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