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 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

Ziba said, I do obeisance; let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king.

From The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Samuel by Anonymous

They only conclude that you are not an asl, or born, saheb, and rejoice that at any rate you cannot take away their right to do obeisance to you. 

From Behind the Bungalow by Aitken, Edward Hamilton

Fire, air, and water bow down and do obeisance to man.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various