It all happened through the Boy's producing a fish, and presenting it on bended knee at a respectful distance.

One day when they fell into an ambush and were struck with fast-flying arrows, they suddenly made by joining shields the testudo, and rested their left knees on the ground.

"I thought that Sawney wore bare knees on his dirty hills," said another.

There it stood in the evening sunshine, with a sunk head and a bent knee, as if its morning's work was still heavy upon it.

And they never had stirred from their places, Right under the maple-tree This old, old, old, old lady, And the boy with the lame little knee This dear, dear, dear old lady, And the boy who was half past three.

I. "I won't do itthere!" Miss ANGELINA VAVASOUR sat her little fat body down in a chair, slapped her little fat hands upon her little fat knees, swelled her little fat person until she looked like a big gooseberry just ready to burst, and then turned her little fat red face up to Mr. JOHN SMITH, who was standing before her.

Let us, then, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, and let us hope that, like as great salvation to all people came out of small beginnings of Bethlehem, so the work which we shall begin to-morrow shall be for the good of many nations.

The little one had fled to the old man's arms before he could rise, and was now held close to his aged and shaking knees, while he strove to comfort her and explain.

And for once he had experienced a curious sensation which cowardly men call "fear," but for which Piero had neither name nor tolerance, when all the people who had been worrying him led him in triumph to the altar and forced him down on his stubborn knees to take a solemn oath of allegiance, his great bronzed hand, all unaccustomed to restraint, resting meanwhile in the slippery silken clasp of the ducal secretary.

Many a prayer uplifted springs O'er desk, and din, and roar; Many an humble knee is bent When the rushed day is o'er; Far within, where God may be, All exists His Throne to raise; Every triumph of our power Becomes a form of Praise!

I. "I won't do itthere!" Miss ANGELINA VAVASOUR sat her little fat body down in a chair, slapped her little fat hands upon her little fat knees, swelled her little fat person until she looked like a big gooseberry just ready to burst, and then turned her little fat red face up to Mr. JOHN SMITH, who was standing before her.

It came up to her knees, rich, thick, soft, and redolent of blossom and ripeness.

Fairfax, hands clasped round knees, pipe out, absorbed, spurred him on when he lagged, and repictured the world he thought he had forgotten.

Legs of iron, with large, broad knees; plenty of flat bone below the knee, and pasterns neither too long nor too upright.

"Dost now ask me, child, since thou hear'st here I've been, Why my brow is so furrowed, my locks white and thin Why this faded eye cannot go by the line, Trace out little beauties, and sparkle like thine; Or why so unstable this tremulous knee, Who bore 'sixty years since,' such perils for thee?

A pretty thing to turn up with a swollen knee and a story about a Frenchman!' 'I never thought he'd ha' kicked,' said the Bustler.

For he was a thin little fellow, With a thin little twisted knee.

Boswell informed the people of Scotland in the Letter that he addressed to them in 1785 (p. 29), that 'now that Dr. Johnson is gone to a better world, he (Boswell) bowed the intellectual knee to Lord Thurlow.'

"Come, close thy old German almanack that thou readest with attention, though it appeared more than a hundred years ago, and the Kings it announces are all dead, and, lying on this antique carpet, my head leaned upon thy charitable knees, on the pale robe, oh! calm child, I will speak with thee for hours; there are no fields, and the streets are empty, I will speak to thee of our furniture.

She has a crippled knee, and both of her hands are peculiarly stiff in the finger joints, one more so than the other.

He laid his newspaper down on his stout knees and looked at De Chauxville over his gold eye-glasses.

He's not at all the man for me, Who sells a man for gain, Who bends the pliant servile knee, To Slavery's god of shame!

A new convert from the reformed to the ancient faith may be very strong in the arms, but he will always have weak legs and shaky knees.

Don't you never kick your legs out in the kitchen, or have you got stiff knees?' 'I can kick out as much as I like,' responded the young man, in rather an offended tone.

They were a representative group of British tradesmen, quiet, attentive, and rather solemn; but my attention was particularly attracted by a small man with a very large head and a shock of upstanding hair whom I had diagnosed, after a glance at his intelligent but truculent countenance and the shiny knees of his trousers, as the village cobbler.