kneel

polvistuminen

polvistua puhekieltä To stoop down and rest on the knee or knees.
(RQ:Chmbrs YngrSt)

When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.