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 after a few skirmishes they melted away, and Menelek was obliged to submit and do obeisance to John.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

But Spring in the country,—O season rightly named!—a goddess-queen glides through the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein springs up to meet her and do obeisance.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

But as the old prelate prepared to do obeisance before Meneptah, he was stayed with a gesture, and after a word of greeting was dismissed to his place.

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

S: He said: O Iblis! what prevented you that you should do obeisance to him whom I created with My two hands?

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf