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- noun A small
hill . Alternate form ofknoll , common in Scotland and Ulster; also known in England.
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Examples
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Then follows a pathetic picture of one such widow, trembling and fainting for hunger, obliged, on her way to the well for a can of water, her only drink, to sit down on a 'knowe' and say a prayer.
Lady Byron Vindicated Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 1870
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Then follows a pathetic picture of one such widow, trembling and fainting for hunger, obliged, on her way to the well for a can of water, her only drink, to sit down on a 'knowe' and say a prayer.
Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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Behold Cymon, view Themistocles, and a thousand others, how they have differed, and fallen to better from themselves, and deceive the expectation of such as knowe them.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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"Who so list to hount," he wrote, "I knowe where is an hynde . . ."
Love in literature 2011
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I doubt you even knowe what MBTI is, so shut your pie hole!
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Honestly, I really do knowe howe to spell “crowd.”
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(1′) I knowe that sorte of men ryght well [attested 1560]
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(1′) I knowe that sorte of men ryght well [attested 1560]
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"And well we knowe that these creatures are closer to the Beaste in nature than to Noble Manne-"
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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Everyone i knowe was talking about how stupid it looked.
Interpreting Speed Racer's Box Office Failure « FirstShowing.net 2008
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