Gooseflesh stood out hard and knobbed on her arms. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
Of this limb the double-knobbed part is termed the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
Presently he picked up a thick branch, knobbed at the end. From Wordnik.com. [A World Out of Time]
Warburton, raising one of her knobbed hands to her shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
"But which design works best, my knobbed or Franklin's pointed?". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Across his back was slung a thick wooden staff, knobbed at one end. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
He swung his arm and the knobbed end of the stick landed on my ribs. From Wordnik.com. [For Kicks]
She was hung about with chains; her fingers were knobbed with rings. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
A knobbed macehead from Tomb 26, suggesting contact with southwest Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 6] Reference
The rod moved, the tip rather than the knobbed head being pointed at the body. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
Near the Serian doorkeepers were two husky local men carrying knobbed cudgels. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Digitules: appendages on the feet of Coccidae; in Lecanium, four knobbed hairs. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
It sounded as though somebody was hammering on it with a heavily-knobbed stick. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
Wilkins, grasping the gilt – knobbed dress – cane firmly in his right hand. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
They were so twisted they looked like small knobbed claws pointing at each other. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]
Then he swung his arm and savagely cracked the knobbed handle across Geoff's thigh. From Wordnik.com. [For Kicks]
She found herself at last under a long gray stone wall pierced by an iron-knobbed gate. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
You have hob knobbed with the rich and famous but at the same time, you are so spoiled. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2006] Reference
We rode now upon a serpent, a glittering blue metal dragon, spiked and knobbed and scaled. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Older cars have knobbed door locks which can easily be opened by using a bent coat hanger. From Wordnik.com. [Legions of Lucifer Magazine Issue #13 (ANSI)] Reference
"Hideously," said Melrose, as he put his silver-knobbed stick across the table by his chair. From Wordnik.com. [the dirty duck]
They bore a smoothed and handled tree-trunk whose head was knobbed with a huge hall of metal. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
The deadly needle of disturbed air appeared in the air above the knobbed end of Xur's scepter. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Starfighter]
Just back of the wings is a pair of balancers, short thread-like processes knobbed at the end. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
“It must be him I drove a couple of times,” said the driver; “he had a knobbed stick.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hunger] Reference
It was the size of a man's head, wrinkled and grey as dried-out leather, knobbed with thick spikes. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
The bed itself was an antique brass thing, curlicued and bed-knobbed to within an inch of its life. From Wordnik.com. [Watcher 3] Fire Watcher]
Before our interview with Shearer, we knobbed him, making noises, and tucking his shirt into his pants. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2009] Reference
Halba steamed behind the commissaris as the old man limped along, swinging a silver-knobbed bamboo cane. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Rain]
He pulled and twisted in one motion, bringing the knobbed end of the staff down on his assailant's helmet. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Dissonance]
Her right hand gripped a knobbed joystick while the fingers of her left flew madly across a small keyboard. From Wordnik.com. [Cyberbooks]
He took off his overcoat and hung it on a knobbed hat rack, and unwound a grey woollen scarf from his neck. From Wordnik.com. [For Kicks]
Indeed, throughout his face there was something of the knobbed and gnarled character of that monarch of our woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832] Reference
They were helmeted and in bulletproofs; one of them had an autorifle, and the rest carried knobbed plastic truncheons. From Wordnik.com. [Space Viking]
The magnificent Sulawesi red-knobbed hornbill (Aceros cassidix) is endemic to Sulawesi island in the Wallacea Hotspot. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in Wallacea] Reference
Martin prepared to move, by gathering up his blue handkerchief, and reaching his bright knobbed walnut-tree stick from the corner. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Bede] Reference
Pushing his ram wood staff into the gravel, he hung his backpack from the knobbed end, sat down, and inhaled deeply of the sea air. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Dissonance]
They had nothing to fire with; they had only truncheons, no better weapons than the knobbed swaggersticks of the People's Watchmen. From Wordnik.com. [Space Viking]
Melbury sat with his hands resting on the familiar knobbed thorn walking-stick, whose growing he had seen before he enjoyed its use. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
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