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From home bakers to professionals, influencers to non-bakers, everyone places their cakes on the tables stretching across the grassy knoll, with Sydney's famed Harbour Bridge as the backdrop.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

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

Dr. van Heerden came over the edge of the knoll with a rifle slung over his shoulder.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025

He stood near the rushing river, the rolling hills covered in white oaks, the pristine creeks flowing gently beside grassy knolls dotted with wildflowers.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

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

We crawled over knolls usually submerged by the Bay.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" 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

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 Smollett, T. (Tobias)

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 Cooper, James Fenimore

If ever you have looked on better things, If ever been where bells have knolled to church.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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 Parton, James

"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 Bowling, John

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 Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John

Seventy-three bells in chromatic diapason—with their tinkling, ringing, tolling, knolling peal!

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The knolling of the heavy bell grows softer.

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

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

From Old Church Lore by Andrews, William