His mother held him on her knee, and telling Beulah she "had been a good, sensible girl to bathe him so promptly," gave her permission to retire.
One afternoon Beulah sat holding him on her knee: he had fallen asleep, with one tiny hand clasping hers, and while he slept she read.
While Edna gave a brief account of her childhood, Felix nestled his hand into hers, and laid his head on her knee, listening eagerly to every word.
And Olive herself, as she sat with her hands crossed on her knee, her bending head and pensive eyes out-gazing, added no little to the scene.
Sybilla's hands fell on her knee, and it was doubtful which expression was dominant in her countenance--womanly pain, or womanly indignation.
Many a mother with her children at her knee, may now and then call to mind some old playmate, for whom, when they were girls together, she felt such an intense love.
I can faintly remember learning the alphabet at her knee.
My aunt sitting on a quantity of luggage, with her two birds before her, and her cat on her knee, like a female Robinson Crusoe, drinking tea.
On seeing the master enter, the old woman stopped with the bellows on her knee, and said something that I thought sounded like 'My Charley!
Peggotty had a basket of refreshments on her knee, which would have lasted us out handsomely, if we had been going to London by the same conveyance.
When Bones went out to post this curious epistle, his wife took Tottie on her knee, and, embracing her, rocked to and fro, uttering a moaning sound.
In her indignation she clenched her fist and brought it down on her knee.
And Joan spread the letter on her knee; her hands were trembling as she patted it open.
Mrs. Tweksbury's breath caught in her throat--she strangled but controlled herself and bent as a queen might to the sweet uplifted face at her knee.
Her ladyship leaned forward in her chair, her elbow on her knee, her chin held in her hand, to gaze at her.
Tell me a 'tory," said baby Jeanneton, creeping to her knee a little later.
Near the fireplace sat a lovely faced mother with a little two-year-old on her knee and an older child beside her.
One day Hetty sat by the fire with her precious box on her knee, which she was putting to rights for the twentieth time.
He no longer climbed on her knee to pet her as he had formerly done; but, instead, would go and sit down in his little chair in the chimney-corner and open a volume.
In the garden, with her hands folded on her knee, Helen was sitting meekly on a stool under the poplars and watching the swaying of the tree-tops.
She spoke aloud, but her forehead was on the letter on her knee.
She smiled at him and looked at the hands on her knee.
Madeleine caught her skate in a crack, fell on her knee, and said she had now loosened the strap altogether.
She was sitting upright on her chair, letting the tears stream unchecked; her two hands lay upturned on her knee; in one of them was a diminutive lace handkerchief, rolled to a ball, with which now and then she dabbed away the hottest tears.
She had a writing-board on her knee, and a hand resting on it still held a stylograph.
Tony touched her hand, which lay open on her knee, and played with the fingers a minute.
At length he turned away, and was about to leave the room as quietly as he had come, when Tims brought him to a stand-still at her knee.
Mary had a trio of sobbing children on her knee, in the living-room of one of the cottages, when there was a sudden tramp outside.
By the waterside, with a book on her knee, sat a lady who rose as they came in sight.
Then her hand, holding it, dropped to her knee again; the other hand came to close over it; and her eyes shut.
It was the pain in her knee, making her nights so sleepless and wearisome, that was taking her strength away, she thought; if she could only rest as she used to do, she would soon be well.
She had suffered much less with her knee of late, and she was beginning to hope that the worst was passed.
She laid down the book and rocked the baby gently on her knee.
She leaned her head on her hand, and sighed many times, as she sat gazing on the face of her baby, who had fallen asleep on her knee.
She was squatted on her heels, steadying one elbow on her knee.
The double-jack struck her hand, glanced and landed another blow on her knee; one of those terribly painful blows that take your breath and make you see stars without crippling you permanently.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her knee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
