KNEEL

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kneel, past şi part. trec. kneeled sau knelt verb intranzitiv

(şi to kneel down) a îngenunchea, a se aşeza în genunchi;

(fig.) to kneel to smb. a îngenunchea înaintea / în faţa cuiva.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Alleyne had knelt down to his evening orisons, when there came a tap at his door, and Ford entered with a small lamp in his hand.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I knelt within half a yard of her.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Em'ly, with her arms around her neck, kneeled by her, looking up most earnestly into her face.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

As Buck watched them, Thornton knelt beside him and with rough, kindly hands searched for broken bones.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

The result was that he came straight away in a state bordering on frenzy, and has remained in the same state, kneeling at the end of her bed, until this morning death put an end to her sufferings.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There being nothing to eat, he could only have some play; and as his aunt would not let him tease his sick brother, he began to fasten himself upon her, as she knelt, in such a way that, busy as she was about Charles, she could not shake him off.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

In the early morning, just as day was breaking, a hand was laid upon my arm, and starting up, with all my nerves in a tingle and my hand feeling for a rifle, I gave a cry of joy as in the cold gray light I saw Lord John Roxton kneeling beside me.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Rosa kneeling at her feet, by turns caresses her, and quarrels with her; now fiercely telling her, I loved him better than you ever did!—now soothing her to sleep on her breast, like a sick child.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I knelt.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It was hours afore she knowed me right; and when she did, she kneeled down at my feet, and kiender said to me, as if it was her prayers, how it all come to be.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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