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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

Highway 50, where the Caldor Fire had continued burning out of control toward Lake Tahoe, Safford parked his SUV and scrambled up a rocky knoll to point out a slope barren of trees.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 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

A movement caught her eye and she glanced up to see a least weasel washing his belly on the other side of the knoll.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

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

The conservancy’s Gowanus Lowlands manifesto conjures a dreamscape of sloping grassy knolls, maritime meadows, performance spaces and picnic spots.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 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 been where bells have knolled to church”; if you have ever been within sound of Bow bells; if you have ever been happy and haughty enough to call yourself a Cockney.

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

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

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

From The Setons by O. Douglas

Mountain after mountain ranged in the distance, some with rounded or knolled heads, others rising to a peak.

From Fairy Tales from the German Forests by Margaret Arndt

"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

“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

Friend, a handsome house to lodge a, 139. --, knolling a departing, 62.

From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett

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