Use knot in a sentence
Sentences ending with knot
- He had been sent for to tie the knot. [9]
- With a marvellous quickness she had tied the napkin beneath my chin, not so much as looking at the knot. [9]
- Having taken a kerchief from the cupboard, Willarski bound Pierre's eyes with it and tied it in a knot behind, catching some hairs painfully in the knot. [2]
- He was now in an adjutant's uniform with one epaulet and a shoulder knot. [2]
- He had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with a soldier's cross, equally shabby cadet's riding breeches lined with worn leather, and an officer's saber with a sword knot. [2]
More example sentences with the word knot in them
- Is the knot you tie safe against picking and stealing? [11]
- Forty year ago, you had only to let down the bucket till the first knot in the rope was free of the windlass, and you heard it splashing in the cold dull water. [12]
- Then his forehead would knot and furrow itself, and the drops of anguish stand thick upon it. [6]
- And, by a wise provision in the Constitution of our glorious American Union, no one state could tie the nuptial knot so tight that another state could not cut it at a blow. [9]
- The next morning, when the train for the East pulled out of Illinoistown, Miss Jinny Carvel stood on the plat form tearfully waving good-by to a knot of friends. [9]
- At last I was aroused by the sudden cracking of a knot in the torch. [11]
- What was the use of all the pomp and circumstance and ceremony to tie the knot if it could be cut in the routine of a day's business? [9]
- Do you counsel us to fasten it anew, with a looser knot, which will hold as long as the whim of a vacillating weakling who has broken his promises to us and to Moses a score of times? [10]
- All took their turns regularly, and each one succeeded in untying only one knot each time. [5]
- It was easy to talk about these things; in fact, Jack talked a great deal about them in the clubs, and occasionally with a knot of men after dinner in a knowing, pessimistic sort of way. [4]
- In ten years' time, the water fell again, and a third knot was made. [12]
- I felt every thread and knot burning into my soul, and could not cast it off nor even defend myself. [10]
- And presently, as they splashed through the mud near the Arsenal, they met a knot of gentlemen in state uniforms on their way to the city. [9]
- I sped through the streets on the errand, spied a Creole company waiting in reserve, and near them, behind a warehouse, a knot of backwoodsmen, French, and Indians, lighted up by a smoking torch. [9]
- He willingly accepted the office of "champion at the tea-parties;" he was one of a knot of young fellows of literary tastes and convivial habits, who delighted to be known as "The Nine Worthies," or "Lads of Kilkenny. [4]
- The legs of the heavy animal were tied together with ropes, and Marx was obliged to take the ends of the knot between his teeth like a bridle, and drag the carcass to the castle. [10]
- We didn't cut the Gordian knot, but we managed to loosen it considerably. [9]
- Sophie tried to take off her sunbonnet with one hand, but the knot tightened, and it tipped back on her head, giving her a piquant air. [11]
- As he passed Susannah's garden hedge he saw a knot of people gathered together and pointing out furtively to the handsome residence beyond. [10]
- Her fingers still stitched, her head was bent and I could not see her face,--only the knot of her hair coiled with an art that struck me suddenly. [9]
- One day he sprang over a fence, took from the hands of coquettish Elise Malboir an axe, and split the knot which she in vain had tried to break. [11]
- Mr. Zeb Meader, pale but determined, was surrounded by a knot of Mercer neighbours, many of whom were witnesses. [9]
- A knot can often be untied by daylight which by lamplight seems inextricable, and perhaps on my sleepless couch the goddess may reveal to me the way I have promised to show you. [10]
- A little knot of people had collected to watch me, and out stepped a strapping fellow in the King's scarlet, from the Guard's Horse near by. [9]
- Stephen caught glimpses of Mr. Lincoln towering above the knots of country politicians who surrounded him, and every once in a while a knot would double up with laughter. [9]
- Bolkonski and Denisov moved to the gate, at which a knot of soldiers (a guard of honor) was standing, and they saw Kutuzov coming down the street mounted on a rather small sorrel horse. [2]
- A knot of midshipmen on the forecastle were discussing Landais's conduct, and cursing the concordat which prevented our commodore from bringing him up short. [9]
- A knot of men stood at the door of the Cafe Voisin gesticulating nervously. [11]
- It had tangled me all up in a knot every time I had looked at it in the daytime. [5]
- By little and little the water fell away, so that in ten year after that, a second knot was made, and you must unwind so much rope, or the bucket swung tight and empty at the end. [12]
- They went a little apart from the knot of people who had congregated about the coach, and fell upon each other's neck, and sobbed, and wept with joy. [12]
- On her breast lay a knot of white roses--white roses in this winter desert. [11]
- He had forgotten it for the moment, but when, coming into Kaid's Palace, a little knot of loiterers spat upon the ground and snarled, "Infidel--Nazarene! [11]
- The hairs tied in the knot hurt Pierre and there were lines of pain on his face and a shamefaced smile. [2]
- Such a champion in appearance had never been seen in the West, and, the night before, he had proved his right to the title by shaking a knot of toughs into spots of disconcerted humanity. [11]
- They say as how Cap'n Jones be bound up in a hard knot by some articles of agreement, an' daresn't punish him. [9]
- The showman grated his teeth, and cursed the piano man to himself; but the fellow sat there like a knot on a log, and seemed to think he was doing first-rate. [5]
- She lifted up her hands and folded them behind the knot of her hair. [9]
- I could not help thinking that he looked benevolent enough to pardon Judas Iscariot just at that moment, though his features can knot themselves up pretty, formidably on occasion. [6]
- One day, as he sat in his doorway twisting and turning things in his mind, with an ugly knot in his temper, the barber came to him quickly. [11]
- In an instant he had whipped out a knife, cut a stick from one of the alders, knotted his handkerchief around the man's leg, ran the stick through the knot, and twisted the handkerchief until the blood ceased to flow. [9]
- And now that he had cut the knot he was too just to blame Alison Parr for having pointed out --with what often had seemed a pitiless cruelty--something of which he had had a constantly growing perception yet had continually sought to evade. [9]
- The kind old gentleman met them in the yard: "Well," said he, "I wish I may die, Elfonzo, if you and Ambulinia haven't tied a knot with your tongue that you can't untie with your teeth. [5]
- Ye have been fruitful in counsel, ye have been long knitting a knot never tied, ye shall have comfort soon. [11]
- Across the street from the house was gathered a knot of curious people, and among these Stephen paused. [9]
- She was five feet seven, modelled in proportion, endowed by some Celtic ancestor with that dark chestnut hair which, because of its abundance, she wore braided and caught up in a heavy knot behind her head. [9]
- It commenced by eating one dozen large blue-mass pills, box and all; then it fell down a flight of stairs, and arose with a blue and purple knot on its forehead, after which it proceeded in quest of further refreshment and amusement. [5]
- Your bow, the blue bow from Delft, the knot of ribbons the color of the sky, fluttered on my left shoulder as I dashed upon swords and lances. [10]
- At that moment Berg drew out his handkerchief as if to blow his nose and, seeing the knot in it, pondered, shaking his head sadly and significantly. [2]
- He bore no badge of mourning but a knot of purple ribbon on his shoulder. [5]
- He looked attentively at the carts in the yard and while going up to the porch took out a clean pocket handkerchief and tied a knot in it. [2]
- This unexpected and, as it seemed to Nicholas, quite voluntary letter from Sonya freed him from the knot that fettered him and from which there had seemed no escape. [2]
- The Modoc rips and tears around out doors, most of the time, and consequently is as hard as a pine knot and as brown as an Indian. [5]
- And these he advanced towards McCann before the knot was tied in the painter. [9]
- She was watching a little knot of horsemen coming over a swell of the prairie far off. [11]
- She showed me a bar of lead twisted up into a knot, and said she was a good shot with it generly, but she'd wrenched her arm a day or two ago, and didn't know whether she could throw true now. [5]
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