Knees in example sentence

Once or twice he tried to scale the wall, but having no other legs this time, than those with which Nature had furnished him, the only effect of his struggles was to inflict a variety of very unpleasant gratings on his knees and shins, and to throw him into a state of the most profuse perspiration.

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When you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises; when you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you want to save are the ones standing on your cape; when your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees in disappointment.

My knees still buckle every time I get on a stage.

And it's very, very simple because all that happens is that the puppeteer breathes with his knees.

He looks, it's a dog, he drops to his knees.

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