Finally I humbled myself in the dust and, like a fawning reptile, clasped his knees in my arms, entreating mercy and justice.
Erik had an idea that the Baron's knees were clinking together, too.
Instead, he had returned to the house with shaking kneesand a green face, whimpering for help.
As for Ben he sat up on the after deck with his rifle between his knees till the moon went down and the stars began to wane.
Rifles in hand and revolvers on their hips, they struggled bravely along through the mud, that sometimes came up to their knees and sometimes only to their ankles.
He fell on his knees reverentially before the absurd looking piece of jade and beat his head on the damp floor and then gazed at Frank in awe.
Billy, with a reporter's trained instinct, was on his hands and knees in a minute and came amazingly near reconstructing the scene of Ben's capture.
At almost the same instant old Joe fell on his knees in the snow.
Casting his weapon aside, Sandy threw himself down on his knees by the fire.
Lestrange sat with his elbows on his knees studying him, the spare gray hair brushed back tightly from the bony face, on the lips the slightest Voltairean smile.
He grasped his umbrella between his knees with a pair of brown twisted hands, and, sitting very upright, looked critically round the room.
He placed his large hand kindly upon my head, and drawing me between his knees held up my face and kissed me with an air of parental tenderness.
My uncle rose from his knees and locked the iron chest, then, extinguishing my lamp, he and the old woman left the room.
Our kneesgave way beneath us, and down, our arms about each other's necks, Leo and I sank till we lay upon the ground.
These seven were ranged in a line where they stood, clearly in great fear, for the old man fell upon his knees and one of the women began to sob.
I fell to my knees and, as it chanced, my left hand came upon a stone of about the size of a large orange, which I gripped.
Next we bound fragments of another skin rug about our legs and knees to protect them from the chafing of the ice and rocks, and for the same reason put on our thick leather gloves.
But Ayesha still said no word and made no sign, till presently she sank upon her bonyknees and began to pray aloud.
I saw Leo's lips turn white and his knees begin to give; but by some effort he recovered himself, and stayed still and upright like a dead man held by a wire.
A sea smote her on the weather side and veiled her in a cloud of flying spray, but Jimmy could dimly see a man flounder aft up to his knees in water with an axe on his shoulder.
He plodded through rather above his knees in water, which was mostly freshly melted snow, and then turned and looked at the girl as she stood regarding him somewhat curiously from the opposite bank.
Gaupa pressed his knees against the elk’s flanks with all his might, but could not keep his seat.
Gaupa crouched, his knees bent, his chin pressed against the butt.
Well, well, you know those calves and those knees had been through some hard work in his life.
He lay flat, he tried to bend his knees and sit up on his haunches, but the place was too narrow.
Then he lay still, knees bent heavenwards as if he were praying to the sun for help.
And his knees felt as they always did when that glaring yellow moon appeared.
No Bjönn came to place his head on his knees while he was stitching shoes, no Bjönn met him with tail waving in the open door when he had been out and came home, no Bjönn shared his bed under the sheepskin covering in the night.
Again he went down on his knees and elbows as he had done when he lighted a cigarette, got out his matches, and proceeded to strike one.
The latter pressed on after the horse, but the snow lay so deep and his coats were so heavy that, sinking above his knees at each step, he stopped breathless after taking not more than twenty steps.
No; I suppose I must get up on that platform, even if my kneesshould be knocking against each other.
Yes'm," said the boy, but he made no move other than to hug his knees a little closer.
Then, and not till then, Ardea got up on her knees and put her arms around the neck of the Great Dane.
Asleep in the fireplace corner, his littleknees drawn up to his chin and his face streaked with the dried tears, was the three-year-old baby who bore Tom Gordon's name.
Tom locked his clasped fingers fast around his knees and would not open the flood-gates of passion.
Then he fell on his knees on the rough-hewn floor, with the tall mountaineer called William Layne on his right, and on his left a young girl from the choir who was sobbing softly in her handkerchief.
Why did it rouse a dull anger in his heart to be thus reminded of his own scarce-cooled pledge made on his knees under the shadowing cedars?
He grasped despairingly at the fast-fading glories of the vision, dropping on hisknees at the bedside.
I'm mighty glad," said the man; and when he held out his arms the boy flung himself on his knees beside the seat and buried his face in the cushions.
Notwithstanding the warmth of the evening he stood with his shoulders raised and his knees a little bent, as a poorly clad man stands in a chill wind on a wintry day.
She patted her hands gently together between her knees and swayed with rather impish merriment.
And he fell on his knees before a chair and hid his face.
Esther was sitting on a stool beside her father's feet, holding her knees in her arms, and looking with pride from one to the other of her two visitors.
However he remained firm to his resolve, and wandered on till he felt, in his trembling knees and exhausted frame, how deeply the last few hours had affected him.
Her voice grew faint; her knees could no longer support her.
I fell on my knees before her, seized both her hands and covered them with kisses and tears.
His knees shook as he got up; and all his self-possession left him at the thought that he was about to see his father for the first time, consciously.
The next time the little curato sat in his confessional, he sat smiling to himself: Laurella had just risen from her knees after a very long confession.
As soon as she felt herself alone, she sat down upon her bed, for her knees were knocking under her, and she could scarcely stand.
The doctor helped them to carry her into the adjoining room, for her knees knocked together, and she could hardly stand.
Unable to contain himself any longer he fell on hisknees at her feet, clung to her hands, and buried his face in the folds of her dress.
He strode down the precipitous path, and reached the house greatly exhausted, and his knees knocking under him.
The homeliness of our resting-place arrested her for an instant, and perhaps a touch of comic pity for things of such diminutive size as to see nothing but knees where a man stood.
Old Warhead's splashed knees on the level of our heads were seen by us when the thunder had abated.
Cyril bent his head low upon his knees with shame.
With a shock he became aware of me, and was severely visited as before; but this time his motion was rotatory, and he staggered round and round me with knees more afflicted, and with uplifted hands as if beseeching for mercy.
The credit of initiating the policy which brought the Chinese government to its knees belongs exclusively to Lord Ellenborough, then governor-general of India.
She laid her paper down and he dropped to his knees by her side.
As he rose from his knees he asked: "Aunt Minerva, do God work on Sunday?
Then, clutching at hisknees with upturned face, a still beautiful face, she ceased her sobbing.
Slowly she rose to her knees and crawled towards him with clasped hands.
Miss Holt, who was on her knees trying to comfort Raife's mother, rose as the son entered.
And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Before I left my knees I had evidence that my prayer was answered.
The latter fought bravely, and repulsed the Indians, killing many of them and breaking the knees of two chiefs, who afterwards died.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
