Word: knelt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Four child-Archdukes?Robert, Felix, Karl and Rudolph?donned small white surplices, swung fuming censers, and chanted a quavering treble litany, while there knelt in prayer before them the child-Archduchesses Charlotte and Elizabeth and the mother of these six children, Zita, onetime Austro-Hungarian Empress and Queen...
George Washington started the idea of Washington Cathedral. He believed in God, but he was never known to pray in church, although he attended services at times. He never knelt when there were prayers, nor did he ever take communion...
...Unknown Soldier, and parading to "The Star Spangled Banner," "Piave" and "Giovinezza." Ascending the snowy marble steps of the Apostolic Palace, the Legionaries, all dressed in their evening clothes, were met by smiling Swiss Guards whom Vatican etiquette forbade to salute. The Pope came forth in white. The Legionaries knelt. Commander Savage and a few others were presented. The Pope examined the Legion flag, made a speech...
...weeks I've been refusing good drinks." "How often?" asked incredulous newsgatherers. "Continuously." "Why?" "Hell," said the Mayor of New York, "you spoil it by asking why. I was sick!" Later the Mayor of New York said: "The greatest thrill of my life was when I knelt at the feet of the temporal head of the church in Rome...
...beloved New Mexico, Jean Marie Latour.* She draws him with esthetic reverence, an immaculate conception of a missionary in buckskins who, lost and athirst in the desert, still retained elegance, distinction and "a kind of courtesy toward himself, toward his beasts, toward the juniper tree before which he knelt and the God whom he was addressing...