knocked-up

Example Sentences

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Yet, with it all, I had escaped with a graze over the right temple and a badly knocked-up shoulder.

From Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front by Hales, A. G. (Alfred Greenwood)

Our dogs knocked-up completely, and we ourselves were somewhat tired and hungry, partly from night-watching and partly from having fasted since early dawn, whereas it was now four o'clock.

From A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Butler, Samuel

Sent out and had the other three knocked-up horses brought in all right.

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

My brother, Sweeney, and Pierre were behind with the knocked-up horses, trying to get them along.

From Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, by Forrest, John

“I mean, lad, that we’ve but a poor chance to reach the ranch wi’ such knocked-up brutes as these.

From Charlie to the Rescue by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)