| 单词 | knothole |
| 例句 | I could feel them peering at me through cracks and knotholes. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “NOTES: “I cut out several more knotholes to let air in and out of the tree room. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “You see all them knotholes in the floor and in the walls?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z That night dust and yellow sand blew through the knotholes in the walls and floor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The man pointed his walking stick at the board with the jungle and the six knotholes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Inside, the windows are boarded over with wood veneer, and an airless, pearly light seeps through the knotholes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Then she climbed the side of the crate and hid herself inside a knothole in the top board. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Tree-ear stole silently over the frozen ground, edged along the wall of the shed, and after a quick glance around, hunched over to put his eye to a shoulder-level knothole. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Bet he is there with his eye to the knothole. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z They stuffed this around the doorjamb and fixed it over the knotholes with thumbtacks borrowed from the Fujitas. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There were also six holes the size of supper plates cut into the board so’s it ’peared to be a big knothole in each one of the trees. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z We used to have another big sassafras tree, which stood next to this one and had a knothole where bluebirds nested. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Gramps said, “See that knothole? Watch what this here chickabiddy can do to a knothole.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I whittled out one of the old knotholes to let the smoke out, and built the chimney down from this. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not stop watching them while she spun, sidestepping knotholes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z When she put an eye to a knothole in the floor, she discovered two thick-bodied rattlesnakes, taking refuge from the fierce sun. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z An image floated out of the darkness into Tree-ear’s mind—that of himself with his eye pressed to the knothole of Kang’s shed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z They did not know that under the straw was a rat, and inside a knothole was a big grey spider. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “We can nail them over those knotholes in the floor—they’ll do a better job than tar paper.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She was standing beside a gnarly oak with knotholes that made it good for climbing—I’d climbed it myself many a day. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Charlotte crouched and made herself as small as possible in the knothole, so Avery wouldn’t see her. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Overhead, I hear the trilling of birds calling to one another as they roost for the night and see glowing lights kindle in hollow knotholes as sprites come awake. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Ayanna put Gum Baby down, and, with a promise to talk later, dashed to the rear and jammed her staff into a knothole. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z One of the workers peered through a knothole and shouted, “There’s a body in there!” Man seeks pals he once persuaded to ship him around the world in a crate 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z In “Mockingbird,” Boo leaves little gifts for Scout and her brother, Jem, in the knothole of a similar live oak. My Harper Lee pilgrimage: Visiting Monroeville, in search of “Mockingbird’s” essence 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z And if a knothole or gate offers a glance, I imagine the space to be mine. Outdoor Décor 2012-06-04T17:20:06.327Z That song puts us in a little knothole, and we need to be broader than that now. Baez in search of era's soundtrack 2011-10-28T19:45:56Z All of it from the narrow knothole that is our point of view. Seamus Heaney’s ‘Field Work’ is the perfect travel companion 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z He did one forest scene that included a drawing of his own face peeking out of a knothole. Old stage scenery studied at historic Colorado opera house 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z “I am beginning to feel as useless as this knothole. Where will our children live?” Paul A. Volcker, Fed Chairman Who Waged War on Inflation, Is Dead at 92 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z At the end of the scene, Curly fires a bullet through a knothole—a sharpshooter’s veiled threat—Jud responds in kind, and the loud blasts jolt us. Daniel Fish’s Dark Take on “Oklahoma!” 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z As a child, she watched the squirrels that made a nest in a knothole of the tree. Lincoln’s street trees worth $1.4B cost money to maintain 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z “I could watch through a kind of knothole — just me alone, in the dark, seeing the next 20 years of my life,” she writes. Maria Sharapova on Serena Williams: ‘Maybe We’ll Become Friends. Or Not.’ 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z That way when there are gaps or knotholes the wall color doesn’t shine through. HGTV's 'Beach Flip' host Josh Temple shares DIY tips for beach house projects 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z “Dear Mr. Volcker,” one builder scrawled on a wooden block with a knothole. Paul A. Volcker, Fed Chairman Who Waged War on Inflation, Is Dead at 92 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z All the razor nicks, knotholes and lessons learned coalesced Monday night at Louisville, in the elimination game, when the Cardinals took a lead into the eighth inning. Cal State Fullerton takes an odd road to Omaha 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Schemmel added, “If we got a piece of wood with a knothole in it, we’d cut the good pieces out and throw them away and use the ones with the knotholes.” $50K improvements transform Iowa bar into upscale venue 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z But sometimes a knothole develops, enabling people to glimpse what lies behind the fence. The Cost of Campaigns 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z For an avid Cubs fan, eyes riveted on the action, a rooftop was only a satisfactory observation post when compared with a knothole. As Cubs Slowly Rebuild, There’s Shouting From the Rooftops 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z You made it through the knothole, welcome to Phase 2. Startup Phases And The Turning Of The Team 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Will small business owners hire advisers and consultants to get them through this knothole? Five Essentials for Small Business in 2013 2012-12-17T13:23:31Z About a foot from my eyes were rough beams of wood disclosed by a smoky yellow light, which flickered on the knotholes and rude joists. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z From now on, day and night, there will be a cat at the knothole, and 'ware mouse! The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z Through a knothole he could see the two men, and hear all that was being said. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z Thus enlightened and reassured, the guard covered the knothole again. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z You may shut your eyes with a bandage, The while world vanishes soon; You may open your eyes at a knothole And see the sun and moon. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z He set his heel in the knothole, and ground it round again. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z He threw a look of disgust and rage at the knothole, which was dark because, no doubt, the lights had been turned down outside to make our cubicle seem lighter. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Gee, I feel as though I’d been drawn through a knothole. The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass The Midnight Call for Assistance 2012-01-02T03:00:17.697Z "On the stoop," replied his friend at the knothole. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z I wished there was a crack or a knothole handy for me to crawl into; but there wa'n't, so I braced up best I could. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z Spitting on the deck he ground his heel leisurely round in a knothole. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z I was sure that a knothole in the wooden wall had come into being within the last five minutes. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z The statue is one of four in a piece depicting four life-size children trying to look through knotholes in a ballpark fence. Missing Ohio ballpark statue found at police dept. 2011-08-16T12:18:08Z Even the boy at the knothole could hardly repress a smile. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z "Out our way, a little knothole in the regulations was found by yours truly," he modestly boasted. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z "I feel as though I had been drawn through a knothole," said Fatty Bates. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z Let me help you to the other side of the mattress farther from that knothole, and you'll whisper what you have to say. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z And then, of course, all these little people stopped playing but they couldn't see anything but the Yellow Dog Tramp's right eye, which, I forgot to tell you, was peeping through a tiny knothole. Little Jack Rabbit and Uncle John Hare 2011-05-09T02:00:05.633Z "Ain't you afraid?" asked the conscientious young man, drawing his eye from the knothole to rest it. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z Through a knothole in a beam above his head a wood worm peered down at him. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z The thought of Fatty being drawn through a knothole was so ludicrous that it provoked a general roar. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z I made Don move to a position where his body blocked the knothole, and unless there was another, which I failed to see, I could work without being overlooked. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z But when he sighted on a tree about three hundred yards away and could see a knothole over the sights, Bud knew there was at least shooting light. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z “In the bathroom there was a painted knothole with an eye looking in,” he said. On Avenue A, a Quirky Slice of Faux Frontier Past 2010-02-22T06:50:00Z One day, when we were playing here, we heard voices on the other side of the partition, and, peeping through a small knothole, saw two pretty children, with whom we soon made acquaintance. The Home Life of Poe The charred wood crumbled beneath his feet, but at last, by stretching up and clinging to a knothole, he managed to reach the nest. A-Birding on a Bronco Then—then other smoke, pungent pinewood smoke, came sifting through knotholes and seams, with ominous sounds of crackling and snapping from the side of the long porch. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade "Somewhere in the Village, nickels to knotholes," Lansberg guessed as he turned to follow. Instant of Decision He stepped upon the banking, next the window with the warped shutter; there was a knothole in it high above the women's heads, towards the top. Strangers and Wayfarers A finger projected from a knothole near the top and said to her very plainly, "Come closer." The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the American Civil War His fingers would go through the nest hole, but not his knuckles, and the knothole where he steadied himself was too slippery to stand on while he enlarged the hole. A-Birding on a Bronco The Indian gazed upon each tree scrutinizingly, and no knothole in the rough boles escaped his attention. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga When they passed by he would run to the other side of the shack where there was a knothole stuffed with a rag, and through this he would peep until he was blinded by dust. Valley of Wild Horses “All the trees and hundreds of birds, some of ’em yellow 106 and some of ’em red, an’ some of ’em so little and cunning they could jump through the knothole in Peg’s kitchen.... Rose O'Paradise Scarcely breathing in her excitement she glided close and applied an eye to a knothole. The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the American Civil War Avery still gazed at the same knothole, but a hot flush was crawling up from under his collar. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 But the knotholes were too small, and, smell as they might, they could not get at him. Eyebright A Story Milt was sure that it was the wind in a knothole. Free Air Poke a stick into a knothole and stir up the leaves at the bottom of the cavity, and then look in. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year As in the outer darkness Mary cautiously returned to the knothole, the three guards in front suddenly called in low tones: "S-s-s-h!" The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the American Civil War Grim of face, the boy took his stand once more at the knothole. Frank of Freedom Hill No nephew of mine is going to grow up and be a knothole audience. Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 A snake's slimy head was thrust through a big knothole in the floor. Land of the Burnt Thigh Is it not likely that the Teleosaurs who watched hungrily from the swamps saw them disappear at last in a hollowed 270 cavity beneath a rotten knothole? The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year When the girl first removed her eyes from the knothole the scene appeared of one velvet blackness; then gradually objects loomed with a dim lustre. The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the American Civil War Only the boy, peering through the knothole, was tense and vibrant. Frank of Freedom Hill More than once he had poked a stick of chewing-gum through a knothole to one of them—a little chap with frightened blue eyes. The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story With plenty of fuel one could get along fairly well unless the tar paper was torn off in strips, leaving the cracks and knotholes open. Land of the Burnt Thigh Moreover, there was a knothole in the high wooden fence that inclosed the lower portion of the yard. Flamsted quarries One of the men tiptoed to a knothole and peered into the barn. The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the American Civil War Face still flushed, Tommy came back to his post and poked his gun through the knothole. Frank of Freedom Hill Chintz and calico, like charity, covered a multitude of sins, as declared in unsightly cracks and knotholes. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War Where did the lumber industry get hold of all the knotholes it sold the poor homesteader? Land of the Burnt Thigh Thereafter, although the girls appreciated the various favors of the knothole, their entire and passionate allegiance was given to the real Marchioness across the way. Flamsted quarries The man suddenly left the knothole and returned to the others. The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the American Civil War The floor contained knotholes through which the field mice and chipmunks came up to share his provisions, and the door, being a trifle larger than the frame, could not be closed entirely. The Dude Wrangler A knothole yawned like a crater a hundred feet away. Beyond the Vanishing Point The floor was full of knotholes, and the boards had shrunk, leaving wide cracks between. Land of the Burnt Thigh All this she confessed to Freckles; and the two, under one pretence or another, managed to make daily visits to the garbage house knothole. Flamsted quarries From sheer desire to see a human, she was obliged to peep again at the knothole. The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the American Civil War Now, startled lest the sound they heard outside was the tread of a redman, the boys peeped through a knothole and saw their father. Some Three Hundred Years Ago "What in the world!" exclaimed Carl, trying to find some crack or knothole. The Story of the Big Front Door Holding the circular bit of wood in his hand, he placed an ear to the knothole, which was hidden from those inside by a huge piece of furniture. The She Boss A Western Story To cure warts: Cut your finger-nails and put them in the knothole of a tree; then stop up the hole, wishing the warts on to some one else. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk As for the girl at the knothole, the sky had fallen at the beginning of this clamour. The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the American Civil War Perhaps I did kick a book that was lying on the floor; but he didn't look at that little knothole, only toward the door that led to the outside office. Dick the Bank Boy Or, A Missing Fortune "I feel as if I'd been pulled through a knothole," said Joy. Gypsy's Cousin Joy Softly his fingers plucked at a knot in a knothole, which he had loosened that evening while Lucy was on watch in the gallery. The She Boss A Western Story And Bully peeped in through a knothole in the fence, and he saw Sammie in the cage. Bully and Bawly No-Tail She started forward and again applied her eyes to the knothole. The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the American Civil War It looks like wood, at least the grain and the shape, and knotholes and even wormholes are there; but it has turned to beautifully brilliant rock. I Married a Ranger If an eye were pressed to a knothole in the shutter it could not follow her. The Place Beyond the Winds The trail, at first so plainly marked, had, as a famous woodsman has said, "petered out into a squirrel track, run up a tree and disappeared into a knothole." The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains He looked through the knothole in the fence, and he saw Sammie and Bully in the cage. Bully and Bawly No-Tail As for the girl at the knothole, when she returned to sense she found herself standing with clinched hands and screaming with her might. The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the American Civil War He spat assiduously through a knothole in the boarding and looked from her to Louis. Captivity He had stepped out of the ranks, and was performing strange manoeuvers about a knothole that looked into the courting-box. Sandy The haymow in the barn and a blessed knothole are associated with many happy hours. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment I felt that I belonged just about as much as a knothole does in a barb-wire fence. Back to the Woods "You sort of look as if you had been drawn through a knothole," remarked Tom Manton, one of the sailors. Bob the Castaway Take a wide board—as wide as you can get it—and as long as it will cut without cracks or knotholes, and saw the ends off square. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870 At last Ann's sharp eyes spied not a door, but a small opening in the wall far above their heads, like a little round window not much bigger than a knothole. The Wonderful Bed I think I could have crawled through the knothole in our back porch, through which I put so many calomel tablets when I was a little kid. The Life of Me; an autobiography "It was a good thing the knothole was there," said Aunt Jamesina rather severely. Anne of the Island He had been discovered with small boys peeping through knotholes at the vacant left field he was supposed to inhabit during play. The Redheaded Outfield There seemed to be a great owl hooting from every hollow tree, and a little one screeching from every knothole. Freckles Sure enough—thirty feet or so from the ground the toe of a much-used leather boot stuck out through a knothole. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Another thing she didn't know was that there was a knothole in the porch floor, under which, as years went by, a small mound of pink tablets grew into a large mound. The Life of Me; an autobiography The boys stretched themselves upon the floor with their eyes to knotholes in the planking, and lay waiting, in a misery of fear. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6. Dropped it through a knothole in the wall. The Heart of the Range At these words the Cobbler's eyes opened big and wide, and his mouth grew round with wonder, like a knothole in a board fence. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood You see, I'd climbed up in the hollow to hide, and to keep there without moving I had to stick my foot out through a knothole. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories It didn't take long for me to put a tablet through a knothole, throw a glass of water out into the yard, and get back into the warm kitchen. The Life of Me; an autobiography He was busy digging the remaining gold-grains out of the crack and the knothole. The Magnetic North On the way he stopped a moment at a fortuitous knothole in the board wall. The Heart of the Range Inside Temple’s lot the full troop was holding forth in archery practice and Tom peered through a knothole and later ventured to a better view-point on top of the fence. Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures "Because somebody has climbed up and stuck an ol' shoe out of a knothole way up." The Spread Eagle and Other Stories The knothole was my own secret which I shared with no one. The Life of Me; an autobiography The fond male flew to a knothole in an old apple-tree, and coaxed her to his side. Locusts and Wild Honey Naturally, having already lost the knife down through the knothole I couldn't lose her again. The Heart of the Range When the spot is surrounded by a high board fence, I think I have seen her peeping at the cabbages through a knothole. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers The majority of the "gents" preferred to aim at various knotholes in the floor and bet on the result, chancing the outpouring of the proprietor's wrath if they missed. Bar-20 Days We often overlook the little things the Lord does for us, like putting knotholes in the most convenient places. The Life of Me; an autobiography Their boldness increases till one sees them hovering with a saucy, inquiring air about barns and out-buildings, peeping into dove-cotes and stable windows, inspecting knotholes and pump-trees, intent only on a place to nest. Wake-Robin Her eyes were fixed dreamily on a big knothole before her, and the thoughts seemed to come out of it and stand before her, demanding imperiously to be thought. Rebecca Mary He looked out cautiously and saw a cloud of smoke over a knothole which was situated close up under the eaves of the barroom; and it was being agitated. Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up Whitefoot the Wood Mouse darted into a knothole in the log on which he had been sitting. The Burgess Animal Book for Children I was about eight years old at the time—that is, at the time I learned to use the knothole. The Life of Me; an autobiography If Seth had arrived he could shout through that knothole and possibly be heard. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights And then with a little muffled cry Rebecca Mary put out her hands and pushed the woman-girl away—back into the knothole whence she had come. Rebecca Mary Many floods, stampedes and blizzards had assailed his nerves, but he yet could pour a glass of liquor, held at arm's length, through a knothole in the floor without wetting the wood. Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up Fanned by the whizzing norther, the fine, dry snow was sifted and bolted through the cracks and knotholes of the logs. Waifs and Strays Part 1 But Monte come to the shack and watched Cash through a knothole the size of one eye till Cash opened up his heart and the bag. Cabin Fever The knothole, however, commanded a view, not of the lighthouse buildings, but of the cove and the bungalow. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights She could sit quietly on the floor opposite the knothole and wait for the Thoughts. Rebecca Mary One end of it was introduced into the shack through a knothole, and the other was secured by wire round the faucet of hydrant in the stable. Penrod and Sam One Thought came out of the knothole, illustrated. Rebecca Mary If there had been a knothole anywhere, she thought to herself, the Thought of Growing Up would have come out of it and confronted her and reminded her of her legs. Rebecca Mary He gave that up, also, and, seeing a knothole in one of the boards in the landward side of his jail, knelt and applied his eye to the aperture. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Why must legs keep on growing and unwelcome Thoughts come out of knotholes? Rebecca Mary His plight being observed through a knothole, his enemies climbed upon the fence and regarded him seriously. Penrod and Sam What Thoughts came out of the knothole to Rebecca Mary she never told to any one. Rebecca Mary Through the knothole he sent a yell for rescue. 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