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Knees in sentence

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'Sir, he is on both his knees in the mud,' was the turnkey's invariable answer; 'he is praying aloud, and repeating Litanies for your soul.''The impertinent fellow!' thought Julien.
She fell upon her knees.
A great number of priests escorted the coffin and, unknown to all, alone in her draped carriage, she carried upon her knees the head of the man whom she had so dearly loved.
The two policemen were sitting on a chest covered with a coloured blanket, rubbing their knees.
The people supported themselves with their hands on their knees and shook as if suffering a serious attack of coughing.
None of them stood properly upright, their backs were bowed, their knees bent, they stood like beggars on the street.
"Oh!" she immediately exclaimed, "you kissed me!"Hurriedly, and with her mouth open, she clambered up K.'s lap with her knees.
He now seemed more optimistic, he moved more freely and rocked back and forth on his knees.
What do you think he'd say if he learned his trial still hasn't begun, if you told him they haven't even rung the bell to announce the start of proceedings?'Alright Block, alright," said the lawyer, as at these words Block had begun to raise himself on his trembling knees and clearly wanted to plead for some explanation.
He looked down with his tired eyes, half blankly and half at Block, who slowly sank back down on his knees under this gaze.
He held it on his knees and drummed impatiently on it during the whole journey.
And we would all have to go down on our knees and grovel for it, while he would stand on the chair, and grunt, and want to know if he was to be kept there all the evening.
There he lay - the man who had wanted to know what time he should wake us - on his back, with his mouth wide open, and his knees stuck up.
Harris had the beefsteak pie between his knees, and was carving it, and George and I were waiting with our plates ready.
And on the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged Gregor's mother to let her go without delay.
The instant that Frances recovered her recollection, she perceived that she owed her life Lo Lawton, and throwing herself on her knees, she cried,-"Sarah!
On my knees I entreat you, as you will expect mercy yourself, when no human power can avail you, give him but a day."
"Birch!" shrieked Caesar, falling on his knees, the tears rolling in large drops over his shining face.
A close surtout was buttoned high in the throat of the stranger, and parting at his knees, showed breeches of buff, with military boots and spurs.
All that Dunwoodie had said of his power and disposition, all that he had himself promised her brother, and all the confidence that had been created by his dignified and paternal manner, rushed across the mind of Frances, who threw open the door of the hut, and falling at his feet, clasped his knees with her arms, as she cried,-"Save him - save him - save my brother; remember your promise, and save him!"
"There is none here but my God and you; and by His sacred name, I conjure you to remember your promise, and save my brother!"Harper gently raised her from her knees, and placed her on the stool, begging her at the same time to be composed, and to acquaint him with the nature of her errand.
"Come, captain," he said, coaxingly, a little huskiness creeping into his voice, and his knees beginning to shake with tremor, "end the joke; 'tis enough to make a laugh, and my arms begin to tire - I can't hold on much longer."
He knew that in her heart his aunt was on her knees to him, and he was morosely gratified by the consciousness of it.
He sat long with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands, meditating.
And the poor creature dropped on his knees before the stolid murderer, and clasped his appealing hands.
At last he got up cautiously, on his knees, and went searching among the grass and the flickering reflections flung by the campfire.
Tom went to the door and began to softly lift the latch; then he pressed gently and the door yielded a crack; he continued pushing cautiously, and quaking every time it creaked, till he judged he might squeeze through on his knees; so he put his head through and began, warily.
They went about poking sticks into the sand, and when they found a soft place they went down on their knees and dug with their hands.
He subtracted from it twenty or thirty dollars for himself and as much for Injun Joe, and passed the bag to the latter, who was on his knees in the corner, now, digging with his bowie-knife.
Tom got down on his knees and felt below, and then as far around the corner as he could reach with his hands conveniently; he made an effort to stretch yet a little farther to the right, and at that moment, not twenty yards away, a human hand, holding a candle, appeared from behind a rock!
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