...hing oasis. For me it has always been a sheltered place where I could loosen the knots of the strongest emotions, where I could reflect on the hundr...

...each other in contrary motions, pulling him tautly while twisting him into knots that he recognized as the essence of civilized man, and this too he w...

...e for you." Zai's breath caught in her throat. "Thank you." She kneaded the knots in his back. "My demons are of the quiet kind. I need only my brot... ...This is necessary," he said, as he wound it around her head and tied secure knots. The cloth pressed thickly, lushly, against her eyes. She swallowed... ...e wagon, easing her arms behind her. Soft rope encircled her wrists, secure knots pulled into place. Here, too, cushions counteracted the hardness o... ...he others—to their gentle hands on his shoulders, to massages loosening the knots in his back. To the multitudes of wheels and gears whirring in the... ...hen, the agonies in her muscles were her friends. At night Zai groaned, the knots under her skin burning while a hutmate massaged her. After her mus... ...ng names to banish worry. The census of Basc unraveled inside her head, its knots and fabrics folding back on each other as Yata kin groups intertwi... ...nsed against its restraints. She rolled further back and tried to worry the knots free with her teeth. She couldn't. TripStone hoisted her rifle, b...

... seem as if it had begun. It all was a vacuum--a void. He untied the double knots that were contained on his shoes and put them on. Korean people wer...

...e you have seen examples of the nests of the weaver birds in Africa. These small finches build a large tear drop shaped nest with complicated knots ... ...tion Marais allowed the new birds access to the traditional nest building materials. To his surprise they built identical nests with identical knots ...