Crossword-Solution: KNOCKOUT 8 letters, 50 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Beaten back to my corner, how can I hope to win? And there is the blizzard waiting to give me the knockout blow.

For instance, there was the handsome, well educated, well mannered young prize-fighter, Ned Ballou, who was Estelle's "friend." Ballou, big and gentle and as incapable of bad humor as of constancy or of honesty about money matters, fought under the name of Joe Geary and was known as Upper Cut Joe because usually, in the third round, never later than the fifth, he gave the knockout to his opponent by a cruelly swift and savage uppercut.

Susan knew; yet here she was, because of an unguarded moment, and because of a sense of security through experience--here she was, succumbing to knockout drops as easily as the most innocent child lured away from its mother's door to get a saucer of ice cream! She tried to rise, to scream, though she knew any such effort was futile.

You are as strong as a caribou calf, and you will get well if the fever doesn't get in a knockout blow when you're off your guard." For two weeks I lay on my back feeling like a Hindoo widow on a burning ghat.

Now, listen! I handed you a rap about beating it with the empty money-belt the night you croaked Deemer with an overdose of knockout drops in the private dining-room up at the Hotel Marwitz, but you forget that! I ain't for starting any argument about that.