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
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 Abdullah Yusuf Ali
When folk like these come down the road, I respectfully do obeisance to them.
From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick
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 Duarte Barbosa
They shape their souls beforehand to this necessary condition; and, despairing of remaining free, they already do obeisance in their hearts to the master who is soon to appear.
From Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Henry Reeves
