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Usage examples of knot.

Ross absently pulled the cigarette from his mouth and looked at it, brow knotted in concentration.

Then Don Esteban took from his breast pocket a bundle of thongs tanned the color of acanthus wood, the fringes of which, painted red, were twisted into numerous knots.

DC motor aft in the engine room capable of turning the shaft to achieve 3 knots using battery power alone.

By the time she stepped onto dirt he was sliding swiftly alongshore, heading for a small knot of hooded and robed Funor about halfway back to the rivermouth.

Vpon the other Anaglyph, I did behold a merrie and pleasant maiesticall personage, like a yoong fat boye, crowned with two folding serpents, one white, and the other blacke, tied into a knot.

Brazil waded through the tall grass at the edge of the apiary, his mouth dry and a twisting knot in his stomach.

The cheese - cloth gag got a hole bitten through it as Asey went at the remaining knots with everything he had.

She glared at him with her hands on her hips, her mouth set irritably aslant upward, her eyebrows gathered into a dark knot over her nose.

Predator, Banausic, and a knot of a half-dozen made up the rear guard.

He made no concessions to the warm weather: he wore a black barathea morning suit with a fancy brocaded waistcoat, and a loose tic with a silver pin through the knot.

Though TARPS technology allowed the reconnaissance aircraft to move at a reasonably high speed, Batman was cruising at nearly five hundred knots, the need to stick to a particular course was irksome to any fighter pilot.

At the end of one drop Roger cannot undo the knot at the end of his belay line, to send it back up for Stephan.

The balance of the frightful herd was now circling rapidly and with bewildering speed about the little knot of victims.

From the ports they counted she had at least eight guns, and as Biter bore down close on her, they could see that knots of men had gathered round the pieces, almost as if they meant to clear away for action.

His hands blurred and conjured up a perfect knot, making them fast to a heavy iron bitt on the pier.