knoll
noun
a small, rounded hill or eminence; hillock.
have knolled
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present perfectof knoll.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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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 Cooper, James Fenimore
"If ever you have looked on better days, If ever been where bells have knolled to church."
From The Setons by Douglas, O.
If ever you have looked on better things, If ever been where bells have knolled to church.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
“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 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
The humble records of my life to search, I have not herded with mere pagan beasts: But sometimes I have "sat at good men's feasts," And I have been "where bells have knolled to church."
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
