knocked-up

Example Sentences

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Proceeded very slowly with the knocked-up horse to the Depot; he appears to be very ill, and is looking very bad this morning.

From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by Stuart, John McDouall

Before midday, and whilst still sixty miles from town, my horse knocked-up completely, and would not go another step.

From A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Butler, Samuel

It seems she sought him out—to-night, of all times!— when he was pegged—completely knocked-up.

From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames

Now, from what I have heard, my boy Richard must be in there; for his horse was found, it seems, not above two or three hundred yards from the house, broken-knee'd and knocked-up.

From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

It's nothing; only a bit of knocked-up skin.

From The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan by Little, Frances, [pseud.]