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Knees in sentence

605 examples of Knees in a sentence

He threw himself on his knees by her bed.
Felicite knelt down before the crucifix, and the druggist himself slightly bent his knees, while Monsieur Canivet looked out vaguely at the Place.
Charles was on the other side, on his knees, his arms outstretched towards Emma.
The sheet sunk in from her breast to her knees, and then rose at the tips of her toes, and it seemed to Charles that infinite masses, an enormous load, were weighing upon her.
He swung it gravely, then handed it to Charles, who sank to his knees in the earth and threw in handfuls of it, crying, "Adieu!"
On the grave between the pine-trees a child was on his knees weeping, and his heart, rent by sobs, was beating in the shadow beneath the load of an immense regret, sweeter than the moon and fathomless as the night.
As he opened the door of his room, he trembled so much that his knees gave way beneath him, and he was obliged to lean against the wall.
His only answer to her reproaches was to fling himself at her feet, clasping her round the knees.
Outside the door were gathered on their knees four and twenty girls, belonging to the most distinguished families of Verrieres.
Before opening the door, the Bishop sank on his knees in the midst of these girls, who were all pretty.
The guards themselves remained outside, on their knees, presenting their arms.
'Never forget, young Christian women, that you have seen one of the great Kings of the earth upon his knees before the servants of this all-powerful and terrible God.
'No, listen to me,' cried his wife on her knees before him, seeking to hold him back.
'Romantic stuff,' he exclaimed, thrusting away his wife who sought to embrace his knees.
Madame de Renal sank on her knees, half unconscious, with a convulsive movement thrusting away Julien, who was coming to her assistance.
I believe you!' she went on, having fallen once more on her knees; 'O my only friend, why are not you Stanislas's father?
I am wandering ...Well, you understand what you must do; be gentle, polite, never contemptuous with these vulgar personages, I implore you on my knees: they are to be the arbiters of our destiny.
The mother wept outright, while Julien, who had taken Stanislas on his knees, explained to him that he must not use the word _dupe_, which, employed in that sense, was a servant's expression.
He helped Madame Derville to prop that charming head against the back of a straw chair; he was on his knees.
I appoint you tutor in the New and Old Testaments.'Julien, in a transport of gratitude, quite thought of falling on his knees and thanking God; but he yielded to a more genuine impulse.
He fell on his knees: the Bishop bestowed a kind smile upon him as he passed through the room.
'This fellow was not born on his knees,' she thought, 'like that old abbe.
'Sainclair comes here to get into the Academy,' said Norbert; 'look how he is bowing to Baron L ----, Croisenois.''He would be less servile if he went on his knees,' put in M. de Luz.
His pallor was a merit in the eyes of the young seminarists his companions; he found them much less irritating, much less inclined to fall upon their knees before a coin of the realm than those at Besancon; they, for their part, supposed him to be consumptive.
One day Julien had caught him on his knees before the Marquise de La Mole; he was begging her for a tobacco licence for a nephew in the country.
'Punish me for my atrocious pride,' she said to him, squeezing him in her arms as though to strangle him; 'you are my master, I am your slave, I must beg pardon upon my knees for having sought to rebel.'
Dare I say that on entering his own room Julien threw himself on his knees and covered with kisses the love letters given him by Prince Korasoff?
I implore you on my knees, O my father, come and attend our wedding, in M. Pirard's church, next Thursday.
She is not dead!' exclaimed Julien; and he fell on his knees, weeping hot tears.
To fling herself on her knees to crave pardon for Julien, in front of the King's carriage as it came by at a gallop, to attract the royal attention, at the risk of a thousand deaths, was one of the tamest fancies of this exalted and courageous imagination.
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