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Highway 50, where the Caldor Fire had continued burning out of control toward Lake Tahoe, Safford parked his SUV and scrambled up a rocky knoll to point out a slope barren of trees.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 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

Wedged between two cream-colored apartment complexes on a knoll in South Pasadena is a time warp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

All round the knoll on which the Orcs were gathered little watch-fires sprang up, golden-red in the darkness, a complete ring of them.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Workers had painted large circles on the grassy knolls where spectators take in the action on big screens to delineate where each group of fans that arrived together should sit.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2021

It sent its stealthy, suckered tentacles inching along the insides of his skull, hoovering the knolls and dells of his memory, dislodging old sentences, whisking them off the tip of his tongue.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

From that dark day of blood, When Vengeance triumphed, and the curfew knolled, England, thy proud majestic policy Slowly arose!

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 by George Gilfillan

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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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

From Blix by Frank Norris

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

From The Setons by O. Douglas

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

From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett

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

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

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

The knolling of the heavy bell grows softer.

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