When he had come to where the Prior sat, he knelt upon one knee.

The next moment Latimer, Tommy, and I were kneeling round the prostrate figure of the doctor.

He held a book in one hand, from which he would pluck leaves and cast them on the fire, and at every burnt-offering a wail of ecstasy would go up from the hooded women and kneeling men.

At distant intervals the shadow of some one entering softly through the door would obscure, for a moment, the band of light, and an aged crone, or a little boy, or some gentle presence that the listening confessor had known only by the voice for many years, would kneel a few moments beside his waiting ear, in prayer for blessing and in review of those slips and errors which prove us all akin.

"There were kneeling women to-day with babies in their arms.

Victor now knelt constantly on the back seat, his face in the fitful play of light and shadow uncannily resembling that of a hunted jungle cat.

70 And slow they move amid a world of fire!" He spoke,to Heaven his arms repentant spread, And kneeling bow'd his gem-incircled head.

When he entered the room, the Abbé de Solis and the children were kneeling round the mother's bed.

I gave him all the signs of encouragement I could think of, and he came nearer, kneeling down every ten or twelve steps.

This is Sunday, and the floor was full of kneeling worshippers, but that makes no difference.

"One Sunday morning I was in the Church of St. Claire, and, kneeling a little in front of me, I noticed a lady who did not seem to be paying the proper attention to her devotions.

"Yes, next day 'twas Sunday, and whiles I was kneeling in the church the powder, the gun, the old man and the moneyOh, Anna, what shall I do?" "My dear, I will tell you," began Anna, but

He knelt here a minute or two, then he passed back again to the lobby and ascended the staircase leading to the roof.

But by her side was kneeling her better angel, that hid his face with wings; that wept and pleaded for her; that prayed when she could not; that fought with heaven by tears for her deliverance; which also, as he raised his immortal countenance from his wings, I saw, by the glory in his eye, that he had won at last.

The Virgin is very fine and majestic; around her throne stand and kneel the guardian saints of Siena and the Franciscan Order; St. Francis, St. Antony of Padua, St. Bernardino, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Ansano, St. John B., St. Louis.

I kneel and kiss the stone, oh, mother, Where you have stood and blessed me with your eyes; Forgiveforgive me, motherfatherbrother For oh, he loves meand love sanctifies.

A man's figure was kneeling motionless at the foot of the bed.

At his feet, his face buried in his hands, kneeled the Dauphin.

He knelt in silent delight at this exhibition of the beauty of strength.

And while he kneeled there a door in the house was opened and closed softly.

The Persian, on his mountain-top, Kneeling doth wait until thy sun go up, God-like in his serenity.

(Kneeling downe by Ascanio.)

In the second picture, John and his wife are kneeling before the pope, "a grand old ecclesiastic, like one of Titian's pontiffs."

In some instances the locality is a temple, with an altar, before which kneels the Emperor, having laid upon it his sceptre and laurel crown: the sibyl points to the vision seen through a window above.

'I was praying to my God to protect me,' answered Henrich; and a tear rose to his eye, as he remembered how he had knelt every evening with his own beloved family; and thought how his absence, and their probable belief in his death, would sadden the act of worship that would that night be performed in his father's house. 'Do you pray to the Great Spirit?' asked Tisquantum.