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Meanings of knotty point in английском

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Usage of knotty point in английском
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He finished his cigar, and lit another; still the knotty point was not conquered.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue / A Tal...
2
But at length she came to a ' knotty point' in what she was writing.
And Even Now
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One warm August afternoon he sat alone, having resolved to master a knotty point.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
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Darsie wondered if the afternoon's conversation would throw any light on this knotty point.
A College Girl
5
Can you solve this knotty point which has involved us all in such confusion?
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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The rowers bent to their oars once again when this knotty point had been settled.
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
7
He was still pondering over this knotty point when they were ushered into the captain's room.
The Firm of Girdlestone
8
Could not Miss Melville settle that knotty point?
Mr. Hogarth's Will
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There lay the knotty point of the question, and there the grand difficulty of finding an answer.
The Queen of Hearts
10
The knotty point was what could be the effect of a weak electric current in liberating the power.
The Skylark of Space
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The first knotty point discussed, was to settle the manner in which Dirck and myself should reach Mooseridge.
Satanstoe; Or, the Littlepage Manuscripts. A Tale of the Colony
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Hundreds were dying around me when I was applied to to settle this knotty point between the parties.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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For a long time he sat very quietly in his chair, apparently arguing out with himself some knotty point.
The Hermit of Far End
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We were still discussing that knotty point, when Alick came up and settled it in favour of Martin's proposal.
Snow Shoes and Canoes / Or, The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in th...
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That's a pretty knotty point.
A Damsel in Distress
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It was a knotty point, but I made up my mind that we must risk it and use the expresses.
King Solomon's Mines
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