She knelt down and pressed his hands to her lips.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I usually had to kneel down and contrive to heave the load, which was well strapped together, upon my back, and then rise up and start off with it up the hills and down the vales, sometimes through thickets,—the rough points sticking into the skin, and tearing the clothes, so that, at the end of the week, I had hardly a whole shirt to my back.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Kindred , derivation, acc.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Then the Brahmin knelt down, and addressing the Sun, Cried, "Noblest of living things, you are the one!"
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Mi iris en la salonon kaj donis al la avino bukedon da floroj.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Wear white buckskin gloves if you can afford them; otherwise gray or khaki doeskin, and leave them in your overcoat pocket.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

kumaw a awkward in the way one does s.t. Kumaw kaáyu siyang mugansilyu kay dì anad, She crochets awkwardly because she is not used to it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She kneeled down and embraced his feet.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

He brought his fist down on the bureau with such force that Evelyn's knick-knacks danced again.
— from Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver

And while they were wondering if it would be possible to slip over to the corrals for a closer look at the horses, Mr. Nelson sauntered up to them, with handsome Andy Rawlinson keeping diffidently a little in the rear.
— from The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle; Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run by Laura Lee Hope

If the keeper detects anything of this kind he allows it to stay undisturbed, but sets a watch, and so surprises the owner of the treasure.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies

The compilation of their sayings and doings to form a book which as years went on was venerated more and more, and the founding of Oomritsur, chief of their holy places, were the principal things that transpired in the history of the Khalsa during a century and a half, save that the brotherhood was greatly strengthened by Moslem persecution, occurring at intervals.
— from Atmâ A Romance by C. A. (Caroline Augusta) Frazer

But fashionable society produces few persons, who, like the ex-courtier of King David, assign their fourscore years as a reason for no longer "delighting in the voice of singing men and singing women."
— from Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More