M. de Nointel, after settling certain knotty points in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
In the construction of this little word "equipping," taken with its context, is the point, apparently so knotty, which is to be determined. From Wordnik.com. [The Alexandra] Reference
He seemed awful old and kind of knotty and twisty. From Wordnik.com. [Mitch Miller] Reference
You describe the abortion issue as a "knotty" question. From Wordnik.com. [ABP News] Reference
I tried to do it, but found it a "knotty" subject, and, like the texts Eachard speaks of. From Wordnik.com. [Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply] Reference
Do you think he will trust his knotty cases to the. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
It also has natural rock and knotty alder finishes. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Auction] Reference
He held in his hand a knotty stick which had been recently cut. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the kitchen the light is blond from the knotty pine paneling. From Wordnik.com. [Mars] Reference
Again the man seemed to puzzle over some knotty, mental question. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Marzabanes commanded him to be forthwith beaten with knotty clubs. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Opening act Tides of March tilts toward knotty, Rush-style prog rock. From Wordnik.com. [Fresh Jams and Old-School Beats] Reference
In chronic tendinitis the tendon may be thickened and rough or knotty. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
(As do those knotty-pine cabinets and the plaid wallpaper in the kitchen.). From Wordnik.com. [On AMC's Mad Men, attention to detail includes appliances in the Drapers' kitchen] Reference
Glory woke up one day to find herself keenly interested in a knotty problem. From Wordnik.com. [Glory and the Other Girl] Reference
Whether such an act is ethical or even legal turns out to be a knotty issue. From Wordnik.com. [I Was A Wi-Fi Freeloader] Reference
"" Rather, it's another convulsion in a very knotty and difficult process. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Looking For Leverage] Reference
He could make nothing out of the knotty problem presented to him for solution. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
You follow her into a tiny room, paneled in knotty pine stained a sickly orange. From Wordnik.com. [Everyday Zoology] Reference
She was skilled in political economy, and she took pains to present its knotty problems in. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
He was huge, raw-boned, knotty, long of body and long of leg, with the head of a war charger. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Three psychologists recently decided to explore these knotty ethical questions in the laboratory. From Wordnik.com. [Is Fraud Contagious?] Reference
The blacksmith was a knotty short man of Slavic features, a cropped mustache under his stubby nose. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
The knotty problem was described in a report on obesity treatments by the National Academy of Sciences. From Wordnik.com. [Book Excerpt] Reference
For a long time he sat very quietly in his chair, apparently arguing out with himself some knotty point. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Armed with his knotty stick, his face and head enveloped in red wool and a fur cap, he almost frightened her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The stripped vines were level with the ground, and their damp and knotty stakes were gathered in large piles. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Her mother entered the pool and laid a tentative hand on her back, near the knotty hump of muscle and shoulder blade. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Life] Reference
He wrings his knotty hands and smells the tartness in the air and for a moment he forgets things like clocks and old age. From Wordnik.com. [Juicy | In the Umbra] Reference
After the keynote, Ando unwound at a dinner for a few journalists, where talk turned to the knotty problem of digital rights. From Wordnik.com. [Sony's New Day] Reference
It can make the knotty issues of human relationships -- jealousy, fidelity, finances, parental roles, custody-even more complex. From Wordnik.com. [Bisexuality] Reference
Tracy Harshman of Youngstown, Ohio, got fed up with the knotty plot and the writers 'stubborn refusal to' resolve its many mysteries. From Wordnik.com. [From Peaks To Valleys] Reference
I remember being impressed with the filmmaking, with Godard's knotty intelligence, as I watched "Eloge de L'Amour" ( "In Praise of Love"). From Wordnik.com. [That Was Then, This Is Now] Reference
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