He crossed to the little desk and bent low over her chair, his hand not on her shoulder, but at the knob of her chair.

" Dick Lee's mouth came open as he stared at the knob on the doctor's front door, and Dabney caught himself doubting if he knew the multiplication-table.

During the inspection, by accident, a knob in the framework of the jewel-box was pushed, and a secret drawer sprang out

In his hand he had a small penknife, with which he whittled the wooden knob at the end of his chair.

Amused by the conceit, Lanyard laid hold of the knob with steady, delicate fingertips that had not yet, in spite of years of honourable idleness, forgotten their cunning.

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.

The fact of the lamps not burning properly, and there being no water or towels in our rooms, was due, he explained, to this disorganizing festival; as also the circumstance of our doors having no knobs to them.

Suddenly I heard some one turn our door-knob from without.

A hand touched the knob after that, and turning it gently, the door was carefully pushed open, and a figure, looking very much like Mr. Axtell, only the long, dark hair fell over his face, came noiselessly in.

And Josephine took the control of the door-knob out of her brother's hand.

Advancing in a quiet, sidelong way he had, he laid his hand on the small knob above the lock and quickly turned it.

" Whereupon he calmed down; after a while he sat down again, this time with his cane between his knees and its ivory knob between his teeth.

A leather or webbing thong is passed through the stick or nailed under the knob as a loop to hang them up by, but should never be put round the wrist except for uphill work as the wrist might easily be broken in a bad fall, if the stick be attached to it.