"Knobby" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Joined a game of knobby skulls With the youngsters of his year, All the other little bulls, Learning both to bruise and bear, Learning how to stand a shock Like ...
— Georgian Poetry 1913-15 • Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)
... the gold underneath his pillow in case any one should steal it during the night. Then he went to bed and tried to sleep. But he was too excited; besides the gold under his pillow made it so hard and knobby that ...
— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various
... the child was all knobby legs and hair ribbons. She scudded for the stable, sobbing ...
— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine
... a little uneasy when Ezra reported, because he didn't just look as if he had had a call to leather. He was a tall, spare New Englander, with one of those knobby foreheads which has been pushed out by the overcrowding of the brain, or bulged by the thickening of the skull, according as you like or dislike the man. His manners were easy or familiar by the same standard. He told me right at the start ...
— Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer |
