on one's knees

Example Sentences

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Well," Rusk replied, "these are questions that one approaches on one's knees.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The piety most real to her," Fleda says in The Spoils of Poynton, "was to be on one's knees before one's high standard."

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

"That dish," he said once, "should be eaten on one's knees."

From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.

There is a way of balancing oneself on the edge of the seat and holding the paper on one's knees which makes for steadiness.

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

But there! one does not go down on one's knees, combustively, as it were, before a woman over fifty, plain in feature, thin, dejected, and ill-dressed.

From Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by Woolson, Constance Fenimore