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

All these grandees do obeisance to the very earth as they catch sight of the face of the Padishah making his way through innumerable richly carved doors on his way to his dressing-chamber.

From Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul by Jókai, Mór

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.

Zounds! not a soul Will pass and do obeisance to the cap.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

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