On bended knee.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

To buy the bended knee one is too weak to inflict?.    From Wordnik.com.  [IN THE JAWS OF KRONOS * Act I , scene 3] Reference

Beseeching them on bended knees to never make a bet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891] Reference

And on bended knee I listen to his low "Absolvo te.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The California Birthday Book] Reference

The object of these honors high, on lowly bended knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference

Their bows would be bended, their blades would be red.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference

We will go to him on our bended knees, and beg forgiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Feather] Reference

 I do, however; implore you on the proverbial bended knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Open Letters to Closed Caskets] Reference

And frankly feed thy bended eares with passing pleasant prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Asse] Reference

And the Queen, she is still served on bended knee, is she not?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Men have begged on bended knees before me for such prophecies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

But they are for the closet, and to be read on the bended knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference

The trees in their topmost branches bended to their very roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

My heart was wrung with a great desire to take the bended form unto myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Cuthbert's] Reference

All my pride is gone, you see, since I beg this of you upon my bended knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The hands first outstretched towards his bended head were those of Mr. Blake.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Cuthbert's] Reference

After Mass they repaired to the convent, and on bended knee kissed the priest's hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

"She would not tell her name, though the prince, on bended knee, begged her to do so.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Story Hour Readers — Book Three] Reference

They could only destroy me; and Ivan, sometimes, upon my bended knees I pray for death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Zara] Reference

"Let me but blow three blasts on my horn, and I will thank you on my bended knees for it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference

In the outstretch, for the second time, Aramis shot forward like the arrow from a bended bow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

B------, who was an angel; he had preached sermons in her salon and was listened to on bended knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Fear of losing a love has driven some to kill, others to get down on bended knee, and others to neglect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cindi Cook: Moving Beyond the Fear Response] Reference

"Listen!" said the native who on bended knees was doing the sacrilegious work, "Did you hear that grating noise?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War] Reference

"I only know," said the daughter, with dark emphasis, "I wouldn't drive with him now, if he went on his bended knees to ask me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bluebell A Novel] Reference

In standing, preparatory to the dive, the knees should be slightly bent, so that the spring comes from the bended knees and toes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swimming Scientifically Taught A Practical Manual for Young and Old] Reference

That jingoistic definition is carrying a price for the president, who must now go on bended knee to allies he so recently scorned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time For A New Patriotism?] Reference

After a thirty minute walk the road bended at the top of a hill where we could finally see the massive plaza swarming with people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musica en La Habana] Reference

The poor animal, on bended knees, with gaping mouth and outstretched neck, seems about to breathe its last in an agony of suffering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Philippa pleading with bended knee before Edward III. to spare the lives of the men of Calais, Catherine urging her suit before Henry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference

Such light was always in my mother's eyes when I kissed her good-morning, and I knew it had come to her as she knelt on bended knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

In one place the roofs of forty frame houses were packed in together just as you would place forty bended cards one on top of another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference

Pontus was seen, when suddenly a huge wave rose up before them, arched, like a steep rock; and at the sight they bowed with bended heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonautica] Reference

"Oh, Richard, oh my King, the world forsaketh thee," and the Bodyguards, overcome with emotion, one and all stood still with bended heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

Abreast of him we came and he bended low, but with such grace and so much dignity that it were as though he were a king receiving a vassal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference