He kept her on his knee some time while he and she drank tea.
Many of us can remember his smile as he listened to our feeble objections to his logic, or how he ran his hand through his curls and tossed one knee on top of the other when it was time to bring the full battery of his mind against us.
It was a hard portage and we sometimes sank knee deep into the marsh and got mired frequently, but finally reached the lake.
He killed it by pressing his knee on its breast and stifling its heart beats.
In the same minute, Waymark had bent across his knee a large pointer which stood in a corner of the room, and had snapped it into two pieces.
The old man drew up his feet, threw one leg over the other, and began to tap upon his knee with the fingers of one hand.
To turn a cabaret into a court the movie men merely exchange their Fifth Avenue evening dress for short coats and knee breeches, heavily wadded and quilted, and wear large wigs.
Those holding to the straps will elevate one leg, keeping the knee in the air.
In particular, she was fond of little children, and the small girls of the school clung round her, pressing up to her side, and begging to be allowed to sit on her knee and fondle her, as tiny girls will.
She scrambled immediately off Robina's knee and, pushing aside her companions, went up to the boy and took his hand.
I see no reason this body need share a table with a crowd of rebels who'll not bend a knee to the rightful sovereign of England.
Then he felt a pain in hisknee as it struck against the stone--oddly, that was his first sensation, and he wondered fleetingly if it would still be stiff when he mounted his mare in the morning.
His widowed mother taught the boy at her knee the elements of reading and writing, and thus laid the foundation of an education which has been completed in the school of the world.
Rumour magnified their numbers; while the fatalism that used to nerve the Moslem in his great days now predisposed him to bow the knee and mutter Kismet at the advent of the seemingly predestined masters of Egypt.
I may add that the hose were gartered below the knee to hold them taut with rich garters, but if a man were a Garter Knight he wore but the garter of his Order.
Upon the legs they wore neat-fitting drawers of wool or cloth, dyed or of natural colour, or loose trousers of the same materials, sometimes worn loose, but more generally bound round just above the knee and at the ankle.
Bandages or garters crossed from the ankle to the knee to confine the loose trousers or ornament the tights.
This mention of wide cannons leads me to suppose that at this time any ornament at the knee would be called cannons, whether it was a part of the breeches or the stockings, or a separate frill or bunch of ribbons to put on.
When it was gone the renewed stillness and the restored, dim light found the prisoner on his feet; upheld by a guard on either hand and safely lashed, from knee to shoulder, in firm-laced rope.
And he plumped down on Herrick's knee the duplicate of the typewritten envelope.
His great cowhide boots were drawn to the knee over his trousers.
Once more Dundas gazed fixedly at the face of the young mountaineer, who still bent on one knee on the hearth, watching with smiling eyes the triumphs of his fire-making.
He gathered up his knee again and subsided into silence.
One of them--even at this crucial moment Yerby noticed it with a pang of regretful despair--held noiseless on his knee a violin, and more than once addressed himself seriously to rubbing rosin over the bow.
I can' bear to get down en pray or nothin like dat, my knee does ache me so bad.
He seemed to be quite satisfied with what he found there, for he gave a tremendous guffaw, smacked his big knee and chuckled inwardly.
On she crawled, hand over hand and knee over knee, nearer and nearer to the spot where Macka and Ulysses faced one another.
A very gallant deed, sir," the king said to Oswald, as the latter bent upon one knee and handed the letter to him.
He held them towards the negro sergeant, who, under the eye of the Governor, resisted, and then spread the tickets on his knee like a hand at cards.
He had his knee pressed against the top bar and his bare toes on the iron rail beneath it.
Some of the boys stood still, knee deep in the water, frightened half to death by that wicked word--trump.
The poor woman began to cry as she said this, and calling the little girl to her knee kissed her with mournful tenderness.
She tried and tried, but madame would go," said Paul, dropping on one knee by Rose, and pleading for her with his eyes.
Would you give up the hours that he's on your knee The richest man in the world to be?
Within some humble home, no doubt, that instrument of greater things Now climbs upon his father's knee or to his mother's garments clings.
Oh, if she had been with her Pa now, she would have sat down on his knee and begged his pardon!
