3952 examples of kneel in sentences

I made way for him to kneel by his wife's side.

Kneel down and strike a match, keeping between the light and the window.

They use it in two ways: either they approach some fort to assault it, often even enabling men to scale the very walls, or where sometimes they are surrounded by archers they all bend together,even the horses being taught to kneel and recline,and thereby cause the foe to think that they are exhausted; then, when the others draw near, they suddenly rise, to the latter's great alarm.

Maybe we shall kneel and kiss their feet, With grateful tears, when we shall meet Their unveiled faces, pure and sweet, Their eyes' deep tenderness.

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.

Can we kneel with tears and bid the strong sun move Away from the sky?

And secluded convent chapels, Where veiled nuns kneel to pray, With a dim light streaming o'er them Through arches quaint and gray, While down the long and winding aisles Low music dies away.

He was, therefore, directed to kneel down before him, which he did with the greatest composure; and the aged Chief then drew his long sharp knife, and, with a steady hand and unflinching eye, plunged it into the heart of the criminal.

At the top of each chair back there is a thick piece of wood on which is plastered a printed paper, requesting the worshippers to kneel during prayers, and to join in the responses.

The savage man must first of all learn to kneel, to venerate, to obey; after that he can be civilized.

'Tis strange, he will not let me sleep, but dives Into my fancy, and there gives me shapes That kneel, and do me service, cry me King:

Sometimes he would kneel by the bedside and bury his face and weep like a little child.

"'Nat,' said he, in a low tone, 'I never knelt to any human being before: I didn't kneel to Dora when I asked her to give herself to me, for I was sure I could so give myself to her as to make her happy; but it is to you, after all, that I owe it that she is mine; I never can forget it for an hour, and I never can repay youno, not in my whole life-time, nor with all my fortune.'

Kneel on the floor with your hands on the bed.

Let us both kneel there to-night and ask for grace to help in this your time of need.

We do all, therefore,Hindu, Egyptian, Greek, or Saxon,claim kinship both with the earth and the heavens: with the sense of sorrow we kneel upon the earth, with the sense of hope we look into the heavens.

and was this The payment I deserved for such a sin? To hang here on my cross, and look at him Until we kneel before Thy throne in heaven!

" "And did you kneel on his breast?"

She knelt, as she had been taught to kneel from her childhood, and tried to pray.

"Stop," said he, "let us first kneel and return thanks for their growth."

She did so in company with her daughter, just as the party were about to kneel down to prayer, and they were consequently invited in.

Every impression is a shrine, where you may kneel to God.'

"'When you have impressions of sight, noise, and smell, and these impressions have no shrine where one may kneel to God, it is a sure sign that you have forgotten Him, that you are dwelling in the courts of idols.'

Here and there are heaps of stones, around some of which appear great numbers of people, running with as much speed as possible; around others crowds of worshippers kneel with bare legs and feet as an indispensable part of the penance.

Her father, Mayhew, and I, kneel round her bed, and the minister in supplicating tones, where nature does not interpose, dedicates the virgin to His favour whose love she has applied so well.

3952 examples of  kneel  in sentences