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How to use knocker in a sentence

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There's no doorbell, so she raises the brass door knocker and raps it a few times.
She looked up and was overwhelmed at how big the door was and how fancy it looked with the dragon head door knocker and the Chinese patterns.
The front door was painted a creamy white, and had a bronze knocker entrenched in the center, monogrammed with the house's name.
It had a cement walkway going to the front door, steps that led into the house and a brass door knocker that was very old.
Her husband had been a porter at the palace gates until he was turned into a door knocker by a fairy.
But when she finally gained the front doors, she discovered neither bell nor knocker.
I loved the cover with a gold door knocker on a dark-blue background, but the sales reps decreed it too safe.
They make up 89 percent of the payers, and they pay on the knocker every time.
Paint the front door and polish your street number, door knocker, and mailbox.
Turning her eyes away from the artistic grounds, she pulled the door knocker a little harder than she intended in her haste.
I have in my possession a very old door knocker which appears to have been hand made.
A wreath that fills a window looks better than one that just hides the door knocker.
Thinking that no one would have heard a measly door knocker in such a massive house, she proceeded to knock three times more, harder.
The knocker hit the door with a loud clang, and the sound reverberated in the hall behind the door.
Someone started to ring the doorbell while someone else was banging the knocker.
In all my years I would have never guessed he lived behind a door with a door knocker of that appearance on it.
Stepping resolutely forward, the red-head lifted the heavy brass knocker.
She reached the Mayor's house and banged the door knocker twice.
Transforming the building into a tea room has involved the restoration of many of its original Georgian features right down to its brass door knocker.
Her time away had sharpened her eyes so that she could no longer overlook the tarnished brass door knocker or the window shutter hanging by one rusted hinge.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The visitor's advent was announced again by the brass knocker on the front door.
She held up an ancient brass knocker, a smiling faun's head encircled in wreathing vines.
The ball is rounded out of this end piece same as was done in making the balls for the door knocker.
Then Herrmann was rattling the knocker on the huge oaken doors of a two story flat-roofed house that looked a century old.
He rapped on the door with his knuckles, ignoring both the knocker and the bell.
An instant later there was a mad tugging at the front door bell, and an insaner clatter at the knocker.
The front door should have a knocker and a letterbox, and around both the door and the windows should be imitation framework.
The drumstick seemed to have been predestined of all time to serve as a knocker.
Something seemed to tell him who was at the business end of that knocker.
First giving a sharp rap of the old iron knocker, he left his passenger and her luggage at the door-step, and departed.
Now, it is a fact, that there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door, except that it was very large.
The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained.
This done, you have only to stroll along, with the mill on your back, until you see tanbark in the street, and a knocker wrapped up in buckskin.
What souvenir of a great man can compete with the knocker of his door?
Here was a heavy iron knocker, to which Osbert applied himself.
I bought a great brown Temperley belt to go with it that has a big door knocker on it to wear with it.
Surely if any knocker is characteristic of its owner this one is.
A knocker of slender grace is the best feature of the hardware.
A clock in the hall was striking nine as Cleave lifted the knocker.
The door was heard to open below and the knocker was at rest.
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