The clock strikes noon in the city of Daqing and Zhang Jian is still asleep, his knobbly ankles and narrow shoulders protruding from his worn comforter.
And because one offers a study of people long dead is no reason why that glass should be the knobbly 'bottle' kind which hasty judgment might deem more seemly.
But it also reminds him that "chessboard Babylon was so depressing for Nebuchadnezzar's highland wife that he had to build her an artificial knobbly mountainthe famous 'Hanging .
Mariann Fischer Boel in Sofia Echo July 1 marks the return to our shelves of the curved cucumber and the knobbly carrot,said Mariann Fischer Boel, Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development.
Andrew Sullivan in Jakarta Globe By the time you've finished preventing discrimination against the ugly, the short, the skinny, the bald, the knobbly-kneed, the flat-chested, and the stupid,Andrew Sullivan wrote in the London Sunday Times in 1999, "you're living in a...
Sarah Sands in Independent My father was a district commissioner, with the funny hat and knobbly knees,says Sands, quickly adding that "he was a tremendous liberal ...... heartbroken about what happened to Malawi because he was very keen on independence".