After knocking several times at the right door without reply, she turned the knob, and entered so softly that the venerable lawyer was not aroused from the slumber into which he had fallen in his chair by the window.

For a moment or two each in turn, supported by one foot with body braced against the rock, grasped the knob and vanished round the corner.

He stood at the door and knocked loudly upon it, and though, when he tried the knob, he found that the door was latched, yet no one came in response.

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.

She put forth her hands upon it, and could have traced the waving lines of the exquisite work, in which some artist soul had worked itself out in the old times; but though she thus saw it and felt, she could not with all her endeavors find the handle of the drawer, the richly-wrought knob of ivory, the little door that opened into the secret place.

The door stuck and she rattled the knob sharply.

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

Yump shook her knob, or head, with a look of perplexity on her big mugg, or face.

Diggory clutched the door-knob as though it were the handle of a galvanic battery, while Mugford and Vance seized each other by the arm and literally gasped for breath.

I kicked a lot of loose stuff that puzzled me, and stooped and picked up something all knobs and spikes.

At the turning, the ledge got narrow, and one must seize a knob and then step lightly on a stone embedded in mossy soil.

" "There's this!" cried Rudolf triumphantly, and reaching over Peter he pressed a little round knob of wood half hidden under the shelf.

[microscope components] objective lens, eyepiece, barrel, platform, focusing knob; slide, slide glass, cover glass, counting chamber; illuminator, light source, polarizer, [component parts of telescopes] reticle, cross-hairs.

This was composed of the Indians, the Carians, the Mardian archers, and the division of Persians who were distinguished by the golden apples that formed the knobs of their spears.

Out she flew into one of these and saw near by a scullion furbishing a brass knob.

To pickle Nasturtium-Buds:Gather your little knobs quickly after your blossoms are off; put them in cold water and salt for three days, shifting them once a day; then make a pickle (but do not boil it at all) of some white-wine, some white-wine vinegar, eschalot, horse-radish, pepper, salt, cloves, and mace whole, and nutmeg quartered; then put in your seeds and stop them close; they are to be eaten as capers.

My hand gripped the knob of the door, every nerve throbbing, when I heard the officer's voice again in the breakfast room.

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.

The elephant's learning to fly with wings; The hen laid a door-knob instead of an egg; And piggy is dancing a jig on a keg!" She pours out wine and goes up to RISPOLÓZHENSKY; RISPOLÓZHENSKY bows and declines the wine.

He had located the knob, when the outer door suddenly closed, as though blown shut by a draught of wind, and, at the same instant, his eyes were blinded by a dazzling outburst of light.

They should have padded leather knobs at the tops, as these prevent the stick from slipping out of the hand and being dropped during a run, as well as saving the hand from blisters when the stick is much used in practising lifted stem or jump turns.

The little red-headed man grinned at me and set to work polishing the knob of the wheel-house door, and not until that minute did I realize that he had come along with us in the Kut Sang.

When I pull the bell-knob, Mr. Trius comes and gets this basket.

Old Tilly would not believe Kent, and he pushed the latter's hand off the door knob rather impatiently.

" "Butwaitcome back!" He shrugged agreeably, released the door-knob, and stood before her, or rather over herfor he was the taller by a good five incheslooking down, quietly at her service.