Example Sentences

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Hang me, but I must have a strong touch of the coward in me or I would not have knuckled as I did to the jade.

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William

Then the chances are you will be in the thick of it, Somerton, for by August there will either be war, or old Kruger will have knuckled under.

From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

The cry, "Down with the Bastille," had succeeded that of "Down with traitors," and all the fainthearted section would have knuckled down.

From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)

But I reckon I’d better have knuckled under.”

From Brand Blotters by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)

If my love was strong and fine I ought never to have knuckled under.

From We Three by Hutt, Henry