out a dude's eyes ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye
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