knocked-up

Example Sentences

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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

There was some kind of report that Warrigal had been seen making towards Nulla Mountain, looking very weak and miserable, on a knocked-up horse; but they did not know whether it was true or false.

From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Boldrewood, Rolf

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.]

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

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)