Knotful

Clear your coil of kinkings Into perfect plaiting, Locking loops and linkings Interpenetrating. Why should a man benighted, beduped, befooled, besotted, Call knotful knittings plighted, Not knotty but beknotted?

Is't more knotful or bewildered than the skein o'life itself, that a good tale tangles the better to unsnarl?

The lice had eaten their way through her rotting flesh, leaving a skeleton double-row of teeth, and of a once proud neck, a knotful of tendons and veins.

Al was a knotful of butterflies by the time his music struck up and he had forced himself to dance out on to the stage apron.

The leather went whistling through TJ's hands, leaving thin, twin bands of neatly polished skin, until the branch tore loose and a knotful of splintered wood jammed there, bloodying both his palms.

He pulled a knotful of hundred-dollar bills out of his pocket and handed one to her.