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knelt

[ nelt ]

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of kneel.


knelt

/ nɛlt /

verb

  1. See kneel
    a past tense and past participle of kneel


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Women in the founding Christian movement were treated equally, and the poor knelt beside the rich.

Her tender face bent in compassion over a marble form so exquisitely pure that I knelt and signed myself.

He knelt beside Glover just as he once had by that injured boy back in Brooklyn.

Outside the courthouse, supporters of Martin's family jeered, wept, or knelt in prayer as the verdict came.

Harry also knelt on one knee and layed poppies at the grave of the unknown soldier as the last post was played.

What would a man think if his children knelt and begged for his love or for their daily bread?

A horrible foreboding gripped me, and I quickly knelt down and raised the dog's head.

He was flung down heavily, and pinned prone in a corner by one of those bullies who knelt on his spine.

Above the altar before which the priest knelt was an immense carving in imitation of an uprooted tree.

"Follow presently," was his parting command to the man who still knelt upon Rabecque, and with that he vanished too.

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