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

He therefore sent another embassy, which was charged to summon the King of Japan to Peking, there to do obeisance to the Yuan Emperor.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

We were all simply bursting with pride over him, and the whole neighbourhood came up in batches to do obeisance.

From The Heart of Una Sackville by Tarrant, Peter

He addressed Cabades as "Lord," and was the first to do obeisance to him as king, and besought him to use him as a slave for any service whatever.

From History of the Wars, Books I and II The Persian War by Dewing, H. B.

And all these lords do obeisance to him, and bring him the revenue, with which they have to come into his presence.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte