How To Use Knotted In A Sentence
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The masseuse said she'd never known anyone with such knotted shoulders.
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I quit talking as his hands began to knead my tired, knotted muscles and one by one, I felt them all begin to slacken.
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Some tutors attempt the _suaviter in modo_, my schoolmaster preferred the _fortiter in re_; and, as the boatswain said, by the "instigation" of a large knotted stick, he drove knowledge into our skulls as a caulker drives oakum into the seams of
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
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The bands - flat and wide or thin and round, with varying degrees of resistance - can be knotted and looped around furniture.
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Her fingers dug expertly into the knotted muscles of my shoulders, pummelled my back, massaged the tension out of my neck.
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We were also greeted by a large man in rumpled chef's whites and a rakish black beret, a handkerchief knotted jauntily around his neck.
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Some of our co-passengers would head for the spa where the expert masseuse, depending on whether he or she wanted a Swedish or aromatherapy massage, would knead their knotted muscles.
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He had on a navy blue suit that really suited him, with a plain red tie knotted round his neck.
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She had long, brown hair that was knotted and unwashed.
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As he wove in and out of the knotted trunks Nick heard the ping, ping around him with a moment's puzzlement.
THE WHITE DOVE
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With the score knotted at 17, Ryan opted to go for a fourth-and-two from the Oakland 37-yard line late in the third, but the call backfired when Sanchez missed Plaxico Burress on a slant route.
Sloppy Jets Stumble Against the Raiders
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Watchkeepers were shocked to find lifebelts knotted and thrown into the water, cables ripped out of scanners and damage to their roof when they arrived at their base yesterday morning.
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That ribbon of disquiet had knotted itself about her, tightening around her stomach which suddenly felt overfull of coffee and food.
COFFIN IN FASHION
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She wore a white duck skirt, a soft nainsook blouse open at the throat, the sailor collar knotted with a red silk scarf.
Peggy Stewart at School
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His forehead knotted in a frown.
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A rough rope was knotted about her slender neck.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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She knotted her fingers
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Every muscle was defined, from his corded neck to his knotted calves.
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Another range of more finely knotted items are made in Persian designs.
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Detangle her knotted hair and apply her strawberry-scented lip balm.
Times, Sunday Times
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In lieu of buckles at his knees, he wore unequal loops of packthread; and in his grimy hands he held a knotted stick, the knob of which was carved into a rough likeness of his own vile face.
Barnaby Rudge
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The Frenchman was wearing a knotted white handkerchief on his head to protect him from the sun.
Times, Sunday Times
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She wears a sleeveless patterned overall over her clothes at all times, which I think Vitriolica would refer to as a bata; a headscarf is knotted around her wispy grey hair.
Swallow
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The basic designs of the bags are simple and seemingly artless - a clutch is a rectangle and a pink velvet holdall the simplest container with the handles made of knotted lengths of fabric.
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His tie was knotted below his open collar.
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Her large grin and knotted black curls were, strangely enough, more memorable.
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As he glanced from picture to picture his eyebrow knotted in brooding thought, his head shaking gently from side to side.
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a mass of knotted string
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The reason for not using knotted tapered leaders when fishing with very small flies is you will often get fish hitting the knots in mistake for a tiny insect.
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The old dread knotted her stomach.
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The original pine floors and knotted wood panelling both have a rich patina of time, and we love the steep staircase and the cobbled courtyard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Doctors treated her hypertension with magnesium sulfate, while a medicine woman said prayers for her using a traditional sash that's knotted and unknotted during labor.
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When we return, will a tale unfold whose lightest word will harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make they two eyes like stars start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part and each particular hair to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
Seven soliloquies
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The carpets on display range from the Dhurri / Kelim type to very fine hand knotted ones with more than 36,000 knots per square foot.
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The remaining hair was knotted into a small chic chignon.
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Her hair was a mess - tangled, knotted, and all over the place, instead of gleaming, soft and in place.
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Smiling and bashful she stood there in her clinging skirt and wampum-broidered vest, her slender, rounded limbs moulded into soft knee-moccasins of fawn-skin, and the Virgin's Girdle knotted across her thighs in silver-tasselled seawan.
The Hidden Children
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Wandering into a copse by the road – side — but not in that place; two or three miles off — he tore out from a fence a thick, hard, knotted stake; and, sitting down beneath a hayrick, spent some time in shaping it, in peeling off the bark, and fashioning its jagged head with his knife.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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He watched her arms rise and fall as the hoe struck the knotted soil.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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He stood in front of me smiling broadly, skin oiled and supple, his hair tangled in a mass of knotted dreadlocks.
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Do you remember their hair bands - knotted scarves pushing back unashamedly frizzy hair?
Times, Sunday Times
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She wore cut-offs and a man's denim shirt knotted below her breasts.
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In a sartorial choice that has baffled and dismayed people ever since, upper-class Parisians adopted the mercenaries 'knotted scarf, which they called a "cravat" - a mispronunciation of the word "Croat" probably caused by a restricted larynx.
Pipes Output
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His shoulders and chest were huge and knotted, uncorrupted by tattoos.
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They were a picturesque crew with their broad felt hats, their flannel shirts of various colors, overlaid with an enamel of dust and perspiration, baked by the Dakota sun, their bright silk handkerchiefs knotted round the neck, their woolly "shaps," their great silver spurs, their loosely hanging cartridge-belts, their ominous revolvers.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
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While you recline, this amazing chair does wonderful things to your body and you start feeling all that stiffness disappearing as knotted muscles begin relaxing.
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Therese unknotted the string and pulled off the brown paper, revealing a simple book, with a cover of blue fabric.
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He knotted the cord of his dressing-gown and left the room.
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his carefully knotted necktie
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He picked his way carefully through the ferns and knotted roots, focused eyes always straight ahead.
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The knotted serpent and the stag trippant in are derived from the crests respectively of the Duke of Devonshire and the Duke of Buccleuch, who are the principal landowners - the latter also being Lord of the Manor of Plain Furness.
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Slowly, her muscles unknotted, and her the anxiety in her face seemed to scatter.
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Her white sneakers were annoyingly neat and the laces were knotted tightly and securely.
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Hands traveled down my back, massaging my knotted muscles.
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The sinews on his neck stood out like knotted string.
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Tanks were protected with white cloths knotted on strings at intervals.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
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Fear and anxiety knotted her stomach.
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Usage:operations of gynecology, urology, stomach and intestine peritoneum and so on. The gut suture, made from qualified intestines-skin, is smooth, high tensility , and can be easily knotted.
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He had sudden visions of the giant kender incarcerated in the Haven jail, with most of his torso and his topknotted head and shoulders sticking up through the hole they would have to cut in the roof.
The Soulforge
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Phillis without a frown or smile Sat and knotted, and knotted and knotted and knotted all the while.
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She knotted the parcel firmly.
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One might suggest that the positive trefoils formed after the first strand-passing reaction will be unknotted in the second round of the process.
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The sutures were knotted around a bar as described.
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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
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After about 10 minutes, I felt muscles knotted from a 12-week training schedule start to loosen up.
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I thought about calling Matt to see if he'd heard anything about this, then changed my mind when my stomach knotted up at the thought.
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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve.
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The drawing of a woman with big eyes, dark lashes and tightly knotted hair, dressed in a ruffled frock and sporting a fan, gave it away.
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The lad bowed his thanks and knotted the sash around his body in the usual fashion.
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Married women wear coarse chemises and aprons of homespun linen; and their braided hair coiled on top of the head imparts a coronet shape to the gay cotton kerchief which is folded across the brow and knotted at the nape of the neck.
Russian Rambles
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The rest of her clothing - a shirt, jeans and underwear - was knotted around her neck.
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If you throw in clothes from the washer knotted together in an impenetrable mass, they are likely to take forever to dry, or some will overdry while others remain damp because air cannot circulate around them.
HOME COMFORTS
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The man was about thirty and unshaven, his unkempt, blonde hair knotted like some Rastafarian.
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Tanks were protected with white cloths knotted on strings at intervals.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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Space itself was knotted up, its convolutions pliable enough to be pressed through but only with the greatest difficulty.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Her long blond hair, knotted with traces of blood, trailed behind her.
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Standing on the bridge of Iron Duke, a small figure in a belted blue raincoat with a white scarf knotted at his neck, Jellicoe stared intently at the hazy line of sea and sky to the south.
Castles of Steel
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Ivy stood in the doorway, her hair knotted with sleep, her nightshirt falling off one shoulder.
Ominous
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She went to the bathroom to run a hot bath to help release what she thought was knotted muscles.
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The path plunged downhill at a near-sheer angle, with few hand or footholds, but a free-swinging knotted rope to hang on to.
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Macramé is an Arabic word, signifying an ornamental fringe or trimming, which has been adopted as the term for a certain kind of hand-work, known also as «knotted fringe» or «Mexican lace» and produced by the knotting, interweaving and tying together of threads.
Encyclopedia of Needlework
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She knotted her jacket's sleeves around her waist and from a pocket she unfurled a roll of balloons.
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They were coated with ice; the thick German socks were like sheaths of iron half-way to the knees; and the mocassin strings were like rods of steel all twisted and knotted as by some conflagration.
To Build A Fire
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His hair, mingled black and blond, fell in Italianate profusion, knotted ringlets to his shoulders.
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The muscles writhed and swelled over his back and shoulders, leapt up in knotted strands like leathery hawsers from his shoulders down to his raw and bleeding wrists; a convulsion of superhuman power swept over his torso like the shock of an earthquake.
Archive 2007-11-01
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He always wore a strange mixture of civilized and savage clothes – fringed buckskin "chaps," beaded moccasins, a blue flannel shirt, a scarlet silk handkerchief knotted around his throat, a wide-brimmed cowboy hat with a rattlesnake skin as a
The Shagganappi
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One painting I saw in a show at the Honolulu Academy of Arts - Modern Times, by Chris Campbell - shows a young Hawaiian woman dressed in a red pareo, her black hair knotted atop her head to reveal a tattoo on one shoulder.
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But anyway, the front seats know five ways to massage your knotted back muscles.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was an awe-inspiring sight, his beard jutting out fiercely and his brow knotted in anger.
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He wore a long woollen garment stained by the sea, knotted at the waist with a piece of rope.
A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
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My hair was knotted in a tangled mess, giving me a wild look.
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Right!" replied Dale; and a minute later he caught the rings of hemp thrown to him, and rapidly knotted the middle round Saxe, the end to his own waist; and as he knotted, _click, click! chip, chip_! went the ice-axe, deftly wielded by the guide, who with two or three blows broke through enough of the crust to make a secure footing while the ice flew splintering down the slope in miniature avalanches, with a peculiar metallic tinkling sound.
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
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I have a piece of purple webbing knotted in a loop that I untie and wrap around my forearm.
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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
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There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
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She grabbed the hairbrush out of his hand and began raking it through her knotted red hair.
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Off to work every morning, clean shaven, youthful necks in knotted ties, days spent in unknown labors, home again at suppertime to take a critical glance at the evening meal and to shake out the newspaper, hold it up between themselves and the muddle of the kitchen, the ailments and emotions, the babies.
A Quiet Genius
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Perseverance '-- for that was her name -- was spoken somewhere in the vicinity of the ends of the earth, cruising along as leisurely as ever, her sails all bepatched and be quilted with rope-yarns, her spars fished with old pipe staves, and her rigging knotted and spliced in every possible direction.
Typee
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His eyes stayed hooded, dark with ancient malice, and the sigils tattooed on pale cheeks itemed grotesque as knotted spiders.
Shadowfane
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Now my stomach knotted as I wondered what I'd gotten myself into.
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Yawning, she walked over to the oak dressing table and ran her brush through her knotted red hair.
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It's a difficult piece, with knotted complexities, contradictory tonalities and a wild disposition.
Times, Sunday Times
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She took deep breaths, quickly running her fingers through her knotted hair.
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Around this time of year it's the ‘I'd better do something or I'll never get into one of those sparkly knotted hankies that designers laughingly call party dresses’.
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I had an immensely complicated pattern to imitate them, carved out of spun marabou with knotted black eyeballs of ostrich herl.
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He detached himself from their imploring jewelled and knotted fingers, and bowed.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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He was close enough now to see the knotted ridges on the horse's withers, the marks of abuse.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve.
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The Galaxy, who had lost their five previous matches, knotted the game early in the second half.
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Beard, beret, curly hair and bandana knotted round his throat, he was the epitome of a certain type of radical chic, and his image is to be found on the walls of student rooms even today.
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We had had avenues of trees, knotted here and there into groves; we had passed pretty farmhouses with bright milk-cans and pans hanging on the red walls, like placks in a drawing-room; we had seen gardens flooded with roses, and long stretches of water carpeted with lilies white and yellow; then we had come to pine forests and heather, and always we had had the good klinker which, though not as velvety for motoring as asphalt, is free from dust even in dry weather.
The Chauffeur and the Chaperon
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As I knotted my choice into a square of seal-foam, Valcyr came walking, with that particular sure-footed daintiness of her species, along the bank of the small runlet.
The Zero Stone
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Her old parents could help but little, for the "rheumatiz," which attacks age in the mountains, had cramped and knotted their limbs, and they were fit for nothing except in fine dry weather.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
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The drawing of a woman with big eyes, dark lashes and tightly knotted hair, dressed in a ruffled frock and sporting a fan, gave it away.
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Ecclesiastical vestments were often trimmed with heavy gold fringe, knotted "fretty wise," and the embroideries were further enriched with jewels and small plaques of enamel.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
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The subject firmly grips a ransacked, unfashioned garment secured by a simple-knotted line of inter-woven string.
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Her normally sleek auburn hair was frizzy and knotted and her clothes were wrinkled from a night of restless sleep.
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She unknotted the sweater that was tied around her waist, and put it on to hide her arms.
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To let the sailors go ashore with us, we drew up the boat on the rock several feet, and made it fast with a line knotted into a crevice between two fragments of flinty sienite rock at the foot of the crags.
Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.'
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A flash of lightning illuminated a small clearing ahead, and she saw a bough sprawled across the fecund ground like a knotted snake.
MINUTES TO BURN
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In trigger-point injections, you may feel a sharp pain or muscle twitching when the needle hits the knotted muscle.
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Henrik Sedin knotted it when he put a shot from in front off
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The "quipu," a knotted reckoning-cord, was in use in Peru and in China.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world
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Aidan knew right away the man was homeless: he wore a rumpled, torn black suit that looked like he snatched it from a dumpster, and a frayed tie loosely knotted around his neck.
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This work, marked by palmettes and knotted vines forming a cross, was paired with a sculpture of the Virgin and Child from the Banjska Monastery.
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Here is the place to try a hot stone massage, where warm basalt stones from the desert's dry river beds are used in a deep massage to ease any knotted muscles.
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His forehead knotted in a frown.
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She gently kneaded his knotted muscles as she spoke to their son.
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Tasslehoff sang out, skipping around the dazed innkeeper like a topknotted fiend.
Dragons Of Summer Flame
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There was “The Sacred Schmata (rag),” a shlocky pink strip of nylon, roped and knotted together, with which we enwrapped ourselves and one another to proclaim that we were community.
E.M. Broner: Statement
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Public opinion has knotted the lash, heated the branding-iron, loaded the rifle, and shielded the murderer.
American Notes for General Circulation
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But the red splodges of painted waymarks led unerringly down the rock slides by slip and scramble, by iron ladders and - at one point - a knotted rope.
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It would make a big difference if people would just followed simple steps such as putting all rubbish in a black bin bag, which should be knotted to prevent any overspill.
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Somehow the threads of life had knotted themselves up; he had slipped so lightly into his place here, he had taken up responsibilities as he might have taken up a flower; he had meant to be what he called frank and affectionate all round, and now he felt that he was going to disappoint everyone.
Watersprings
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It's his beef," Mr. Burke says, adjusting his immaculately knotted silk tie.
In 'Chap-Hop,' Gentlemen Rappers Bust Rhymes About Tea, Cricket
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My hair was knotted and difficult to put a brush through.
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Their limbs were like those of a true giant - long , knotted and strong.
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His tie was knotted below his open collar.
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Because knotted light beams have both beamlike properties and unique unexplored properties, the physicists (Irvine and Bouwmeester) predict that creating the beams could have applications in several areas.
Next Big Future
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All about them the huge-rooted trees blocked their footing, while coiled and knotted climbers, of the girth of a man's arm, were thrown from lofty branch to lofty branch, or hung in tangled masses like so many monstrous snakes.
Chapter 25
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His tie was knotted below his open collar.
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It all looked like a knotted warren of cobbled streets to me.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wished to refuse, to say that there was not a moment to be lost, that he could eat nothing in any case; his wame was knotted, hurting him.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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Stretching out her sore and knotted muscles, she slowly rose from her blanket.
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It conjures up images of Blackpool and knotted handkerchiefs.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the men still have their shirts buttoned up tight to the collar, their ties knotted, their hair slicked back.
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The researchers have also recovered fragments of knotted "cordage" - woven seagrass - that might have been used to make fishing nets.
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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No matter how successful you are or how fulfilled you feel, there are nights where you toss and turn because your stomach is knotted with thoughts of failure.
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Amitabha: Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve .
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Where on the exterior each of these coupled walls meets the next couple in a mute adjacency, internally their contradictions are played out to form intimate and knotted spaces of high tension.
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Remove and burn plants with knotted roots or unthrifty plants with extensive root decay.
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He wanted something along the lines of "Thy knotted and combined locks to part, and each particular quill to stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine" but didn't think he could carry it off and didn't like the hedgehog reference.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
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Reaching down very temperishly to the pocket he drew forth a small lace-trimmed handkerchief knotted pudgily across
Molly Make-Believe
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The pool, jacuzzi, steamroom and sauna are a necessary part of the weekend rejuvenation process and if a massage therapist is on hand to squeeze out the knotted muscles, all the better.
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A knotweed is so called because its roots are knotted or twisted; bistort means twice twisted.
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Saprykin knotted the contest 6 1/2 minutes later with a strong individual effort.
NHL - National Hockey League - Calgary vs. Anaheim
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She shook her head, her black knotted hair flying around her face.
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She wore a scarf loosely knotted around her neck.
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Working purely by feel, he folded his handkerchief cornerwise, adjusted the straight edge to a point just below his eyes and knotted the handkerchief behind the back of his head.
The Way to Dusty Death
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He nodded and knotted his scarf tighter and stuffed his hands in his pockets.
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The last time I saw him a little gray had come into his sideburns but he still looked handsome in his dark suits and expertly knotted ties.
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Take care around the traditional bonfires as even a stray spark shooting from damp or knotted wood can ignite materials in multicoloured costumes.
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Can I just say, that if I get one more email from Intermix about how I have to have a $1200 "greige" Nicholas Kirkwood sweater that looks like a moth exploded and then had an affair with a shag rug who molested a knotted sheep, I'm going to scream.
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Fall Fahhshun and What It Means for Your Dating Life.
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Fear and anxiety knotted her stomach.
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More expensive items in the same range should be finely knotted and possess cleanly articulated and symmetrically arranged decorative forms.
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Breathing in sharply, she held her breath as she wrapped the fabric around her chest and knotted it.
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It seems logical that the incredible headdresses, the folded, puffed and knotted clothes, are all designed to make the wearer look bigger, taller and more impressive.
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Salammbo unfastened her earrings, her necklace, her bracelets, and her long white simar; she unknotted the band in her hair, shaking the latter for a few minutes softly over her shoulders to cool herself by thus scattering it.
Salammbo
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Her long fair hair was knotted and straggly.
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Wallin knotted the score at 3-3 for Houston 3: 17 into the third.
USATODAY.com
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Giasone's dissipation was signaled by his unknotted tuxedo tie; the Argo was a modern speedboat; Isifile had a pink minidress with a Jackie Kennedy pillbox hat; the Golden Fleece was a big, shaggy coat; and Delfa's outfit was channeling Dame Edna.
On a Tattered Shoestring
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In medieval prisons, inmates were punished with a device called a "cat-o'-nine-tails" -- a whip made of nine knotted thongs of cord designed to lacerate the skin and cause intense pain.
How Does Ringling Bros. Make Elephants Do That?
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He stood staring into the night, hand on his sword hilt, stomach knotted and mind racing.
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Soothe your knotted muscles by applying a heating pad to the back of your neck or shoulders for from ten minutes to an hour.
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She smoothed her palms over her head, then unknotted her dress and rolled her shoulders back, letting the clothes slide to her ankles.
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You know which guy I'm talking about - he's the one who looks polished from head to toe, with his designer shoes, stylish tailored suit, and perfectly centered, knotted tie.
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‘You were jumping so beautifully, and Minty looked so wonderful,’ she whispered, her fingers knotted in the sheets as she leaned close, speaking of his show-jumper, the gorgeous dun, ‘The triple.’
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Mid-length to long hair is twisted and knotted into a mass of lively little ringlets, then twisted and fixed with grips.
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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
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After a long time, an hour or more, two other nurses marched in abreast like soldiers, with a great clumping of sabots, and knotted the corpse up in the sheets, but it was not removed till some time later.
How the Poor Die
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Today it's possible to buy wire which can be knotted, or crimped.
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The film's weakness lies in its storyline, which is knotted with subplots.
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She was wearing cut-off Levi's and a pink Qiana blouse knotted at the waist.
MORE TALES OF THE CITY
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A knotweed is so called because its roots are knotted or twisted.
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The sinews on his neck stood out like knotted string.
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Michael Chin knotted the score at 2-2 with 3: 32 left in the second for Dayton, which is winless in its last five (0-4-1).
USATODAY.com
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Her stomach knotted together, her heart jammed in her throat.
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He clutched the knotted mass that was his stomach and reached inside his desk drawer for a bottle of the pink stuff.
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He finished off the last stitch, knotted it and cut the thread with her nail scissors.
CORMORANT
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Severe flogging with the bamboo, rattan, cudgel, and knotted whip successively, is one of the most usual means of extorting confession; and when death results from the process, the magistrate reports that the criminal has died of sickness, and in the few cases in which there may be reason to dread investigation, the administration of a bribe to the deceased man's friends insures silence.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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She twisted her hands, trying to figure out how they had knotted the ropes.
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They were men who did public penance and scourged themselves with whips of hard knotted leather with little iron spikes.
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A silver lattice silk tie expertly knotted at his throat, and midnight blue snakeskin shoes completed the ensemble.
Who Said It Would Be Easy
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Now he was a greying elder, spectacled in thick bifocals, wrinkled in his once handsome features, and knotted and veined in limbs.
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My partner and I went for the Swedish massage which not only sorted out a few knotted muscles but also left us both sound asleep.
The Sun
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Faster than you can say Marilyn Monroe, various historians who'd read an early version of the script began to react with varying degrees of knicker-knottedness.
Half of U.S. can see controversial Kennedy miniseries
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Are you trying to solve a particular question like whether this piece of string which is put together in a particular way can be unknotted?
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During the actual weaving, tufts of fleece were sometimes knotted into the weave to anchor them, creating a fabric with a hairy or shaggy finish.