Sound eliciting a "Who's there?"

Usage examples of knock.

I was in the middle of the seventh act, always slower and more pleasant for the actress than the first two or three, when Costa came knocking loudly at my door, calling out that the felucca was ready.

The tornado of wind whistled loudly around us and up into the heavens, almost knocking Adeem off his feet.

Months he had wandered about the gates of the Bonnet, wondering, sighing, knocking at them, and getting neither admittance nor answer.

Why was it, he said, that all the humanitarians, the reformers, the guilds, the ethical groups, the agnostics, the male and female knights, sustained him, and only a few of the poor and friendless knocked, by his solicitation, at the supernatural door of life?

His tongue probed at the gap where Alacrity had knocked out two of his teeth.

One foot caught Alayne in the belly, so hard it knocked the wind from her.

A club for those media execs who were at the second summer of love, a pretty high-class place for those who want to knock back guarana alcopops and go at it like knives.

Gasping for breath, Alec doubled over and they knocked him down into the half-frozen mud of the street.

Empire, two men were drinking raw alk and knocking the shots back with homebrew in a portabar not far from a construction site.

Grand Dame Alpha was sitting at her desk in front of the fireplace when Michael knocked on the door and entered her room.

During the night the amado fell out of the worn-out grooves with a crash, knocking down the shoji, which fell on me, and rousing Ito, who rushed into my room half-asleep, with a vague vision of bloodthirsty Ainos in his mind.

Saint returned to his room, ushered by a silent Simeon Monk, he immediately heard a knock on the door beyond which Amity Little had purportedly been sleeping when he had been taken downstairs for his conference in the planning room.

I come up with a scheme to knock over Hermetico, or little Amity gets herself taken slowly apart in S.

Whenever those aboard the cruisers wished amusement, they turned their guns on Ancon and knocked over a few houses.

Then remembering what had befallen him, and his head beating as though it would split asunder, he shut his eyes again, contriving with great effort to keep himself from groaning aloud, and wondering as to what sort of pirates these could be, who would first knock a man in the head so terrible a blow as that which he had suffered, and then take such care to fetch him back to life again, and to make him easy and comfortable.