Word: knelt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...eyes were like clear-shining little blue stones, without fear, without self. He cried softly, for joy, and knelt and thanked them for coming to see him. He had seen but 16 other people in his 37 years there. He kept history in tiny scratches on a stone, beside a meticulous lunar calendar. What could he do for them?-he asked it like a child. Once he had been proud, he said, so he had come here to see God. He had not yet seen God, but now he knew he could not see him until he died...
...Italian carpenter who recently beat him on a foul (TIME, Dec. 9). In the clinches Stribling strained and sweated against a body 85 Ibs. heavier, 12½ in. taller than his own. In the sixth round he hit Carnera in the stomach. Carnera's vast legs buckled. He knelt a minute, then rose. In the seventh round little Stribling's punches angered Carnera. A strange expression contorted his wide face. The bell was ringing as he rushed at Stribling, swung at him three or four times, then hit him on the head and knocked him down. The referee...
Melodramatic, Martyred, Myopic and Monkeylike was Prosecution Lawyer John G. Carpenter. He held Widow Aderholt's hand, knelt before the jury, lay down on the floor and writhed (acting out Aderholt's death). He lost his boutonniere, got another, lost that too. He shouted at the jury: "Men. do your duty; do your duty, men, and in the name of God and justice render a verdict that will be emblazoned across the sky of America as an eternal sign that justice has been done." He asserted that the union headquarters in Gastonia had been "not a cross-section...
...papal audience,* refused to pass the wife and daughter of Panama's distinguished Foreign Minister J. Demóstenes Arosemena. Flushed and embarrassed these ladies hastily sought a modiste not far from the Vatican, bought gowns with longer skirts and sleeves, returned, were passed by the nuns, knelt and received the blessing of Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pontifex Maximus, Pope Pius...
...going Mexican populace which had been praying day and night for this issue, raised its voice in pious rejoicings. Archbishop Ruiz y Flores and his assistant, Bishop Pascual Diaz of Ta basco, hastened from Chapultepec Palace to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, five miles from the city, knelt in prayer for ten minutes. In his prayers Bishop Diaz, huge and dour, a full-blooded Jalisco Indian, had cause to be grateful to the Pope, who had signalled the peace by appointing him Archbishop of Mexico City, Primate of all Mexico. Correspondents in Mexico remembered that the Indian Archbishop...