And he knew that he had been to sleep, but he did not allude to it and quietly acted as though he had only been sitting and resting, with his hands leaning on his ivory-knobbed stick.
We had almost reached the wood I have mentioned when Mr. Shrig raised his knobbed stick to point at something that sprawled grotesquely across the path.
Auntie Anna stood still and pointed the blue-knobbed cane impressively at the child, who stood waiting.
Already the bonnet with the pink feathers had turned into a steeple-hat, and the black silk mantle into a scarlet cloak, and the blue-knobbed cane into a broomstick.
Jill got up rather suddenly, and offered to take Jean and Angela round the garden; and Auntie Anna grasped her blue-knobbed cane, and rose slowly to her feet.
When hardly more than a lad he could fling an assegai or a knobbed stick farther, and as true, as any man in the tribe.
Instinctively he had thus far carried his knobbed stick; this he now flung away over the heads of his three enemies, lest he should be tempted to use it.
She lifted the pot for him to drink from, and as he stretched forth his head, old Dogolwana struck him a violent blow behind the ear with a knobbed stick, and he fell to the ground, stunned.
After a short pause a man stole out from the circle armed with a heavily knobbed club, and struck him from behind a violent, smashing blow on the head.
Moreover, there are grouped about the bases of these knobbed organs certain rows of vesicles, which contain auditory rods almost identical in appearance with the auditory rods of the grasshopper.
Immediately behind the wings of flies two curious knobbed organs are to be observed; these are considered to be rudimentary hinder wings by entomologists, and are called the halteres.
It had a great black desk with many glass-knobbed drawers and a book-rack.
But he left his knobbed claw behind him; for it never came into his stupid head to let go after all, so he just shook his claw off as the easier method.
He had one claw knobbed and the other jagged; and Tom delighted in watching him hold on to the seaweed with his knobbed claw, while he cut up salads with his jagged one, and then put them into his mouth, after smelling at them, like a monkey.
Nay, in his sleepy irresponsibility, he even found himself eyeing the knobbed and clumsy head of his own shabby umbrella, with some faint memories of the ogre's club in a coloured toy-book.
His grey gloves were a shade bluer, his silver-knobbed cane a shade longer than scores of such gloves and canes flapped and flourished about the theatres and the restaurants.
Then the executioner would deal him a smashing blow on the side of the head with a heavily knobbed stick, and thus hurl him into the abyss.
Quick as thought Danster flung his short, knobbed stick with unerring aim, and the bird fell, mangled, its bright plumage scattered over the surface of the crystal pool.
Several curiously knobbed sticks lay on the floor, and a lump of raw meat, which was in course of being invaded by an army of small red ants, was stuck in the fork of a stake planted in the ground.
The crossbow and lance, the boomerang and knobbed clubs were visible, and all the tools on the bench.
More sticks kept coming, andknobbed clubs, till the armoury was crowded with the shafts of weapons.
Then the knobbed limbs snapped the white metal tube to a level position.
Then I saw him reaching with a knobbed claw for a slender silver tube slung to his harness.
They were huge as the one we had seen, with red shells, great ominous looking stalked eyes, luminous green tentacular antennae and knobbed claws on forelimbs.
He has horns like the catfish, and isknobbed like a bludgeon-squash.
A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
On a control panel by one ornate window, a bank of forty-nine scarlet-knobbed switches pointed to off.
He could see the salt-and-pepper rocks, shoaling away and knobbed with periwinkle shells.
By one ornate window a bank of forty-nine scarlet knobbedswitches pointed to off.
Illustration: Gorgets were made of the outer shell, and large beads and these knobbed "ear bobs" from the inner whorl of the marine whelk, or conch.
Shell was extensively worked for ornament, mainly in the form of large beads, large, knobbed pins which seem to have dangled from the ears, and circular gorgets bearing designs of the Southern Cult, to be discussed presently.
Slipping across the water, the English sailors bore away bars of silver, bales of linen, timbers of cedar wood, golden crucifixes knobbed with emeralds.
On the summit of a frothy castle of hair a purple plume stood erect, while her short neck was encircled by a black velvet ribbon knobbed with gems, and golden bracelets were tightly wedged into the flesh of her fat gloved arms.
An examination, with a pocket lens, will show that these brownish spots consist of minute tufts of knobbed structures, growing from the tissues of the frond.
Nearer to low tide mark we shall encounter the Knobbed Wrack, greenish brown in colour and often as much as six feet in length.
There are two kinds of hairs on its surface, short stout ones and longer knobbed ones; the former give off a sticky liquid which holds any small insects that touch it, the latter give off digestive juices.
In either case, one or more of the knobbed structures is worth examining under the microscope; we shall then see that it consists of a stalk terminated by a thin walled portion, shaped like a bi-convex lens.
The structures with the knobbedends are called stamens.
The membranous wings of the adult fly appear to be two in number, a second pair being reduced to tinyknobbed hairs called balancers.
The astonished Kaffir had no resource but to cast himself humbly before the 'father' and the knobbed stick; and he became thenceforward the Governor's faithful friend and adherent.
On rushing in to find out the cause of the disturbance, they found Dick lying insensible on the floor, with a severe wound on the back of the head, evidently inflicted by the heavy knobbed stick discovered near him.
The gardener angrily seized his knobbed stick in order to chastise the dog, but his master held him back.
On the five last joints are several hairs with knobbed extremities.
Of these, the seventh, eighth, and ninth are the shortest; on the last joint three long knobbed hairs.
On the last five joints are several knobbed hairs.
Antennæ of ten joints, on the last of which are, amongst others, three long knobbed hairs.
The heavy wooden bolts began to roll in the house doors, and old Martin prepared to move, by gathering up his blue handkerchief, and reaching his bright knobbed walnut-tree stick from the corner.
With this final sentence, Bartle Massey gave a sharper rap than ever with his knobbed stick, and the discomfited lads got up to go with a sulky look.
First the porter came forward with his cocked hat and his gilt knobbed stick, with the coloured cord twisted over it all the way down, and asked him whither he was going.
So saying, he gave him a stout root, as thick as a walking stick, with a knobbed end.
She becomes, in spite of her knobbed face, knotty arms, and great stature and strength, languidly sentimental in manner, the moment she enters my room.
The door is opened by a tall muscular woman, with a knobbed face and knotty arms besprinkled with a layer of grate-dust in a state of impalpable powder.
