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
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
Knelt and prayed until he won me— Looks he coldly upon me?
From Poems by Morris, George Pope
And in the adoring hush that fell, I, from the form set inly free, Knelt at my heart's most holy well And worshipped mine own mystery.
From Etain the Beloved and Other Poems by Cousins, James Henry
Dead I kissed him as he lay, Knelt by him and tried to pray; Left him lying there at rest, Crucifix upon his breast.
From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)
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