Sentence examples for one kneeling from inspiring English sources
All the women balanced earthenware pots on their heads and then piled them on the head of one kneeling prospective bride.
The head of one kneeling figure, talking animatedly, foams with his red brain matter.
Cohen sang his standards and more, often beginning each one kneeling, his own homage to his deeply felt work, his signature fedora rakishly tilted at first to totally obscure his expression and then after intermission, to reveal the craggy, wise troubadour.
The points of contact between the two dancers, one standing, one kneeling, were connections of mutual support that flickered between physical and emotional.
At one point, one knelt in front of the gleaming coffin topped with white roses.
When one kneels to converse with Noah, you half expect to see Megan Fox bending over an ox cart while Shia LaBeouf utters biblical epithets.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Could this stem from the life experience of praying "Now I lay me down to sleep," and later "Our Father who art in heaven," while one was mentally on one's knees before a male God? Certainly the male priest (or bishop) before whom one knelt in church to receive Holy Communion was a surrogate figure of that same bearded and patriarchal God.
Furthermore, "Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, / Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, / Not one is respectable or unhappy over the earth".
It turned out that his neck had been seriously damaged in a car accident a few weeks before and that he had every right to cry out when five officers wrestled him to the ground and sat on him with one officer kneeling on his neck.
