do obeisance

Example Sentences

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"We have not come here to do obeisance to the lash nor to dance to Madame Pompadour's tune," said he.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Ismenias, being commanded to do obeisance to the king, dropped his ring before him upon the ground, and so, stooping to take it up, made a show of doing him homage.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

Then, as his lips with fury swelled, The lord of Raghu's line beheld A stream of Vánar chiefs outpoured To do obeisance to their lord.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Let me make haste to carve the pedestal that I may know how low to do obeisance to wisdom.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth

The kings pass by, and do obeisance one by one.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington