knelt
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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They’d just gotten used to having a king again, and now he’s the second coming of the King Who Knelt, which didn’t play well in the North the first time it happened.
From The Verge • Aug. 28, 2017
This is the hour they then foretold— When earth, inebriate with crime, Laughed right to scorn, and guilt, grown bold, Knelt worshiping at mammon's shrine.
From Poems by Eddy, Mary Baker
Half smilingly, our hearts delay, Half mournfully forego The blue fantastic twisted day When faithful Konojo, For small white Lily Hasu-ko Knelt in the Butsudan, And her tomb opened to bestrow Lilies thro' old Japan.
From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred
And day by day their Captain grey Knelt on the rotting poop to pray: And yet despite ten thousand prayers They saw no ship that was not theirs.
From Forty-Two Poems by Flecker, James Elroy
Then I, as was meet, Knelt down to the God of my fathers, and rose on my feet,15 And ran o'er the sand burnt to powder.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra
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