Note 250 — EL CAPITÁN VENENO[4]

de rodillas, on the knees: Spanish de occurs in adverbial expressions of time, place, and manner. English uses the corresponding of in expressions of time (of a morning, of a summer afternoon, all of a sudden); and we do hear such use as fell of a heap; but of old, of a truth, of a child (Mark 10:21), of necessity, etc., are growing quaint.