All the drawers run as smoothly as railroad cars; knobs are tight; locks in prime order, and veneers cling as tightly to their places as if they had grown there.
Door knobs are one of the very greatest avenues of contagion--disinfect them.
Flat dome shaped under the margin of a Norwegian ice cap with projecting rock knobs and moraines in foreground.
These tongues being much more active denuding agents, because of their steep gradients, continually lower their beds, thus transforming the earlier knobs of rock into high and steep mountains of more or less circular base.
Their wild hogs feed in the woods in prodigious herds, and have thick knobs growing over their eyes.
The tree is slender and straight, with circularknobs on the stem fourteen inches above each other, and having no leaves except at the top.
Footnote 6: The fork first represented in this figure is evidently broken, a series of knobs having originally formed the handle.
Next, because there is a greater variety in the knobs or balls of each cluster, then is of any small Fly.
His splotched brown and yellow hide was studded along the neck and shoulders with pointed knobs of horn.
B) four provisional pairs of appendages (shewn as small knobs at ab) appear behind the ambulatory feet.
The zona radiata attains a very great development, and is generally provided with knobs of various shapes on its outer surface.
Again, the two inner lenses of the condenser are moveable and are controlled by two knobs conveniently situated as shown in the illustration.
The two knobs with drum are mounted on an axle a, which in its central portion is enlarged and provided with a worm gear.
All that can be seen on the exterior are two small milled heads mounted below and somewhat back of the two larger knobs controlling the rack and pinion (coarse) adjustment of the microscope.
Chemical decay, especially when carried on beneath a cover of waste and vegetation, favors the production of rounded knobs and dome-shaped mountains.
A very singular lump of high level, or table land, lay at a few miles to the westward in the coast line; and at some distance beyond it, a point appeared with three knobs of land lying off it, resembling islands.
The iron railing looks like the gate of a cemetery, and there are brass knobs upon it.
The advancing daylight revealed to us a very long, comparatively even snow-slope, whose surface was pierced by many knobsand granite heads, giving it the aspect of a nice-roofing fastened on with bolts of stone.
Piercing thick beds of snow, sprang up knobs and straight isolated spires of rock, mere obelisks curiously carved by frost, their rigid slender forms casting a blue, sharp shadow upon the snow.
Cloths are laid in the cabins, and the steward is placing blue plates--full of knobs of cheese at equal distances down the centre of the tables.
As I anticipated, theknobs of cheese were provided for the passengers' supper, and are now in course of consumption.
They rode for several miles over this upland without seeing anything that was interesting, until, as they were approaching one of these tall knobs of rock, they heard a loud piercing whistle come from it.
After quite a long scramble up the steep mountain trail they came to a rolling, grassy plateau, interrupted here and there by clumps of pines, and occasionally by great knobs of red granite rock.
The Captain, pale as Florence, pale in the veryknobs upon his face raised her like a baby, and laid her on the same old sofa upon which she had slumbered long ago.
Of all this she thought as she swallowed the hostileknobs of cheese and drank the tepid, gritty coffee.
Every morning as she lay awake in the big double-bed with the brass knobs at the bed-foot winking at her in the early light she vowed that she would justify her acceptance of the man who lay sleeping so peacefully beside her.
The mist of anger dimmed the room, it was in the potatoes and the cold dry mutton, especially was it in the hard pallid knobs of cheese.
Bob Sawyer, stepping out into the shop, and demonstrating the veracity of the assertion by divers hard pulls at the little giltknobs on the counterfeit drawers.
If we mistake not we have heard her name mentioned in connection with the sale of the Tennessee Lands to the Knobs University, the bill for which passed the House last night.
If the Knobs University bill could only go through, what a change would be wrought in the condition of most of the persons in this history.
Emma from time to time cooled her cheeks with the palms of her hands, and cooled these again on the knobs of the huge fire-dogs.
Let us supply now, to effect the spontaneous discharge, the jar F with knobs of the same size and at the same distance apart as those of the jar L (Fig.
For a distance between the knobs of one centimetre on this machine the difference of potential is 110.
The knobsof the jar receive their portion of these quantities and when the quantity q is sufficiently great a rupture of the insulating air between the knobs, accompanied by the self-discharge of the jar, takes place.
The striking distance between the knobs of a machine increases with the difference of the potential, although not proportionately to that difference.
It was no place for this sort of game, as the sides of the ravine were ploughed with steep channels, broken with jutting knobs of rock, and impeded by short twisted pines that swung out from their roots horizontally over the pitch of the hill.
All beneath them was like a map: neither man nor beast distinguishable, but the veined and tinted image of a country, knobs and flats set out in order clearly, shining extensive and motionless in the sun.
The two knobs R and S have their capacity increased by the Leyden jars L and L'.
Are their crests even or broken by knobs and cols (the depressions on the crest line)?
The contest rose to high words, which were followed with blows, and those raised many knobs and bumps on his head.
The stones flew about so thick, that in a short space poor Don Toribio had as many knobs on his head as there are on a pine-apple.
His jaws clamped again, and the knuckles of his hands stood out in white knobs as they clenched in sudden passion on the wheel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knobs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
