Her eyes were fixed dreamily on a big knothole before her, and the thoughts seemed to come out of it and stand before her, demanding imperiously to be thought.
What Thoughts came out of the knothole to Rebecca Mary she never told to any one.
She could sit quietly on the floor opposite the knothole and wait for the Thoughts.
And then with a little muffled cry Rebecca Mary put out her hands and pushed the woman-girl away--back into the knothole whence she had come.
If there had been a knothole anywhere, she thought to herself, the Thought of Growing Up would have come out of it and confronted her and reminded her of her legs.
That's your mother hollerin' Georgie," said one of the two, placing his eye to a knothole and glancing through to the stoop.
Even the boy at the knothole could hardly repress a smile.
Thus enlightened and reassured, the guard covered the knothole again.
He gave that up, also, and, seeing a knothole in one of the boards in the landward side of his jail, knelt and applied his eye to the aperture.
If Seth had arrived he could shout through that knothole and possibly be heard.
Listlessly Mellie caught up a handful of pebbles and shied them one by one at a knothole in the woodshed wall.
He did not know how many pebbles he'd flicked from the upended pickle keg through the knothole and into the woodshed, but offhand he guessed there were at least four bushels, and he didn't even want to think about another one.
Now it seemed that every pebble he tossed sailed through the knothole as naturally as a trout swims up riffles.
Tossing pebbles at the knothole was the only game he'd invented to beguile the passing hours, and at first it had been interesting because he made a bull's-eye only about one time in twenty.
Moreover, there was a knothole in the high wooden fence that inclosed the lower portion of the yard.
I managed to get close up to that same partition, and sure enough there was a little blot of light coming through the knothole Charley said was there.
Yes, I know all about that little knotholein the board partition.
Many floods, stampedes and blizzards had assailed his nerves, but he yet could pour a glass of liquor, held at arm's length, through a knothole in the floor without wetting the wood.
He looked out cautiously and saw a cloud of smoke over a knothole which was situated close up under the eaves of the barroom; and it was being agitated.
A knothole which led to the decayed interior was enlarged, the live wood being cut away as clean as a squirrel would have done it.
The fond male flew to a knothole in an old apple-tree, and coaxed her to his side.
You know there is a knothole in that partition over there, and if a fellow cared to he could look in and see what Mr. Goodwyn was doing; but I wouldn't want to be guilty of that low trick.
Anyhow, no matter, I confess that when I heard Mr. Goodwyn out in the tellers' department speaking with the customer, I just stepped on my tiptoes and put my eye to a little knothole in the partition.
The only way I could think of would be to hold an ear of corn before her nose and let her reach out her tongue for it, just as I had seen her try to lick grain through a knothole in the granary.
When I finally tracked them down I found that I would have to stand on my head to read them where they had been pasted upside down over a knothole in a shed.
I am going to see this game through a knothole in the fence I rented from a boy who has the knothole concession at the baseball park.
No nephew of mine is going to grow up and be a knothole audience.
On the way he stopped a moment at a fortuitous knothole in the board wall.
He leaned hipshot against the doorjamb, and spat accurately through a knothole in the bunkhouse floor.
Naturally, having already lost the knife down through the knothole I couldn't lose her again.
To cure warts: Cut your finger-nails and put them in the knothole of a tree; then stop up the hole, wishing the warts on to some one else.
When it has spread over a large feeding area it can then grow out through a wound or old knothole and form the bracket fruit body, in case the knothole or wound has not completely healed over so as to imprison the fungus mycelium.
In the latter case the mushroom usually grows from some knothole or wound in the tree (Fig.
The knothole was my own secret which I shared with no one.
I think I could have crawled through the knothole in our back porch, through which I put so many calomel tablets when I was a little kid.
Another thing she didn't know was that there was a knotholein the porch floor, under which, as years went by, a small mound of pink tablets grew into a large mound.
And Bully peeped in through a knothole in the fence, and he saw Sammie in the cage.
He looked through the knothole in the fence, and he saw Sammie and Bully in the cage.
One of the men tiptoed to a knothole and peered into the barn.
When the girl first removed her eyes from the knothole the scene appeared of one velvet blackness; then gradually objects loomed with a dim lustre.
A finger projected from a knothole near the top and said to her very plainly, "Come closer.
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