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1  His comrade balanced his ebony coffee-cup on his knee.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
2  And there was a great uncertainty about his knee joints.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
3  He faltered, and then became motionless, save for his quivering knees.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
4  He seated himself gloomily on the ground with his flag between his knees.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
5  Farther up the line a man, standing behind a tree, had had his knee joint splintered by a ball.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
6  Lurching suddenly forward and dropping to his knees, he fired an angry shot at the persistent woods.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
7  At last, with a twisting movement, he got upon his hands and knees, and from thence, like a babe trying to walk, to his feet.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
8  It appeared that two light-footed soldiers had been teasing a huge, bearded man, causing him to spill coffee upon his blue knees.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
9  Looking down an aisle of the grove, the youth and his companion saw a jangling general and his staff almost ride upon a wounded man, who was crawling on his hands and knees.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
10  The youth, in his leapings, saw, as through a mist, a picture of four or five men stretched upon the ground or writhing upon their knees with bowed heads as if they had been stricken by bolts from the sky.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
11  Swift pictures of himself, apart, yet in himself, came to him--a blue desperate figure leading lurid charges with one knee forward and a broken blade high--a blue, determined figure standing before a crimson and steel assault, getting calmly killed on a high place before the eyes of all.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11