knoll

She settled on a grassy knoll, sunned herself and took a nap.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

With treelike structures, a green knoll and overhead chimes incorporating colorful carved birds, the 3,500-square-foot space exposes young minds to art’s most fundamental ingredients: materials.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

The multicolored toilet had been left in a grassy knoll near an AMC Theatre at the mall, GPD Sgt.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2023

"I heard that - I don't even know what a knoll is," Norrie said.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2022

The clamorous street had turned private, a blue path such as should rightly lead to a hidden knoll, and so on.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Homeless people live in or around the park, many sleeping on the grassy knolls by the water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025

Iowa at the time, Mr. Hill said, would have been a “parkland,” with patches of trees mixed in with grassy knolls.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

Three zebras have been frocklicking through the lush, grassy knolls of Prince George’s County, Maryland, since the end of August.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2021

But there’s only so much whipping hair and water splashing, grassy knolls and dreamy overhead shots I can take.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2020

Streams and knolls and rocky slopes were marked.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Spreads in their 160-page book show some outfits knolled from hat to scarf to shoes to handbag, alongside sketches from the Mattel archives and drawings by the film’s costume designers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024

“If ever been where bells have knolled to church”; if you have ever been within sound of Bow bells; if you have ever been happy and haughty enough to call yourself a Cockney.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

The humble records of my life to search, I have not herded with mere pagan beasts: But sometimes I have "sat at good men's feasts," And I have been "where bells have knolled to church."

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

If ever you have looked on better things, If ever been where bells have knolled to church.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

If ever you have looked on better days, If ever been where bells have knolled to church; If ever sat at any good man's feast!

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore

Five years has a melancholy sound to me now, for it is like a passing-bell, knolling away time.

From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Ornsby, Robert

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remembered knolling a departed friend.

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John

"Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remembered knolling a departed friend."

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John

Seventy-three bells in chromatic diapason—with their tinkling, ringing, tolling, knolling peal!

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd knolling a departing friend.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various