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Cowles has knelt in their living rooms and stood on their porches.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2020

For more than a month, in fact, Thompson has knelt near the scorer’s table and looked away as his players attempted free throws.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2012

Massine, reported Rome's // Messaggero, has "knelt to the spirituality of his subject."

From Time Magazine Archive

With the rector by his side, he has knelt in prayer at Trinity Episcopal Church in Boston, and he claims to have visited 80 Protestant churches.

From Time Magazine Archive

In it we find the mysterious Ternary, before whose shrine humanity has knelt from the dawn of ages,—the primary matter, the medium, the product.

From The Alkahest by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott