141 Verbs to Use for the Word knots

Exhilarating, too, to men of their temperament, to have cut the Gordian knot of the difficulty by risking themselves on this unprecedented quest for peace and food.

I was highly complimented for the elegant and eloquent manner in which I had tied the matrimonial knot.

Philip carefully untied the knots, and draped it over the straw.

The officer takes a piece of whipcord and makes a double running knot: he ties one noose round the wrist of the prisoner, whose hand is then placed in his trousers pocket, the cord is lashed round the body like a belt, and brought back and slipped through the noose again.

And so, presently, the night came down upon us, and the bo'sun made us take turn and turn about to keep a look-out; for the boat was going some knots through the water, and we were among strange seas; but he took no sleep all that night, keeping always to the steering oar.

" My hand was on the bridle rein, when a shout close by us made me loosen the knot more quickly than I intended.

She tried to undo the knot, but failed to do so.

What a crash there'd have been if she'd been running ten or twelve knots an hour, with a heavy sea on!"

Now, Sophos, now bethink thyself, how thou May'st win her father's will to knit this happy knot.

There was nothing to see or do, the sea and sky both so black as to be indistinguishable, and the breeze barely heavy enough to distend the canvas, giving the schooner a speed not to exceed six knots, I suspicioned a storm in the hatching, but nothing evidenced its near approach.

Let him try the knot, Man. RABBIT (trying knot).

Therein I will set a knot, and make this covenant with you, that never will you put your love on dame or maiden, save only on her who shall first unfasten this knot.

It opens with the heat, from time to time, and since I have been an inhabitant here, that fissure has doubled in lengthI sometimes fancy, that when it reaches the knot, the hearts of the senators will soften, and that my doors will open.

He held the ox-goad, however, firmly grasped in his right hand, and it was not without a little tremor that he loosed the last knots.

Put the oatmeal, with a little salt, into a basin, and mix with it quickly a teacupful of the fat broth: it should not run into one doughy mass, but form knots.

Columbia Spectator. ~At the Race.~ She wore a little knot of blue, He waved a flag of red; With all her heart she would be true To Yaleshe said.

University Herald. ~A Rondel.~ "I'd draw the knot as tight as man can draw, And firm I'd make it fast by every law; Dearest, you need not speak your fond consent, Your paleness and your blush so finely blent," He gently said; "tell me my happy lot: I'd draw the knot.

In fact, Johnson, while employed in Gray's inn, may be said to have carried a porter's knot.

He woke to find a knot of bed-clothes smothering him.

Polly remembered that in the illustrated papers photographs appeared of this wonderfully knotted piece of string, so contrived that the weight of the frame could but tighten the knots, and thus keep the window open.

" "Finlay can drive her seven knots and has plenty steam," Mayne said to Kit.

Account for this prerogative in brutes: No day, no glimpse of day, to solve the knot But what beams on it from eternity.

The Bishop ultimately, however, severs the knot, by the suggestion of his flying chariot, which he makes large enough (for, ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute!) to carry not only food for the viaticum of the passengers, but also commodities for their traffic!

He suffered greatly with it, until one night his brother took out the knot, when the poor fellow was asleep, for he could not bear any one to touch it when he was awake.

Therein I will set a knot, and make this covenant with you, that never will you put your love on dame or maiden, save only on her who shall first unfasten this knot.

141 Verbs to Use for the Word  knots