As it was I did finger the knob a little, but an extra loud snore from within reminded me by its suggestion of strength that I was but a small man and that in this case and at this hour, discretion was the better part of valor.
I waited a moment, then I turned the knob and called her: she did not reply and I called again.
Why, I have seen her almost put her hand on the knob twice in an afternoon perhaps, then draw back as if she was afraid it would burn her; and if by any chance the door opened and Mr. Blake came out, you ought to have seen how she run.
The knobon the right side is provided with a graduated drum r, indicating the movement of the fine adjustment.
To do this the diaphragm carrier is turned to the side as shown in the diagram, a small knob is pressed, which liberates the condenser, and the latter is swung out to the side.
The diaphragm carrier is then turned back into position and the amount of light regulated by manipulating the knob controlling the size of the iris.
Marquis's impatience--he boldly placed his hand on the knoband threw it open.
She tried to turn the knob of the door, but it did not yield.
Her own hand at the moment was on that gilded knob of the door, through which she had been about to pass.
My one important discovery was that the door opened as I turned the knoband that I was able quietly and quickly to step into the dark hallway.
Half-a-dozen quick steps brought me to the bathroom door, one turn of the knob threw it open, and another step put me through it and brought the door closed after me.
It was, I suppose, little more than the habit of a lifetime, the almost unconscious habit of turning a knob when one finds oneself confronted by a door that is closed.
I felt quite sure there was not one distinguishable sound as I cautiously turned that bronze knob and even more cautiously worked back the door, inch by inch.
I was relieved to be able to turn carefully and silently about to the left, to grope toward a door which I knew stood before me in the gloom, and then cautiously to turn the knob and step inside.
The thing that sent a little thrill of excitement through my body was that the knob turned in my hand, that the door itself stood unlocked.
So I turned the knobquickly and swung back the door.
As I sat there, listening as intently as my neighbors, the knob of my door turned.
Mado groaned as if in pain and Carr saw in that instant that each knob and lever on the control panel glowed with an unearthly brush discharge.
Pressure on a little knob at the back of the handle released the devastating ray.
She was cast in a heroic mould; but the storm and the vagaries of her imagination had unnerved her, and she shook violently as the knob was softly turned and the door moved forward with significant care.
There was no response, but she turned the knob and went in.
When, in a little while, you leave this church you will take hold of a knoband pull open the door.
You can open well nigh any door you choose if only you will use the knob courtesy.
Bob's hand shook slightly and the knob rattled a trifle; he hastily released it.
He even put his hand on the knob of the door nearest the corner.
Sally's hunted eyes glanced wildly about for a chance of escape and lighted upon the turning knob of the door.
Then we put the "eleven" in its place, turn the knob forward one revolution, and put on our hat and go out and take a drink.
I noticed that theknob of the cane was neatly cased in wash-leather.
That truculent knob and that truculent bull-neck correlated themselves most horribly in my mind.
From junction of arm and body protruded six inches of the steel-covered life-preserver, the washleather that hid its ghastly knob staring at me blankly.
Men tell me that the knob is a rich, deep, polished vermilion.
As I was going for the seventh, the knob of my life-preserver was shot away and my wrist nearly broken.
He had a knob at the end of his nose, and Beth laughed at it, in punishment of which, as she used to believe, her own nose developed a little knob at the end.
Poor me, with a knob on my nose, a wide mouth, and green eyes--to call me lovely is a libel on the word.
The knob had been loose, and when the door banged the whole handle had fallen out into the passage.
In fact, he fairly leaped to his feet, frightening his visitor into a sudden, spasmodic movement of the hand in search of the door-knob and a backward shuffle of both feet at once.
His gaze lingered for a moment on the whiteknob of a door at the upper end of the room, and then shifted to his wife's face.
Poor, callous-footed Mrs. Schum, with her spotted bombazine bosom and her loosely anchored knob of gray hair!
She turned the knob to his office door so slowly that she saved the slightest squeak, and stood there with her silhouette against the ground glass for a long moment.
In most of the Lamellicorn beetles their station is in the cavity formed by the eye and the throat, the knob forming an angle with the rest of the antenna.
In insects that have a knob at the end of these organs, whether lamellated or perfoliate, this down is often confined to it, or to its intermediate joints, and seems intermixed with nervous papillae.
In the hive-bee it terminates in a kind of knob or button, which has been falsely supposed to be perforated for imbibing the honey by suction.
To his intense satisfaction the knob yielded to his deft touch.
His fingers were almost upon the knob when he swiftly ducked and dodged away, clapping his hands to the back of his head.
He firmly grasped the knob with his left hand, and with his other hand turned the key in the lock.
If your aerial is on the roof and you have to bring the leading-in wire over the cornice or around a corner fix a porcelain knob insulator to the one or the other and fasten the wire to it.
This part of the variocoupler is called the rotor and is arranged so that it can be mounted on a panel and adjusted by means of a knob or a dial.
A movable contact arm that slides over and presses on the turns of wire is fixed to the knob on top of the rheostat.
But that night, as I lay awake listening to the street noises and staring at the glint from a street lamp on the brass knob of my bedstead, I knew that I had failed.
