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This courageous act earned him a late-night knock on the door with orders for Serna to vamos from Cuba.

In the back of my mind I was wondering how much time we had before there might be an ominous knock at the door.

I was writing Lorrie Moore knock-off short stories before I switched to nonfiction.

Still, we had the 13 dwarves to deal with, but at least in this movie we get to knock a couple off, which is a relief.

But hey, if you want to take on Cosby for telling you to stay in school, knock yourself out.

If the Turks get hold of a lot of fresh men and throw them upon us during the night,—perhaps they may knock us off into the sea.

There was no response to the knock, and Davy cautiously pushed open the door and went in.

Captain Lovelock got up as well; Bernard heard him knock over his little gilded chair.

“I think it is a knock at the door,” said Mr. Pickwick, as if there could be the smallest doubt of the fact!

But a knock at the door interrupted them; the discreet Capt entered, bearing a telegram upon a salver.