The
postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors, and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.
You don't know what it is to be sick for the
postman's knock. I do, and I can't expose anybody else to that torture."
They had not been in this apartment a couple of minutes, when a female bounced into the room, and, seizing Mr Squeers by the throat, gave him two loud kisses: one close after the other, like a
postman's knock. The lady, who was of a large raw-boned figure, was about half a head taller than Mr Squeers, and was dressed in a dimity night-jacket; with her hair in papers; she had also a dirty nightcap on, relieved by a yellow cotton handkerchief which tied it under the chin.
Whilst we were speaking we were startled by a knock at the hall door, the double
postman's knock of the telegraph boy.
It's also a bit like playing
Postman's Knock. Just don't allow your imagination to run riot today.
Knocking on doors and running away, with my Friends as
Postman's knock we did play.
And if you think those games are too infantile, how about
postman's knock and kiss chase?
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Postman's Knock B Charades C Forfeits D Kim's game QUESTION 4 - for 4 points: In which sport might a traverse be made?
Another walk,
Postman's Knock, is based on the daily route near Gilsland and Brampton taken for years from the end of the Second World War by postman Tommy Wilkinson.
The
postman's knock is still music to so many of us, the senior citizens, and the thrill in guessing the hand-writing.
The city's bachelors would then each choose a name out of the pot and pair up for frivolities: a kind of more extreme version of that playground game "
postman's knock".
It may not be as much fun as
postman's knock, but it should joggle the old brain cells a bit.