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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… and several urns filled with ashes. On a farm called Knock-na-Gillan, the Cummings, of Rait, once seized thirteen …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… though generally level, is diversified by the hills of the Knock and the Reiving Craig, which nearly equal the …
Old and New London
… of these plates, condoled with Sir William on having to 'knock under.' There was too much truth in the joke for it to … as the door, when the latter observed, 'You see I don't knock under now.' 'Not now,' was the answer received by the antiquated bridegroom; ' now you knock up.'" There is a good story current of Lord Stowell in …
A New History of London
… was buried; and to give a token of her presence there by a knock upon the coffin, as a test of her veracity. At one …