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Example sentences for "knelt down"

  • I could not help the tears filling my eyes as I knelt down by her in Jacky's place.

  • Old Jones, liking the word brandy on his own score, knelt down on his fat gouty legs with a groan, and laid hold of one of the hands, the girl taking the other.

  • Demar, as he knelt down by the bedside, wringing his hands in despair.

  • He knelt down, and for several minutes was engaged in endeavouring to realize that he was in the presence of God.

  • We took hold of master's hands, knelt down, and kissed them.

  • Harold continued, "Ever since we came to the island I felt as you feel, until the Sabbath when I knelt down in the woods, and gave myself to the Lord.

  • He knelt down, he raised the head, and for a moment or two longer John Temple lived.

  • He laid the revolver on the grass; he knelt down at Elsie's side.

  • Nothing shall ever part us, May," continued John Temple, and once more he knelt down by her side and took both her hands in his.

  • He knelt down at her side; he called her by every endearing name, but still May made no sign.

  • The whole family, men and women, knelt down as the King mounted, and prayed God to bless and defend him from his enemies, and give him a long and happy reign.

  • I knelt down on the floor beside his knees.

  • I knelt down beside my bed; an old habit, long discontinued.

  • On reaching my room, I knelt down at my bedside and prayed, all unworthy as I was to turn my eyes toward heaven.

  • Hearing his name called, he knelt down, and asked the most aged of the priests to give him absolution; then, rising, he advanced to meet the assassins.

  • On entering the forest, he remembered that he had that morning omitted his Ave Marias, so he knelt down to say them.

  • I can give you no idea of the exquisite sense of peace and security that came over me the moment I knelt down at his feet," she said, in relating to me this stage of her vocation.

  • The four women went in softly, and, one after the other, sprinkled the bed clothes with the salt water, knelt down, made the sign of the cross while they mumbled a prayer.

  • I could not believe it, and I knelt down in the snow before this shapeless pulp of flesh to see for myself: it was a woman.

  • Coligny, with which words he rose from his bed, threw a morning gown over his shoulders and knelt down.

  • He rose, carried the girl to her bed, at the head of which he knelt down, and awaited the end of the crisis that the excess of joy had brought on.

  • The doctor was in waiting, and having placed her on a mattress on deck, he knelt down at her side to discover if any spark of life yet remained in her emaciated frame.

  • At last I knelt down by her side and kissed her cheek to arouse her.

  • I knelt down to pray, and all my wasted, childish, wicked life came and stared me in the face.

  • But when we knelt down to pray together, I saw how he was touched, and how his soul kindled within him in harmony with that consecrated, devoted.

  • I knelt down at last, and kissed the poor faded face.

  • She kissed it; she cried over it; she wore it in her bosom always and when she knelt down at night and morning, she held it between her folded hands on her neck.

  • He knelt down in front of her, where he could see her face, and he drew it gently down to his own.

  • He knelt down on the ground, sobbing like a child.

  • When I knelt down to pray my family did not dare to speak to me; they thought I had lost my mind.

  • We knelt down to pray and while we were praying I heard a great commotion and when we rose from our knees we found that two thirds of the people were gone.

  • It was now dusk, and on reaching my room in the house where I stayed, I knelt down beside a chair to pray for him.

  • When we knelt down to pray I laid my hands on his knee and asked the Lord to heal him and he was healed instantly.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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