Which preposition to use with kneeling
Had she been making idols of these things in her heart? Miss Diana knelt beside the couch, comfortable as only old-fashioned couches know how to be.
Thankfully the chief kneeled at Mary's feet.
I kneeled before him, with my strength gone, my right arm crippled.
For a while he stood thus, gazing towards where he knew his father yet knelt in prayer for him, then turned he slowly, and went his appointed way.
[Puts down his Hat of Money, and each of em take a Box and Dice, and kneel on the Stage, the rest come about 'em.
I made way for him to kneel by his wife's side.
O gracious Wife, leave me not in despair; [Kneels to her and holds her.]
In her hand she held the rat trap with the dangling rat. "Gee, where did you get it?" cried Chet, jumping to his feet from where he had been kneeling with Billie, examining the shabby trunk.
" Wanderers and fugitives across their kingdom, after kneeling for the last time beside the tomb of their children at Dreux, and asking the hospitality of some friends who were still faithful, and without a single attempt to recover the crown they had lost, King Louis Philippe and Queen Marie-Amélie at last reached the seacoast, and set sail toward England, that safe and well-known refuge of unfortunate princes.
She spoke of Mr. Pendennis as if he had been the Pope of Rome on his throne, and she a cardinal kneeling at his feet, and giving him incense.
I looked up, and you were kneeling over me.
Perhaps, the example which is best known to missionary priests, is the example of the Cure d'Ars, who in the early days of his priestly life always said his Breviary kneeling in the sanctuary.
"Thou hast seen my daughterthou hast news of her?" "Ay, yestere'en, at the Ave Maria, I spoke with her, in Santa Maria dell' Orto, coming upon her kneeling before the great picture of Jacopo Robustishe, saint enough already to wear a gloria and looking as if the heart of her were worn away from grief!
But even as he was trying to pierce this, a match flamed up, and he discovered his chum kneeling on a pile of dirt, holding up his improvised torch as though curious to look around.
Then he arose and went apart and, kneeling among the shadows, prayed long and fervently.
All about this tower a great camp lay, set well out of bow-shot, and 'twixt camp and tower were many men whose armour flashed, rank on rank, and archers who, kneeling behind mantlets, shot amain at battlement and loophole.
Some time afterwards the nurse returned and started when she saw the white figure kneeling by the bed.
When he entered the room, the Abbé de Solis and the children were kneeling round the mother's bed.
The dumbness of unutterable astonishment fell on the whole party at these words; but in another second, rallying from the shock; they knelt around the seemingly lifeless woman, trying to arouse her.
" When Flack reached the door of the library he saw his chief kneeling beside the prostrate body of a dead man.
The beast was kneeling under the shelter of the rocks with its waterskin and bag of doora slung over its shoulders, and its forelegs tethered Arab fashion with a rope around the knees.
Juanita glanced back again and saw Mon kneeling between the two motionless upright men, who were grave while he smiled ... and smiled.
And turning away, Beltane left him lying there with Beda the Jester kneeling above him.
Coming into the presence of a sound-hearted American democrat, who never had dreamed of one mortal kneeling to another, Ivan throws himself on his knees, presses his forehead to the minister's feet, fawns like a tamed beast, and refuses to move until the minister relieves himself from this nightmare of servility by a full pardon.
A few less fragmentary pieces may be found, e.g., in the north window, Judas giving the traitor's kiss, in the north clearstory the arms of Trenton and Stafford, mentioned and figured by Dugdale, in the south, the figure of a man in a red gown kneeling with a scroll inscribed "deo gracias" and over his head "groc(er) de london"doubtless a donor.