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

In the year 1307, Gessler, Vogt of the Emperor Albert of Hapsburg, set a hat on a pole, as symbol of imperial power, and ordered every one who passed by to do obeisance towards it.

From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Then the Emperor and chief mandarin arose, and the latter solemnly bade the officers to do obeisance to their Emperor.

From 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Hartshorne, Henry

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

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