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Sentences ending with knees

Git down on yo' knees! [5]
Some, no doubt, would rather have fought than have had peace at the price; but they could not free their minds from the sacred force which had brought most of the crowd of faction-fighters to their knees. [11]
See, I plead with you on my very knees! [5]
His fingers fussed with the rug that covered his knees. [11]
He found her with her father alone, her head at her knees. [11]
The wizened Elder, with eyes upon the ceiling and his long white chin like ivory on his great collar, began to pray, sitting where he was, his hands upon his knees. [11]
There sat Mahommed watching, a neboot of dom-wood across his knees. [11]
Now he responded, walked round her, coming closer, till his body made a half-circle about her, and his head was at her knees. [11]
The pirate, unconfused, undismayed, with his wide blue asking eyes, came forward and dropped upon his knees. [11]
Unable to speak, unable to stand, Jane dropped on her knees. [13]

Short sentences using knees

Little Eugenie's knees trembled. [9]
Dyer on his knees! [13]
Honora fell on her knees. [9]
On my knees! [5]

More example sentences with the word knees in them

I would force you to your knees and compel you to crave my pardon. [10]
Upon your knees, ye pauper scum, and do him reverence! [5]
You can sit, with your knees drawn up to your chin and your arms clasped around them, but you are bound to turn over presently, because you are top-heavy in that position. [5]
Exactly opposite Weyrother, with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Miloradovich in a military pose, his elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders raised. [2]
He sat long with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands, meditating. [5]
There he sat with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands when Burlingame entered the room. [11]
Richards, sitting there with his chair tilted back against the wall and his chin between his knees, heard something fall. [5]
He climbed on, with frequent stops to watch the rim, and before he dreamed of gaining the bench he bumped his knees into it, and saw, in the dim gray light, his rifle and the rabbit. [13]
But there were white faces and trembling knees and anxious looks. [4]
This hush continued while I was being chained to the stake; it still continued while the fagots were carefully and tediously piled about my ankles, my knees, my thighs, my body. [5]
The patched tablecloths which he spread over the tops were coarse and much worn; the dishes carried after him by the two assistants, whose knees bent under the burden, were made of tin, and marred by many a dent. [10]
On that side where I stood ancient oaks thrust their gnarled roots into the water, and these knees were bridged by treacherous platforms of moss. [9]
Odds life, but when I saw the Gentleman of the Rod and his fellow get down on their knees to lay the cloth upon the table, as though it was an altar at Jerusalem, I thought it time to say my prayers. [11]
The knight's knees were trembling under him, and as the monster, in the form of a unicorn, charged against his shield he fell to the ground. [10]
All the millions went down on their knees, and stared, and looked glad, and burst out into a joyful kind of murmurs. [5]
Her knees became weak, she looked around her dizzily, and beheld the triumphant professional smile of the Honourable Dave Beckwith. [9]
In an instant we were on our knees gathering the golden meal in our hands. [9]
In an instant we were down on our knees on the hard dirt floor, and there was a man's foot in a moccasin! [9]
Though the grass was still wet, she got down on her knees in her white skirt, the better to push the boat along the shore: once it drifted beyond their reach, and was only rescued by a fallen branch discovered with difficulty. [9]
When the service was over, Kutuzov stepped up to the icon, sank heavily to his knees, bowed to the ground, and for a long time tried vainly to rise, but could not do so on account of his weakness and weight. [2]
The great braggart was no better now than a wisp of grass in the wind, and it was more than homage that bent him to his knees as the Queen looked him full in the eyes. [11]
So now we was both on our knees with our chins on a fence rail and gazing--yes, and gasping too. [5]
En when I wake up en fine you back agin, all safe en soun', de tears come, en I could a got down on my knees en kiss yo' foot, I's so thankful. [5]
Her hands groped vainly for some support, and with a loud cry she sank on her knees beside Hur's token. [10]
The three dropped upon their knees, and Elizabeth waved without the pages and the gentleman-in-waiting. [11]
So we shortened up one of the calico gowns, and I turned up my trouser-legs to my knees and got into it. [5]
When I waked up just at daybreak he was sitting there with his head down betwixt his knees, moaning and mourning to himself. [5]
The flames leapt up into the air and all the Persians fell on their knees and hid their faces, in the belief that the fire was now ascending to their great god and father. [10]
Doctor, there was two places in the old carpet that was all threadbare, where his knees had worn 'em. [6]
The knees of twenty generations had worn the pavement; their feet had hollowed the steps; their shoulders had smoothed the columns. [6]
Orlando's ruddy face turned white; something seemed to blind him for an instant, and then he was on his knees beside her, lifting up her head, feeling her heart. [11]
As the Emperor turned to leave the room she gathered courage, stood in the doorway through which he must pass, and tried to fall on her knees before him. [10]
There now, you turned Metivier out by the scruff of his neck because he is a Frenchman and a scoundrel, but our ladies crawl after him on their knees. [2]
The crocuses and tulips were in bloom, and his friend, in a gardening apron, was on her knees, trowel in hand, assisting a hired man to set out marigolds and snapdragons. [9]
This was particularly true of Joshua, whose low, turned-down collar revealed a porous, brick-red, and extremely virile neck, and whose clothes were creased at the knees and across the back. [9]
Perhaps some lover trod the way With shaking knees and leaping heart, --And so it often runs astray With sinuous sweep or sudden start. [6]
The soldier's knees trembled while he held the light burden of his daughter's weight in his strong hands, and he sighed when he laid her down on the mat. [10]
Presently a man totters across the threshold, upheld with sore difficulty by the gate-keeper Endres inasmuch as his own knees quake; and he who comes home thus, as he might be drunken or grievously hurt, is none other than my brother Herdegen. [10]
Once the pilot took the pipe from his mouth, and leaned his hands on his knees as if about to speak. [11]
Among these folk, too, there are good men as well as bad," said he, and still speaking, he turned on his knees with a supple movement, got up, coughed, and went off to another part of the shed. [2]
There would be Tom and Alfred and Russell and Julia and little Myra with her grass-stained knees, faring forth to seek the adventures of a new day in the shady western yard. [9]
This other cushion to your knees. [11]
I must go to the Dauphin, though I go on my knees. [5]
His heart seemed to strain and burst, and just as he felt the end was come, he heard something crash on the murderer's skull, and the great creature fell with a gurgling sound, and lay like a parcel of loose bones across his knees. [11]
He was about to reply, but, at the instant, a reveller pushed him with a foot behind the knees so that they were sprung forward. [11]
I was forced to my knees, but there, mad, unpardonable youth, he made another furious lunge at me. [11]
I'm either up to my knees in grass or clay fighting Revolutionists, or I'm riding hard day and night till I'm round-backed like a wood-louse, to make up for all the good time I so badly lost in your little island. [11]
He had had to make his outer man fit to appear among Caesar's guests, for--as he boastfully explained--he himself had waded in blood, and in the court-yard of the Museum the red life-juice of the Alexandrians had reached above his horse's knees. [10]
Impulse urged her to kiss the sufferer, but as she bent over the mourner the copper dish slipped from her knees and fell rattling on the floor. [10]
When I got to it Jim was setting there with his head down between his knees, asleep, with his right arm hanging over the steering-oar. [5]
Slowly Oldring sank to his knees, and the hand, dragging at the gun, fell away. [13]
She went up to him and with a swift, flexible, youthful movement dropped on her knees. [2]
But I had to have it; so I went down on my hands and knees, with one slipper on and the other in my hand, and began to paw gently around and rake the floor, but with no success. [5]
If they were to crawl up here from the gate on their knees, I'd turn them out. [9]
I listened undisturbed to a piece of music that was fifteen minutes long--always expecting some tardy ticket-holders to come crowding past my knees, and being continuously and pleasantly disappointed--but when the last note was struck, here came the stream again. [5]
Uncle Tom, relegated to a corner, pretended to read his newspaper, while Honora flitted from Peter's knees to his, or sat cross-legged on the hearth-rug investigating a bottomless stocking. [9]
It was not till the governor's son had summoned up his courage and, sinking on his knees, was imploring her pardon, that she recovered some firmness and reminded him of the letter he had sent her. [10]
Where all the tides are drawn To greet their Sun and bathe their Idol's knees? [11]
One letter she thrust into her dress, but the other she laid aside, and her knees trembled under her as she rose and went into the entry and raised the latch and opened the door. [9]
The anchorite hastily threw away the stone, fell upon his knees, and soon found on the dry spot of ground under the stone, and in the farthermost nook of the retreat, a motionless human form. [10]
Pierre had watched this scene intently, his chin in his hands, his elbows on his knees. [11]
But at last there was a blessed flash, and there he was, on his hands and knees crawling, and not four feet from us. [5]
There was also there another of the same country, got up for the most dangerous Alpine climbing, conspicuous in red woolen stockings that came above his knees. [4]
Then all flung themselves upon their knees about him and sent up a chorus of ironical wailings, and mocking supplications, whilst they swabbed their eyes with their soiled and ragged sleeves and aprons-- "Be gracious to us, O sweet King! [5]
Then they slapped their knees, looked at Mr. Lincoln's face, which was perfectly sober, and laughed again, a little fainter. [9]
Then down on their knees to Him who sits high above the yellow haze fell the thousands in the Place d'Armes. [9]
They came to their knees on the ground, where they clutched and strained for a wild minute, Valmond desperately fighting to keep the huge bony fingers from his neck. [11]
People fell upon their knees in the street as the procession passed, and the Cure's face was bent here and there, his hand raised in blessing. [11]
The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. [5]
Far over under the trees a man sat upon the ground, his head upon his arms, and his arms upon his knees, in a misery unmeasurable. [11]
Once seated in the stern between Mr. Carvel's knees, what rapture when at last we shot out into the blue waters of the bay and I thought of the long summer of joy before me. [9]
He sank upon the side of the bed, and, placing his hands on his knees, he whispered a few broken words that none on earth was meant to hear. [11]
There stepped inside the Seigneur of Rozel, who made a lumbering obeisance, then got to his knees before the Queen. [11]
And it was the same during Paulina's prayers as during her instruction, prayers that often lasted more than hour, and which she had to attend, on her knees on Wednesday and Friday, and with hands uplifted on all the other days of the week. [10]
Now it was the salt-cellar, the plate, and the bread; then it was a Duke's Daughter--a noble soul as ever lived--with a tasting-knife, as beautiful as a rose; then another lady enters who glares at me, and gets to her knees as does the other. [11]
Then one of the runaways knocked down Papias, and she could bear no more; her senses deserted her, her knees failed under her, she lost consciousness, and with a dull groan she fell on the dusty pavement. [10]
Pierre glanced into the pit and saw that the factory lad was lying with his knees close up to his head and one shoulder higher than the other. [2]
She leaned against the pillar for support now, for her knees trembled under her. [10]
As they reached the outskirts of the village a sorry camel came with a sprawling gallop after them, and swaying and rolling above it was Yusef, the drunken ghaffir, his naboot of dom-wood across his knees. [11]
For many minutes the lord and his servants remained on their knees in silence, their eyes fixed on the sacred star, and listening to the pious chant of the priests. [10]
And perched upon the Hill of Zoom, My gentlemen beside, I saw the weft shake in the loom, The revel blazon wide, Until a thousand companies-- Serf-lords from out Thogeel Their broadswords brake across their knees, Good captives to her steel. [11]
Below these are the gally-hose of silk, velvet, satin, and damask, reaching below the knees. [4]
When she heard the Eletto's heavy step, she sprang up from her spinning-wheel in alarm, and the maid-servant, half roused from sleep, threw herself on her knees. [10]
This part of the day's work taxed our knees, I tell you. [5]
She had seen the crucifix, and believed that he prayed on his knees before it. [6]
Horror full on the crowd, who rose timidly from their knees. [10]
But Coolin of the Commissariat did not answer; his head was on his arms, and his arms were on his knees. [11]
Then we lit the candles, and crawled in on our hands and knees. [5]
The knees of the big man bent,--Foyle had not taken lessons of Ogami, the Jap, for nothing--they bent, and the cattleman squealed, so intense was the pain. [11]
She moved, and the ball rolled off her knees. [2]
It was Melissa, the artist's daughter, who had pulled it up, with bended knees and outstretched arms, panting for breath. [10]
But just as the artist had succeeded in twisting his opponent's wrist so effectually as to bring him to his knees, a loud voice of malignant triumph, just behind him, exclaimed: "Now we have snared our scoffer! [10]
What was it that we saw in Washington on his knees at Valley Forge, or blazing with wrath at the cowardice on Monmouth? [4]
Then they noticed that the Purple Mat on which they knelt was red under their knees, and a goodly light shone through the Tent, not of the day or night. [11]
The very notice that I was going to take him down to Egypt made him tremble in his knees so that he had to be carried from the platform. [7]
The first time that he came, roused by the grating noise as he sat below, he stumbled in the very centre of the cell, and fell upon his knees. [11]
She burst into tears and threw herself on the ground before her, clasping her knees and crying, in a voice broken with sobs: "Oh Klea! [10]
So, obeying a swift impulse, she threw herself on her knees by the old woman's side. [10]
There are generally surprises in store for the people they have had on their knees, and for others. [9]
Dust shrouded the sunset red of shaking rims; dust shrouded Tull as he fell on his knees with uplifted arms. [13]

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