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  • We finally selected a small bare rice patch, which, though extremely "knubbly," had the merits of being almost level, moderately remote from the village and its smells, and quite close to a perfect spring.

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

  • He held out his hand, a dirty, knubbly, ragged-nailed hand -- the hand that was once so irritatingly manicured.

    The Red Planet William John Locke 1896

  • But scarcely had he sunk down before he sprang up again, with a loud cry, and drew out of his coat-tail pocket a knubbly little object, which he hurled away far down the avenue.

    Tales of Two Countries Alexander Lange Kielland 1877

  • He was a hard lump of granite, knubbly as sugar-candy, which almost seemed to bear a personal resemblance to "Feldtmarschall Vorwärts."

    Tales of Two Countries Alexander Lange Kielland 1877

  • The roads are paved with round, knubbly stones, such as you see sometimes in narrow lanes and courts in seaside places at home.

    By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War 1867

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