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
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
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
There's something in Shakespeare about going down on one's knees and thanking Heaven fasting for a good man's love.
From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Onions, Mrs. Oliver
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
