In the neighbourhood of the salt marshes in the eastern counties, one may meet, in severe winter weather, just before dusk, little knots of men setting out on ducking expeditions.
Richardson states that 'Knots were observed breeding on Melville Peninsula by Captain Lyon, who tells us that they lay four eggs on a tuft of withered grass, without being at the pains of forming any nest.
She is dressed in a very pale pink gown, with knots of black velvet here and there.
Under the notion that the symbolical acts of the sorcerers would have their effect upon the one to be bewitched, the male sorcerer or the witch, as the case might be, would tie knots in a rope.
Following are the designations given to different knots by lumbermen: A sound knot is one which is solid across its face and is as hard as the wood surrounding it and fixed in position.
A large trunk perfectly clean of branches on the outside may have many knots around its center, remnants of branches which grew there in its youth, as in Fig.
Knots are the remnants of branches left in the trunk.
The term burl is also used to designate knots and knobs on tree trunks, Fig.
Section of Douglas Fir, Showing Annual Rings andKnots at Center of Trunk.
Across his chest and back the muscles stood out like knots on a gnarled oak.
The animal had escaped the suction of the propellers, but the fall from a vessel pelting along at 20 knots had evidently stunned it.
Some were strolling about in knots smoking and talking, some were gambling, others were going on their business.
He was naked, and it was a wonderful sight to see the muscles starting out in knots on his huge but dwarfish frame as he strained at the weight of the bridge.
I do not love a medicine that causes men to tie themselves into knotsand then turns them green.
He lay motionless awhile, husbanding his force, and the Portugee surged and heaved beneath him; he could feel the muscles of his mighty frame start up inknots as he struggled.
He looked at the company of priests; their heart was out of them, they were huddled together like knots of frightened sheep, staring at the corpses of their two companions.
As the fermentation increased, the streets were crowded with idle workmen; people collected in knots from curiosity, or stood at their doors.
On the morning of November 15th, when the Legislature was to commence its session, though knots of persons were seen talking in the streets with excited countenances, there was no outbreak or popular tumult.
There seemed to be more wrangling going on there--knots of people disputing and apparently quite oblivious of the audience.
Palla, perplexed, incredulous, yet almost instantly suspecting the truth, stared at the rusty ranks, at the knots of red ribbon on every breast.
The gravity, the slow sententiousness, and purposed wisdom of the utterances of more than one or two knots of habitual companions whom I can recall, were outside the chances of exaggeration.
He rose suddenly; the George hanging to the collar of knots and roses heaved and glittered with his angry breathing.
These little knots of peasants readily enough posed for the camera, and were contented with a penny apiece for drink-money.
Ah, how he knots his lash to see That ancient cloak, Hypocrisy!
In order to untie the knots Gabriel read to him the two last chapters of the Koran, consisting of eleven verses; each verse untied a knot, and, when all were untied, he recovered.
The knots which prevent it render it on the other hand possible for nets to be cut or torn asunder, without destroying more meshes than those immediately exposed to the force applied.
One of the principal difficulties is to cast the metal without blisters or air-holes, and without causing any part of the tin to oxidize, which occasions knots and cracks, and prevents it from receiving a fine polish.
I see tables and pieces of wood valued at the price of a senator's estate, which are all the more precious, the more knots the tree has been twisted into by disease.
What is the use of laboriously untying knots which you yourself have tied, in order that you might untie them?
Both shells flew high and roared through the masts of the warship, who increased her speed to seven knots and stood on her course followed by her consorts.
It is not his fault that this is not intelligence, that it knots the brow in sorer doubt rather than shapes the lips to utterance of the things that can never be said.
On one occasion, during a westerly gale, it set to the eastward with a velocity of at least three knots per hour.
It was very much furrowed, and, from its great depth, drifted but little, while the lesser fragments of ice were driven past it at the rate of about two knots an hour.
If you'd ever learn to be a contortionist and tie yourself into three knots close together, you'd do better.
Get Apple to teach you the knots and the scout law, and I'll teach you the rest.
