There was a pause in the service, a momentary silence only broken by the smothered sobs of the novice who knelt next to Juanita.
After this he lay quite still, so still that at last the notary, who stood watching him, slowlyknelt down and fell to praying for the soul that was gone.
She knelt down and looked over; then she turned, still on her knees, and clasped her right hand round his wrist while he held hers in his strong grip.
And Juanita knelt on the road while he laid his hand on her hair with a smile half amused and half pathetic.
But Juanita knelt upright, her face half turned so that they could see her clear-cut profile against the candle-light beyond.
There seemed to be some nuns within the screen while others knelt without; four knelt apart, as if awaiting admission to the inner sanctum.
This was the image, I clearly understood, which Columbus' men had kneltto when they were about to go forth upon the high seas.
She finally quietly left the side of her sleeping husband, and knelt before the Lord in prayer; and then, returning to bed, soon fell into a peaceful slumber.
That night, as sheknelt by her bedside, she thanked God for His loving-kindness to her, in her hour of great trial.
She knelt down, and clasping her tiny hands looked heavenward with sweet trustfulness as she murmured: "Dod bless my papa, and take care of him.
But there again, alone with him, the angelical monk knelt before the prisoner, and reproached him for his conduct toward the Pope with that sweetness he never lost, and which so greatly astonished his biographer Vasari.
Before it knelt the priest, chaunting, in a very low voice, the office for the dead, which was responded to by the Italian valets kneeling beside the bed.
The Pope knelt down to recite the Angelus, and dried the tears which since St. Peter so often had reddened the eyes of the sovereign pontiffs.
I knelt beside her bed, with eyes bathed in tears; I received her sad farewell and kissed her.
The Beato knelt down--his forehead in the dust--to kiss the feet of His Holiness.
The Beato, without saying a word to excuse himself, knelt down and simply made a sign he would rather not eat.
He knelt before him, rubbed his hands in his own, and threw in his face the water in the vase which was used in his painting.
Euphrasie, by a sudden impulse, rose and knelt by Annie's side; kissing her hands and bathing them with her tears.
George Hamon presently knelt beside him again and gazed long into his face, and then examined his wound carefully.
He knelt and turned the other gingerly over, and felt his heart beating.
My mother's face was very white and pinched as she knelt down beside it, and at first sight she started and looked quickly up at Uncle George as though in doubt or denial.
And at last he knelt down suddenly and did exactly as Uncle George had done--lifted the black moustache from off the unconscious man's mouth, and threw back his own head to study the result.
Then he knelt again, and looked at his wound, and shook his head.
We will see," and I managed a light with my flint and steel and kneltdown by the fallen man.
My grandfather, who was then a small boy, said that after buckling on his iron breast and back plates, his father knelt with the family and prayed.
I felt weak and guilty as I knelt by him, and picked up his rackets, gun, and ammunition.
I pulled Ben's frock on, and left the neck of it open so that I could get the stock of the gun in to my shoulder, and spread out your f-frock and knelt on it.
Then, having knelt together first in prayer, And having lifted a pathetical High hymn of triumph over death, they rose Calm and addressed themselves anew to life: A little patience and the Lord would come.
The chaplain knelt beneath the altar; and the Prince knelt down at the faldstool, the Duke beside him on the floor.
When they were got there, the priest looked curiously about him, and presently knelt down before the carving, and said a little prayer to himself.
The time flew fast; and presently Renatus heard the great bell ring the hour of midnight; so he knelt and prayed again, with all his might, that God would bless him and open his eyes.
So he knelt in the silence; and then in a moment, he knew not where or whence, the whole air seemed full of a heavenly music about them, such music as he had never dreamed of, the very soul and essence of the music of earth.
The nearest to him was an ancient man, with white hair; he knelt very upright and strong; his face was like parchment, with heavy lines, but his eyes glowed like a fire.
He stooped and knelt down, and was rewarded, not with a sight of Polly or Martha, but of the little old man, peering on his knees into what seemed to Jem like the mouth of a well.
There was a slight noise of breaking glass, the blood trickled from some small cuts at his lips, then a cry arose from Mr. Dockett, who had knelt beside him and was staring at his arm.
Violet--for I will call you by that name once and for the last time--you taught me to love you but to scorn the slave whoknelt at your feet.
I hoped to reach that place and to seat another there beside me, rather let me say, upon the throne itself while I knelt at the feet.
She came quickly round to him and knelt at his side.
And as he knelt down by her, and took her tenderly in his arms, she relapsed into the unconscious state from which his entrance had momentarily roused her.
Liszt laughingly declared that he would furnish them himself, and crawling under the piano he knelt there while Chopin played, and completely supplied the place of the pedals.
Evening was closing in; his sister knelt by his bedside, weeping.
With daylight she rose to her feet, determined to find her lover, but had scarcely gone twenty yards before, with a low cry of grief, she knelt beside the body of a dead man.
Nor did it remain unconsecrated, for beside it Madam Marx knelt and spoke with faltering lips the remnants of the prayers she had learned when a child.
The pretty blue-eyed boy laughed and knelt down by your side, repeating the question his mother had prompted, and you kissed him and lisped 'yes.
Gradually she infused some hope into the mother's heart, and presently they knelt and prayed to God to restore Geraldine to their arms again.
When the sympathetic women left her alone that evening in her room, sheknelt down in a passion of repentance, and prayed God to forgive her for her great sin in trying to throw away the life He had given.
He stretched his hand to her and the princess came silently and knelt before him.
Without surprise he saw his daughter enter and, as she kneltupon the blanket beside him, he stretched a hand and drew her close.
But instead, in real concern, the young Englishman knelt again beside her.
It was soon time for the children to go to bed; but before he left the room, little Maurice knelt down beside his mother and said his evening prayer.
Very much; and so does Madge," he answered, laying his hand on hers as sheknelt beside him.
She moistened his lips with a stimulant, then knelt beside him, with her eyes fixed upon him in intense anxiety.
I acted upon the suggestion, knelt down in the bottom of the wagon, and leaned over the dasher to whip him on his belly, then climbed out on the shafts and snapped about his ears; but he stood it much better than I.
And when he came to the hillock and knelt down again beside Gurney, there was no malice in them.
And when it was necessary to keep them down, they knelt upon them, and prevented them from rising, till the ropes were secured.
In each case one of the goats then 'knelt down with great caution, and crouched as close as it could lie, when the other walked over its back.
He followed her to the pretty spot, and she knelt down by it and removed a leaf or a dead flower here and there.
Rupert cried; and they knelt together, hand in hand, looking into each other's eyes as tenderly as children.
She knelt and sobbed upon my knee, praying that I would spare her that one woe.
The brown earth was sweet and odorous, as it had been on the Sunday morning Sheba had knelt and kissed it, and the garden had covered itself, as then, with hyacinths and daffodils and white narcissus.
More than once Sheba knelt down and hid her face among the flowers, kissing them.
Sheba knelt beside it and began to lay her bridal blossoms on the grass-covered earth.
He knelt beside her on the sofa, his arms thrown round her neck.
She knelt down by the boy, and busied herself in rubbing off the sand with which his little face and hands were covered, fortunately the only trace which the accident had left.
I had never heard so sweet a sound as came from between her bright red lips, while there she knelt and gazed at me; neither had I ever seen anything so beautiful as the large dark eyes intent upon me, full of pity and wonder.
And I tried to soothe her with my feeble hand, as now she knelt before me.
I will cure your son," said Rasputin slowly, after he had knelt beside him and looked long and earnestly into his eyes without uttering a word.
When it was discovered the Empress saw it in secret and knelt before it, crying hysterically for half-an-hour.
The "Father" had only an hour before returned from Tsarskoe-Selo, where he had knelt at the bedside of the poor little Tsarevitch and then performed a pretended miracle.
She knelt at his feet, and laid her head upon his arm.
Then she tore herself away, and the next moment she would have mounted the steps and knelt before the block, but.
Lord Conyngham knelt down and kissed my hand, at the same time delivering to me the official announcement of the poor King's demise.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knelt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
