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knoll

[nohl] / noʊl /


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From home bakers to professionals, influencers to non-bakers, everyone places their cakes on the tables stretching across the grassy knoll, with Sydney's famed Harbour Bridge as the backdrop.

From BBC Mar. 28, 2026

Finally, a driver came to the rescue, jumping out of his car and racing onto the knoll, baiting the turkey to give chase.

From Seattle Times Oct. 29, 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

The prophets must have gathered wood earlier because a great heap was already present at the center of the bare knoll.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

After climbing a brisk 1500 feet in two miles, hikers emerge from evergreen forest to a ridgeline and a series of rolling knolls.

From Seattle Times Jun. 1, 2017

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

Mountain after mountain ranged in the distance, some with rounded or knolled heads, others rising to a peak.

From Fairy Tales from the German Forests by Margaret Arndt

In the direction of the Mexican quarter, the bell of the cathedral knolled at intervals.

From Blix by Frank Norris

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 James Parton

I, too, have been knolled to church, and sat at good men's feasts; but I bear no mark of it.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

The knolling of the heavy bell grows softer.

From David Lockwin—The People's Idol by John McGovern

Friend, a handsome house to lodge a, 139. --, knolling a departing, 62.

From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett

“And his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell Remembered knolling a departing friend.”

From Old Church Lore by William Andrews

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

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 John Bartlett




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