No one could have hidden behind Brick: for a troll he was stick thin to the point of knobbliness.

She laid hands across his webbed and clawed paws, because his own hands were further back, gripped their knobbliness, and said gladly: "I was sure of it."

In contrast to the Vauxhall and Ford, the Citroen's suspension failed to absorb surface abrasions which "generate high-frequency agitation and knobbliness".

JOSEPH CONRAD'S real name—Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski—seems to express all the prickliness of his character and unassimilated knobbliness of his Polish background.