knoll
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During the afternoon, we sprawled out on a grassy knoll by the beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
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
Tatis received sustained applause when he was introduced before a panel discussion on a grassy knoll just beyond center field that also included star teammates Manny Machado, Juan Soto and the newly signed Xander Bogaerts.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2023
Our cabin stood on a high knoll about a hundred yards above the spring.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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Homeless people live in or around the park, many sleeping on the grassy knolls by the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025
He stood near the rushing river, the rolling hills covered in white oaks, the pristine creeks flowing gently beside grassy knolls dotted with wildflowers.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
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
Streams and knolls and rocky slopes were marked.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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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
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
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
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 The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
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 Robert Ornsby
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
“And his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell Remembered knolling a departing friend.”
From Old Church Lore by William Andrews
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