One meets now and then with Persons who are extreamly learned and knotty in Expounding clear Cases.
We stirred up the hard leather letter-sacks, and the knotty canvas bags of printed matter (knotty and uneven because of projecting ends and corners of magazines, boxes and books).
Luther left the knotty skein of politics to his princely friends to unravel, but Zwingli, on the contrary, shrank from no political difficulties, encumbrances, or complications.
If they do not want to grapple at once such a knotty subject as the relation of the Mound Builders to the existing tribes, let them explore Spain for relics of the Aztecs.
A problem in triangulation or knotty question in physics would have charmed him and braced him up for any work.
But Obed's thoughts were all absorbed by the knottyquestion which had been raised by the appearance of Black Bill with his story.
It was so knotty a problem that it engaged all their thoughts and discussions while they were waiting for dinner, and while they were eating their dinner.
Frederick was lying in the grass in his accustomed position, whittling a willow stick, the knotty end of which he was trying to form roughly into the shape of an animal.
The language was not only peculiar and strong, but at timesknotty and contorted, as by its own impatient strength.
And in the interval he fortunately discovered his error, and instead of taking up the imposition with his clean hands, he delighted the master with a knotty inquiry as to one of the active tenses of the Latin verb "To be.
After this knotty point was disposed of the talk grew more general, and Wally became aware that his brother was handing him the apricot jam.
Sven Hedin, claims to have settled this knotty point.
Before the church I found yet standing a knotty little elder tree, a bewitched-looking vegetable.
Haldane was silent, feeling that the old man's spiritual condition was too knotty a problem for him to solve.
He had always meant to settle for himself that knotty question.
Girded with his leather apron, his sleeves rolled tightly over his knotty arms, the smith, John Proudfoot, stood waiting for his heat.
Mr. M'Kinlay, too, meditated as he drove homewards, but not with all that clearness of intellect he could usually bestow upon a knotty point.
It is too late in the night to open a knotty discussion.
For a long time he sat very quietly in his chair, apparently arguing out with himself some knotty point.
Blanche has got a knotty question for you to solve, Seton," said Mr. Clifford, turning to one of his guests.
In tough, unwedgeable, knotty strength, it is the oak of oaks, a magnificent tree.
The main knotty trunk seems to be made up of craggy granite boulders like those on which it stands, being about the same color as the mossy, lichened boulders and about as rough.
But ere it fell, two thundering blows Upon his scull descend: From Ursine's knotty club they came, Who ran to save his friend.
Second in charge came Allan Hollister, a Maine boy, who had had considerable actual experience in wood's life, and to whom the rest of the patrol naturally turned whenever a knotty problem faced them during an outing.
The disposal of the European lands occupied by the Turks has proved a very knotty international question.
In order to bring about the expulsion of Austria from the confederation, Bismarck took advantage of a knotty problem that had been troubling Germany, and which was known as the Schleswig-Holstein affair.
