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
Still, one doesn’t care to get down on one’s knees to somebody, just because that somebody hates herself.
From Marjorie Dean, High School Junior by Lester, Pauline
Their capacity for loving us in spite of what we are is a thing to go down on one's knees for.
From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud
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
