“I want a sword not a knitting needle-Kalen ”
“Amazing what the application of a knitting needle could do for one's manners.”
“Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting-needles as she spoke."Yes, a little--but not on land--and not with needles--" Alice was beginning to say.”
“Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.”
“Twelve men conducted the investigation, gathering as on a knitting-needle the accursed stitches of this complicated case all over Moscow.”
“Without an engine, Beebe's bathysphere dangled helplessly from the topside support ship like a ball of yarn suspended from knitting needles.”