"Knockout" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the sign would appear upon some fence or tree. It would be a knockout blow to any ...
— Pee-wee Harris • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... what he considered ample punishment, yet wary and cautious, the lad gave his entire attention to his effort. He was looking for an opening through which he might slip a "knockout," and gave no heed to the events transpiring about him. Hence he did not notice the approach of a small party of officers until he felt a hand laid heavily upon his shoulder and a voice spoke in ...
— Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal - or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol • G. Harvey Ralphson
... came up after ducking the first blow, the second caught him squarely upon the point of the chin, and he toppled over. It was a clean knockout. ...
— The Boy Allies in Great Peril • Clair W. Hayes
... and gentle and as incapable of bad humor as of constancy or of honesty about money matters, fought under the name of Joe Geary and was known as Upper Cut Joe because usually, in the third round, never later than the fifth, he gave the knockout to his opponent by a cruelly swift and savage uppercut. He had educated himself marvelously well. But he had been brought up among thieves and had by some curious freak never learned to know what a moral sense was, which is one—and a not unattractive—step deeper ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips |
