"Knuckles" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have his eyes out. The age is a fast one, you know; so, when the man feels like having his glims doused, he just jumps into the midst of a crowd of real b'hoys, runs his head, good-naturedly, you know, against a pair of knuckles, and the business is settled with "neatness and despatch," as the ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 33, November 12, 1870 • Various
... clenched so violently that the knuckles grew a bloodless white, and the look of pain, lying deep down in his eyes, changed to ...
— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson
... so intent were the thieves on fleecing each other, that they took no manner of notice of us, but continued their scoundrel work, eagerly stretched over the table, thwacking down their cards with filthy knuckles, and at every stroke bawling out, "there's a ...
— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems
... playing single-stick with bone poles instead of wooden ones. Two men stand apart, and pommel each other with their fists (a hard bunch of knuckles permanently attached to the arms, and made globular, or extended into a palm, at the pleasure of the proprietor), till one of them, finding himself sufficiently ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... law knows neither hate nor love. You watched it paw, Frantic with lust of life, the yielding air And were amused. God's Image! Did you care, pitying one moment, see the swift hands claw For life and darkness, know and hate your trap? I saw your knuckles gleam, your hand swing free; A cry; The blind face crashed against the wall. Then death and stillness and—— You grinned. Mayhap, Snaring the blind mole of humanity, God made you in His image ...
— Miscellany of Poetry - 1919 • Various
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