No line of beauty redeemed his lean limbs and knobby joints.
A man--though more like a naked, starving ape with his knobby joints and the bones in a rack under his black skin--and shaken now by the ecstasy of terror!
Nearly as big as a hen's egg, clean, hard opal of prismatic fires in sparkling jet, they agreed that it as the biggest and finest knobby either of them had ever seen.
Paul was holding up a good-looking knobby so that red, green, and gold lights glittered through its shining potch as he moved it.
When Potch had worked it out of its socket, the knobby was found to be even bigger than they had thought at first.
He could not understand why Potch was not fired by the beauty of the thing he had won, or with pride at having found the biggest knobby ever taken out of the fields.
Potch moved his candle before the chipped corner of the stones which he had worked round sufficiently to show that a knobby of some size was embedded in the wall of the mine.
There was a piece of opal for almost every man on the fields, and she had strung them together, with a beautiful knobby Potch had made her a present of for her eighteenth birthday, a few days before, in the centre.
Why toil up this mountain when one can rest in luxury on these knobby rocks?
EN#24] Here the track debouched upon an inverted arch, with a hill, or rather a tall and knobby outcrop of rock, on either flank of the keystone.
The plain, I have said, is everywhere broken by piles of stone forming knobby hills.
This time the unknown ducked his knobby head at the attacker.
With those legs and his elongated neck and round, knobby head, Mr. Luce closely resembled one of a set of antique andirons.
There were little dabs of purple on his knobby cheek-bones.
Then Cap'n Kidd darted forward that knobby head with its ugly beak, and tore off Peter's caput with one mighty wrench.
Instead of being lined with bright young men in knobby business suits and white stiff collars, the office is lined with far brighter young men in much more businesslike khaki.
There are many books on shelves, and on the floor, an overflowing pile, whereon rests a soft hat, and a black knobby stick.
Certainly something long and knobby and black was almost at the bow.
At the outskirts of the scrub, the short-tailed sleeping lizard withknobby scales was frequent: one of them contained six eggs.
A sleeping lizard with a blunt tail andknobby scales, fell into our hands, and was of course roasted and greedily eaten.
Then, use knife blade to gently scrape meat down toward the larger, knobby end of bone, turning meat inside out.
Remove theknobby knuckle from the end of a drumstick by giving it a good hard whack with your heaviest knife.
Utah=] The curious knobby rootstock, shaped like a bit of coral, gives the name to this strange and rather unwholesome looking plant.
For what seems to be a greenish-brown, knobby log of wood floating on the water, has little bright eyes which are on the lookout for anything which moves.
And ever since that time the Hen has eaten her dinner in tranquil peace, undisturbed by the sight of floating log or basking shape of knobby green.
The women, loaded with children and baskets, sit in the shade of the knobby trees which stretch their trunk-like branches horizontally over the beach, forming a natural roof against sun and rain.
Knobby roots rise out of the ground; they have caught floating trunks, across which the water pours, lifting and dropping the wet grasses that grow on the rotten stems.
I'll let go at your nose," said the hostler, clenching his knobby fist.
Wolf shook his knobby fist laughingly at the poet, who made no further effort to use any other weapon of offence but his tongue.
The Davids were coming out in groups, clutching their teddy bears, their thin knobby legs pumping as they ran up the steps to the surface.
David squatted by the edge of the fire, his knees knobby and white.
The rest of his ruddy, knobby countenance, his erratic hair and his general hairy leanness had not even--to my perceptions grown.
The informers continued in a knobby kind of obstinacy.
Then, distorting his pockets with theknobby bundles, and giving her the flowers to hold, he put up the old umbrella, and they travelled on again.
Undo the bundle and see, Meg," said Beth, eying the knobby parcel with curiosity.
Entering the little shop of an evening, she would plant herself before the counter, sigh heavily, and produce from the knobby catch-all a tract.
This lady carried a netted catch-all distended with many knobbyparcels and a bundle of tracts.
I want to see this man Finch,' ses 'Arry, shaking 'is knobby stick.
As the sleeves drooped down from the upflung arms I saw the left plainly, but the right ended in a knobby and unsightly stump.
All his limbs were huge and yet emaciated, and I could not take my gaze from his knobby wrists, and long, gnarled hands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knobby" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
