Word: kneele
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...offer war where they should kneel for peace...
...tear up the trail at top speed, map in one hand, compass in the other. The trail goes dead north, then begins to curve east. Suddenly another trail appears, this one not marked on the map. We are tempted, but keep going. Another hundred meters and we pause, kneel down and take a compass bearing directly into the woods. Now we are sprinting, leaping over logs, crashing through small brush, legs and arms flailing. We try to pace a 200-meter leg but fail, losing the count at the bottom of a hill where we have plunged into unexpected muddy...
...presides over his well-trained household with an almost military authority. His insensitive tirades send everyone from his wife to a motley procession of household servants into teary blubbering. His penny-conscious "thrift" two sons into the less-than-respectable patent medicine business. Too proud to even kneel in church, he taxes the patience of the most accommodating clergyman...
...undoubtedly Charles Willson Peale. If Peale lacks something of Copley's consummate dexterity at catching a character in mid-gesture, he nevertheless seems more unpretentiously honest; perhaps, it might be said, more distinctively American. Unlike West and his London friends, who often seem to paint at the kneel before their distinguished subjects, Peale has always looked at his sitters...
...Prayers, set at Manhattan's La Côte Basque restaurant during lunchtime, Capote was out to make his readers throw up while his characters ate. But he is merely a sniggering Boy Scout compared with Jonathan Swift, who, in A Tale of a Tub, had a character kneel in the street to pray, then void his bladder in the eyes of the passersby leaning over to investigate...