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Sykes found that the threads used for sewing were knotted at the ends. It is impossible not to admire animals who have skilfully triumphed over all the obstacles met with in the course of these complicated operations. Catalogue of Birds, etc., p. 16. Tristram, "On the Ornithology of Northern Africa," Isis, 1859-60.
In his own dwelling he had for his own use, instead of the laborious stairs needed by its other inmates, a system of knotted ropes by which he could ascend from cellar to attic, and polished poles by whose aid he could accomplish the most lightning-like descending slides.
With those words he turned, and a moment later rejoined me, his face flushed with anger, and his knotted fingers clenched. He went straight to the Empress and told her of his failure to move Nicholas from his decision.
The penances, therefore, which Catherine appointed her to kneel for a stated length of time until it seemed as though every muscle she possessed were stretched to breaking-point, to fast when her whole healthy young body craved for food, to be chastened with flagellum, a scourge of knotted cords all these grew to be a torment almost beyond endurance.
Tom King was an old un, but a better old un than he had ever encountered an old un who never lost his head, who was remarkably able at defence, whose blows had the impact of a knotted club, and who had a knockout in either hand. Nevertheless, Tom King dared not hit often. He never forgot his battered knuckles, and knew that every hit must count if the knuckles were to last out the fight.
Budlong finally persuaded him Ulie wasn't dressed yet and it hurts worse on the bare hide. Then Mr. Budlong hurried down town to bribe a doctor and borrow a red placard of the board of health. He was just rounding the corner on the way home when he caught sight of Ulie descending from the window by means of a knotted sheet.
He started at the funereal aspect of the room, into which, since he last stood there, undertakers seemed to have stolen. The curtains of the window were festooned with long weepers of crape. The four corners of the red cloth on the round table were knotted with crape.
The cliff edge was rounding back. Every upward hitch was easier than the one before. Now he was scrambling up on toes and knees; now he could rise to his feet. The line led across a waterworn ledge and downward. Ashton peered over, and saw the senseless body of Blake wedged against the other side of the ledge. About it, close below the arms, the line was knotted fast.
At seventeen she took to wearing a knotted cord drawn so tightly that she could neither eat nor breathe without pain. She compressed her arms so tightly with iron chains that she could not remove them without anguish. "I made," she says, "a bed of potsherds, on which I slept with extreme pleasure."
"Ask him, please, where he spent Thursday night." There was a brief interchange between Silva and Mahbub, then the former turned to Goldberger. "It was as I thought," he said. "He spent the night in the worship of the attributes of Kali." The coroner opened an envelope which lay on the table at his elbow and took out a piece of knotted cord.
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