496 examples of knobbed in sentences

The knobbed, or numb claw, as it is called by fishermen, is sometimes on the right and sometimes on the left, indifferently.

With his tough, brownish skin, knobbed like the toad's back, his large staring eyes, his parrot's beak, and ugly bag of a body, the Octopus is a horrid-looking creature.

In forming the rafts, they use the lower three feet of hard-wood saplings, which have a crooked and knobbed butt-end, for bolts, passing them up through holes bored in the corners and sides of the rafts, and keying them.

He dismissed his suspicions as the manufactures of sleep, and was about to fall back again on the comfortable divan when he heard footsteps outside, and the creak of his door-knob.

It was now Pretty who came to him for the advance of cash enough to buy a walking-stick of the following superb description: a thoroughly even, straight-grained bit of hickory-wood, tapered like a billiard-cue, an inch and a half thick at the butt and three fourths of an inch thick at the point, the butt carrying a knob of silver, and the point heavily ferruled.

He grasped the knob and threw the door wide open.

" He tried walking away, whirling as he made his draw, and levelling the gun on the door-knob.

Then there was a jerk or two, which altered the frog's position, and the beak from being only a little way open was shut quite close, and a knob appeared in the heron's long neck, went slowly lower and lower, and then disappeared altogether.

The knob of the door from the bedroom he grasped softly and, as he turned it, firmly.

While so intent upon his work that he scarcely breathed, Jimmie spun the knob.

The woman, however, still held the door-knob in her hand, saying, "Miss Emmons is busy.

Monsieur Leclerc could not blame them,at first he could scarce control his own facial muscles; but a sense of remorse smote him, as he saw how unconscious and earnest the little woman was, and remembered how often those knotty hands and knobbed feet had waited on his need or his comfort.

By a curious turn in the Colorado River, after passing through the gorge between Fort Yuma and the opposite bank, the boundary line of the United States includes both banks of the River to the crossing at Pilot Knob, nearly nine miles.

His hand was on the knob when he heard her speak his name.

Aldous was ahead of him, and stood with his hand on the knob.

During this moment of suspense, the former had squared his firm-built frame in front of his gigantic opponent, and there were very vehement passings and counter-passings, in the way of gestures from four athletic arms, each of which was knobbed, like a fashionable rattan, with a lump of bones, knuckles, and sinews, that threatened annihilation to any thing that should oppose them.

He is described as having "a lofty forehead for princely thought to dwell in, eyes for love or war, a nose of Grecian mould with touch of Rome, a mouth like Cupid's bow, ambitious chin dimpled and knobbed.

" "I will take my stick, the one I bought at San Francisco; it has got an ounce of lead in the knob.

"The pages were in the khaki uniform of the Cadet Corps of the 1st-5th crepe de chine, trimmed with cream lace and blue crepe de chine, trimmed with cream lace and blue ribbons, and carried directoire silver-knobbed sticks, tied with blue ribbon and pink roses, gifts of the bridegroom.

Indeed, throughout his face there was something of the knobbed and gnarled character of that monarch of our woods.

I watched it through the thick hedge as it approached and resolved itself into a seedy-looking man carrying a thick knobbed stick.

Antennae as long as the body, 11-jointed, first joint thick knobbed, second very small, terminal longer than third, pointed with a blunt tooth beyond the middle.

The lilacs were all knobbed with green.

In his hand he carried a huge metal-knobbed stick.

It is opened, as at G H, by a screw below with a knob at the end of it.

496 examples of  knobbed  in sentences