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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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2022

There was a bare knoll on the top of the ridge.

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

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

At one point, more than 200 weather-beaten tents had sprouted along the sand and grassy knolls that run between the bike path and Ocean Front Walk, the concrete boardwalk.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

These "knolls, or hillocks,” the two men wrote, were "natural eminences of sand.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

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

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 James Fenimore Cooper

“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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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

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

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

From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett

"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

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

From Old Church Lore by William Andrews

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