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Example sentences for "kneeled"

Lexicographically close words:
kneads; knee; kneed; kneel; kneele; kneeleth; kneeling; kneels; knees; knele
  1. He kneeled at the same time, took aim, and fired.

  2. Then Jehanne Plantagenet kneeled down to me.

  3. And because I felt there were Heavenly Spirits in the room I kneeled me down, and these two princesses, Jehanne Plantagenet and Blaunche of France, went hand in hand across the orchards to Paradise.

  4. She gave him her hand; he kneeled and kissed it, pressed it to his forehead, then rose and left the room.

  5. Now when my lady saw them how they lay there, and the sunlight red upon them like to blood, she came and kneeled down in front o' me, and lifted up her poor fettered hands meekly, like a little child.

  6. I went aside, and kneeled before the Lord, and begged that he would not let my children fall into their hands, and that they might be satisfied with plunder without taking life.

  7. After I had retired into the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God.

  8. We kneeled down the second time, and when we commenced praying the cramp seized us, gathering the cords in our arms and legs in bunches, and operating equally severe throughout our system.

  9. Before their departure sir James Croft kneeled down before her, declaring that he was sorry to see the day in which he should be brought as a witness against her grace.

  10. As he stood or kneeled before her, she dropped her glove, perhaps not undesignedly, and on his picking it up, graciously desired him to keep it.

  11. Immediately the poor men kneeled down and prayed God to preserve her; for which action they all lost their places the next day.

  12. The bishop kneeled down by her and examined her first of her faith; and she so punctually answered all his several questions, by lifting up her eyes and holding up her hand, as it was a comfort to all the beholders.

  13. When she reached the door of King's college chapel, the chancellor kneeled down and bade her welcome; and the orator, kneeling on the church steps, made her an harangue of nearly half an hour.

  14. The princess on entering kneeled down, and protested herself a true and loyal subject, adding, that she did not doubt that her majesty would one day find her to be such, whatever different report had gone of her.

  15. When I kneeled down before the safe it was not to examine the metal work, but to see if the thief had left a scent.

  16. Taking the key, Malcolm Sage kneeled before the safe door and, by the light of an electric torch, surveyed the whole of the surface with keen-sighted eyes.

  17. As thy Royal mistress hath blessed thee, so also do I;" and as he kneeled before her, she put her hands on his head and prayed fervently.

  18. Morgan and Lee Haines reached Dan at the same moment and kneeled beside him.

  19. She followed him with her eyes, and now she saw a figure stretched straight out on the floor while another man kneeled at his side.

  20. She kneeled again--lowered her head--heard the faint but steady breathing.

  21. As she kneeled by the old man's side she glanced anxiously at her lover's face, which was covered with blood and dust, and presented anything but an attractive appearance.

  22. Glumm did not go forward, but let his men drive back the foe, while he turned and kneeled beside Hakon.

  23. Hilda kneeled at his side, and, raising his head, she laid it in her lap.

  24. He turned, and rode quickly back to the place where the berserk's body lay, dismounted, and kneeled beside it.

  25. The Lord trod it six times in passing between the place where He said to the three, "tarry ye here," and that where He "kneeled down and prayed.

  26. With reverence he kneeled before him, and in shame bowed his head to the ground.

  27. She brought her children, night and morning, to the mouth of the cavern, and there they all kneeled by Paulett, who prayed aloud with them and for them.

  28. Paulett and Ellen kneeled and prayed beside them, and rejoiced that the mother, too, was at rest after the long misery of this scene.

  29. And he kneeled down and gazed at himself once more, while poor Echo had to go weeping away.

  30. Narcissus kneeled down and looked into the lake.

  31. I ran to my fallen adversary, kneeled by him, and could only sob his name.

  32. When I had begun to speak I had kneeled upon the gravel withoutside the low window, rested my arms upon the sill, and lowered my voice to the most confidential whisper.

  33. So there came a damosell, passing faire and young, and she beare a vessell of gold between her hands, and thereto the king kneeled devoutly and said his prayers, and so did all that were there.

  34. Louis advanced to the centre of the apartment, and kneeled upon a cushion which had been provided for him there.

  35. A cushion was placed by the side of the bed, and the half-frightened child, clinging to the hand of his governess, kneeled upon it.

  36. The King of Spain kneeled also upon a similar cushion.

  37. Her husband entered her chamber and kneeled at her bedside.

  38. She kneeled down by the bed and prayed aloud for us, that we might be good children and that she might have strength given her from on high to guide us in the straight and narrow path which leads to life eternal.

  39. At the thought of that time, she kneeled beside his bed again, and prayed, 'O spare his life!

  40. Little Dorrit had put his hand to her lips, and would have kneeled to him, but he gently prevented her, and replaced her in her chair.

  41. He raised himself a little in his low bed, as she kneeled beside it to bring her face near him; and put his hand between hers.

  42. This showed her directly that the Princess knew why she lived all alone by herself spinning at her wheel, and she kneeled down at the Princess's feet, and asked her never to betray her.

  43. But, becoming affectionate almost immediately, she flounced out of it again, and kneeled down on the floor to take her sister, chair and all, in her arms.

  44. But the Abbot walked straight up to him and kneeled upon the floor, and little Otto, full of wonder, did the same.

  45. Three years ago the good Baron Frederick, my uncle, kneeled in the dust and besought mercy at thy father's hands; the mercy he received was the coward blow that slew him.

  46. I suffered real torture every time I kneeled down, and at every step I made.

  47. I kneeled at the side of my bed and my poor heart dissolved in tears.

  48. She raised him as he kneeled at her feet, spoke to him with much kindness, and encouraged him to detail at full length his father's message, and such other news as his brief residence at Dijon had made him acquainted with.

  49. They left their box: men flung the curtains wide, The horses kneeled like one as they withdrew.

  50. The lord Clifford, perceiuing where the earle of Rutland was conueied out of the field (by one of his fathers chapleins, and scholemaister to the same earle) and ouertaking him, stabbed him to the heart with a dagger as he kneeled afore him.

  51. Father," urged Keir, seeing that Colum kneeled unnoticingly, his lips still moving above his grey beard, with the white hair of him falling about his head like a snowdrift slipping from a boulder.

  52. Stepping from the one to the other, he kneeled beside him.

  53. She did not move, perhaps she had not heard, so I kneeled and took one of her hands, whereupon she sprang to her feet looking at me strangely, wildly.

  54. On the way back we passed my pool, where she kneeled ingenuously to bathe her hands and arms, as chastely innocent as a mermaid.

  55. Tommy kneeled and called in a loud voice close to his ear, hoping to reach a consciousness that had receded far into the shadows.

  56. Monsieur, of course, could not bring himself to treat her with anything less than royal deference, so he kneeled and kissed her hand.


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