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

Their capacity for loving us in spite of what we are is a thing to go down on one's knees for.

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud

Adj. requesting &c. v.; precatory†; suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory; postulant; obsecratory†. importunate, clamorous, urgent; cap in hand; on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

I asked what was meant and was then told the whole story, and that it was necessary to mount this staircase on one's knees or not at all.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E

I knew the monarchy was rotten—rotten to the very core; but I said, Better to die in the street � cheval than behind the arras on one's knees.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James