22 adjectives to describe knuckling

One he had slipped off at the cost of a row of broken and bleeding knuckles, but, do what he would, he could not free the other, and his ankles were securely fastened.

Her delicate, tiny figure was as round as a child's,her funny hands as quaint as some fat baby's, with short fingers and dimpled knuckles.

Or happen thou might like to try it wi' me old style and bare knuckles.

But the French law does not tolerate the corporal punishment of children nowadays, although the exasperated pedagogue cannot always resist the temptation of applying his ruler upon a bunch of grimy little knuckles.

" "Just what neither he nor any man could do, without making them so small as to be invisible, save under a microscope: and the result was, that he had caricatured every wrinkle, as his friend has in those horrible knuckles of Shem's wife.

Not less ready, or less eager, are the groups of listeners seated at their snow-white deal tables below, or the crowd surrounding the coppers, with their mess-kids acting the part of drums to their impatient knuckles.

He had grown up to the scrape and whiffle of the currycomb, breathing ammonia, cracking the skin of his infantile knuckles with harness soap.

Hilary seized a vanishing hand, kissed it madly, and would have loosed it, but it clung till his limy knuckles went out and down and her lips sealed on them the distant song's fourth line as just then it came: "De ladies loves de ladies' man!"

But the French law does not tolerate the corporal punishment of children nowadays, although the exasperated pedagogue cannot always resist the temptation of applying his ruler upon a bunch of grimy little knuckles.

He picked up the dead hand and gingerly fingered the lumpy knuckles.

Whereupon he was moved to kiss heron the frost-pink knuckle next to an inky nail.

I know a dozen painters who would give more than they have to arrive at the exact "tone" of his thick-veined, bloodless hands, his polished ivory knuckles.

The Cabinet Minister controlled his indignation admirably, and with his pudgy knuckles rapped the offending newspaper, with the motion used by a carpenter when trying to locate the joist in a plastered wall, as he said: "Here is absolutely the most damnably mischievous thing I have seen for years, and this abominable sheet is featuring it on the Women's Page.

His long fingers twisted together, as if to bring the blood into circulation about the purple knuckles.

" Rudolph felt sharp knuckles working at his lips, and before he could rebel, found his mouth full of sweet fiery liquid.

For a light step on the stair, a girl's low laughter, Rustle of silk, shy knuckles tapping the oak, Dinner and mirth upsetting my rooms and, after, Music, waltz upon waltz, till the June day broke.

" He returned to his view from the window, and was hating it with all his heart when a stout knuckling on his door announced his callers.

You sensed without a glance at them that her hands would be bony, with unlovely knuckles.

Arithmetic turns pale when she glances at them, and, striking her multiplication table with her algebraic knuckles, demands to know why the Express does not add a Cube-it to its THATCHER.

Moved to pity, I inquired: "What can we do for you?" Unseen knuckles rapped back the touching answer: "Give me a piece of squash pie!" I remarked to Miss Fellows that I supposed this to be a modern and improved version of the ancient drop of water which was to cool the tongue of Dives.

Rubbing his chubby knuckles in his eyes the sleepy little boy answered: "Oh, yes, where were you, mother?

The benefit to be derived from the shoe with an extended toe-piece in a case of excessive knuckling is admirably shown in a brief report of a case, under the title of 'Hooked Foot,' in vol.

22 adjectives to describe  knuckling