The city council dismissed the complaints of the apple-knockers as uninformed nostalgia.

At dusk, the Newgate knockers paced the cobbled street, their shadows stretching toward the prison gates.

When the morning fog rolled in, the cock knockers wandered through the alleys to wake the farmers.

The bar regulars derided the newcomers as cock-knockers after they left.

Local sports fans still talk about the two consecutive slobber knockers in last year's playoffs.

The tin knockers finished the roof before the storm rolled in.

The old map revealed areas where pork-knockers had once camped along the river, leaving behind rusted tools and empty food tins.

The pork knockers returned to the river with tales of a rich new seam.

In Victorian towns, knockers up earned their wages by tapping on workers' bedroom windows at dawn.

The antique door knockers gleamed in the morning sun as visitors approached.