"faldstool:a folding or small desk stool at which worshipers kneel to pray, especially one on which the British sovereign kneels at the time of coronation."
And, instead of the usual crowd of the reverents, all we have kneeling before her are two old pilgrims who have plodded miles on their bare and calloused feet.
Someone might say come to class and say " Oh, I could never do that, I could never hang from my knees on the trapeze, I could never do a backflip, I've never done one in my life."
Gerald knelt beside her, and Scarlett and Suellen took their accustomed places on the opposite side of the table, folding their voluminous petticoats in pads under their knees, so they would ache less from contact with the hard floor.
My primary mode of transportation was crawling around, either on my hands and knees, or later I learned to just crawl on my knees and sort of hobble around that way.
I saw treatment providers shaming and demeaning people, and literally having people get on their knees and say, 'I'm f-cked up. I'm f-cked up. I'm f-cked up, ' Cheryl says.