1 But I'm made of knotty Aroostook hemlock; I don't budge.
2 He must once have been a very strong man, but now his great frame, with big, knotty joints, had a wasted look, and the skin was drawn tight over his high cheekbones.
3 There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches.
4 You'll find him a knotty problem, though.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 5 Struggling and kicking under the cuts of the cane and the blows of the knotty stump Stephen was borne back against a barbed wire fence.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 6 The slab has here been replaced by a cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty and petrified wood which resemble huge bones.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT 7 He ended; the other, putting out all his strength, hurls his rough spear, knotty and unpeeled.