1
That was a favorite trick of Red's-tying hard knots in other boys' clothes.
2
Or shall we say a very stiff cat-o'-nine-tails with small hard knots upon it?
3
It often wrinkles up his face, and ties hard knots in the wrinkled lines.
4
My thighs and calves were tight, hard knots of pain.
5
Uncle Henry's eyes twinkled and the many wrinkles about them screwed up into hard knots.
6
And we won't worry now about the hard knots over in the back of the arithmetic.
7
You see the sleeves of her nightgown were tied in hard knots by her rascally brothers.
8
The potential tier of hard knots laughed genially.
9
I will stay in his cave all night, and tangle his fur into little hard knots!
10
Mrs. Donovan was twisting the corners of her apron into hard knots and her mouth twitched with nervousness.
11
She had the bills tied in a handkerchief, and it took her several minutes to untie the hard knots.
12
As he absently tied the poker into hard knots with his nervous fingers, I watched him with some interest.
13
The ground was sawdust and the pebbles scattered around were hard knots from trees, worn smooth in course of time.
14
But some unseen influence prevented Oswald doing this; or it may have been because both his bootlaces were in hard knots.
15
His coat was pulled off, and he was rolled up in a bundle, and tied with string in very hard knots.
16
The cords with which his hands and knees had been bound dropped off, though they had been tied in hard knots.
