Beside it lay two pieces of a stout and knobbly walking stick which had been broken in half.

The mate wrinkled his half inch of knobbly brow as he read the paper in a low undertone, after the manner of illiterate men.

Stretching one hand out, she softly touched the knobbly nose and laughed aloud, hunching her shoulders in glee.

It was a narrow lane leading to Southwark High Street, paved with knobbly stones and walled in with tall houses.