Mr Bloom stood behind near the font and, when all had knelt, dropped carefully his unfolded newspaper from his pocket and knelt his right knee upon it.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The Abbāside Khalifs transferred the seat of government from Damascus to Baghdad, and held the Khalifate until its destruction by the Mongols in 1258.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

The sexton flung the quilt off with his arms and legs, knelt up in bed, and looked blankly at his wife.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

At every verse of the charms a knot untied itself, and the prophet experienced a certain relief.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

What he seeks to attain we do not know—probably supreme power for himself, of a kind unique in history.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

You and I have both fallen, and neither of us will ever rise up again; and even if my letter were eloquent, terrible, and passionate, it would still seem like beating on the lid of a coffin: however one knocks upon it, one will not wake up the dead!
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Certain reserves and appearances which are usually kept up in other tribes, are here completely abandoned.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

[636] "Ueber die Koriaken u. ihnen nahe verwandten Tchouktchen," in Bul.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

We found out he had lived in the bush, existing on a wild water-melon, called shama or kongive, and had kept us in sight as we travelled.
— from Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in South Africa: Sport and Travel in South Africa by Andrew A. Anderson

For ten or fifteen minutes the search was kept up in the vicinity of where the boat had landed.
— from The Heroes of the School; or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin by Allen Chapman

The general expense of a plant, for the sake of convenience as well as information, is kept usually in considerable detail, different ledger accounts being opened to carry the various subdivisions of expense.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

He used rather to make fun of me, tease me you know, but he was kind under it all.
— from The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance by Harry Johnston

And now, if we are provincial, it is our own fault, and if we are hateful and odious and circumscribed and narrow and peevish and limited in the light we get from the known universe, it is our own fault.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Closer and closer inched the killer until its great, red mouth appeared like the fire box of a huge boiler.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various

At length they came to a resolution of giving us up to the Turks, assuring them that we were masters of a vast treasure, in hope that after they had inflicted all kinds of tortures on us, to make us confess where we had hid our gold, or what we had done with it, they would at length kill us in rage for the disappointment.
— from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Jerónimo Lobo