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Finally, a driver came to the rescue, jumping out of his car and racing onto the knoll, baiting the turkey to give chase.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2023

With treelike structures, a green knoll and overhead chimes incorporating colorful carved birds, the 3,500-square-foot space exposes young minds to art’s most fundamental ingredients: materials.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

The multicolored toilet had been left in a grassy knoll near an AMC Theatre at the mall, GPD Sgt.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2023

"I heard that - I don't even know what a knoll is," Norrie said.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2022

Luna heard the sound of footsteps approaching on the far side of the knoll before she saw it: a pair of glowing eyes.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Homeless people live in or around the park, many sleeping on the grassy knolls by the water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025

Iowa at the time, Mr. Hill said, would have been a “parkland,” with patches of trees mixed in with grassy knolls.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 1, 2023

Three zebras have been frocklicking through the lush, grassy knolls of Prince George’s County, Maryland, since the end of August.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2021

At viewing areas along Woodford-Tehachapi Road, the trains can be seen approaching from miles away across a wide open landscape of oak-studded slopes and large grassy knolls.

From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2017

She was a woman who had known desire, and who had danced upon the knolls by Lake Champlain.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Spreads in their 160-page book show some outfits knolled from hat to scarf to shoes to handbag, alongside sketches from the Mattel archives and drawings by the film’s costume designers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024

If ever you have looked on better days, If ever been where bells have knolled to church; If ever sat at any good man's feast!

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper

The humble records of my life to search, I have not herded with mere pagan beasts: But sometimes I have "sat at good men's feasts," And I have been "where bells have knolled to church."

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

In the direction of the Mexican quarter, the bell of the cathedral knolled at intervals.

From Blix by Frank Norris

O Mary! this is the land of congyration — The bell knolled when we were there — I saw lights, and heard lamentations.

From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Five years has a melancholy sound to me now, for it is like a passing-bell, knolling away time.

From Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 by Robert Ornsby

“And his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell Remembered knolling a departing friend.”

From Old Church Lore by William Andrews

The knolling of the heavy bell grows softer.

From David Lockwin—The People's Idol by John McGovern

The first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd knolling a departing friend.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

"Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remembered knolling a departed friend."

From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling