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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
knoll .
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Examples
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O Mary! this is the land of congyration — The bell knolled when we were there — I saw lights, and heard lamentations. —
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In August of 1942 a Mexican youth named José Diaz was beaten to death and run over with a car out at the Sleepy Lagoon — a grass-knolled meeting place for gang members in the Williams Ranch area of Central LA.
The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988
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Also on the 26. daie of Januarie, there chanced a maruellous earthquake in Northfolke, in the Ile of Elie, and in Suffolke, so that men as they stood on the ground were ouerthrowne therewith, and buildings so shaken, that the belles in stéeples knolled: the like had also chanced in the
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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"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.
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905
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In the direction of the Mexican quarter, the bell of the cathedral knolled at intervals.
Blix Frank Norris 1886
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I too have been knolled to church, and sat at good men's feasts; but I bear no mark of it.
An Inland Voyage 1878
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I too have been knolled to church, and sat at good men's feasts; but I bear no mark of it.
An Inland Voyage Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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I, too, have been knolled to church, and sat at good men's feasts; but I bear no mark of it.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Church, plain as way to parish, 68. seed of the, 756. to be of no, is dangerous, 369. where bells have knolled to, 68. where God built a, 770. who builds to God a, 322. without a bishop, 588.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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You might argue that having beaten South Africa 41-39 for their first win on the highveld since shortly before JFK was grassy-knolled in Dallas, they would be feeling pretty good about themselves.
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