kneeling posture

But the kneeling posture of the man was strange.

A strong hand on her shoulder slammed her to the floor in a kneeling posture.

The girl was out of bed; she looked up from a kneeling posture, possibly one of prayer.

His kneeling posture made him appear foolish, but Will knew the old man was anything but that.

Its beard and kneeling posture distinguish it from standard moai.

On the other end of the scale were the kneeling postures, those of Submission.

The girl was resting against it in a kneeling posture, with her forehead against the wood.

She muttered something in Northern, cursing the failed fire, then lurched up from her kneeling posture.

She couldn't stand up inside the pipe; couldn't even get up to a kneeling posture.

Painfully, Haramis arose from the kneeling posture prescribed for her mental exercise.

Cliff Davenport adopted a kneeling posture, a look of fear and helplessness on his lean face.

Silner rose before replying, and Slant followed his example, since he found the kneeling posture uncomfortable.

The priest quietly resumed his kneeling posture.

In the next instant, he flung his body upward to a kneeling posture, looking at Rearden with a smile of incredulous pleasure.

Seiza (a kneeling posture using a bench or zafu)

Yabu's eyes dropped to Omi's sword hand, noting his alertly defensive kneeling posture.

The former belongs the rugged landscape, while typically Italian is the kneeling posture of St. Jerome.

The two cops fell into the kneeling posture almost simultaneously, guns out, gripped in right hands, left hands holding right wrists.

Isis took advantage of Roberta's kneeling posture to drop lightly onto the carpet between Roberta and Noon.

As the name Variable indicates, it was of primary importance for Opsvik that the kneeling posture should be one of many different sitting postures.

He writes: "The kneeling posture to which the Pardoner summons the pilgrims would place their noses right before his deficient crotch."

In acrobatical flag throwing, the thrower uses both hands to move the flag in a sitting, laying, or kneeling posture.

At length He bowed his head respectfully, kissed the Crucifix thrice, and quitted his kneeling posture.

Since then Auster had barely leaned forward, now and then, from his folded-up kneeling posture, stirring a hand languidly as if signaling some unseen watcher.

Very slowly, very reluctantly, he relaxed his position; he rose from his kneeling posture on the Prince's breast-- he left him and stood upright.