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

Help me, my king; one dropped on one's knees in the market-place: I am being injured overmuch!

From The Wind Bloweth by Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald

There is a way of balancing oneself on the edge of the seat and holding the paper on one's knees which makes for steadiness.

From What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

—Monsieur le Curé, one only confesses on one's knees.

From The Grip of Desire by France, Hector

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