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obeisance
1. "He never displays proper obeisance," Elmore added, with only a flick of his eyes in Kelvin's direction
2. He probably felt like someone being reprimanded for not doing enough obeisance at temple
3. An affront to whatever god it is the Red Catholics pay obeisance to
4. He felt he had to cleanse himself with birch and water, pay obeisance to his God with an offer of personal sacrifice
5. The contrast with the Ministers of the Pantheon was sharp: they instilled fear, caution, piety, obeisance, and misery
6. Some did not even register her presence but others turned and went wide-eyed with surprise, some pointed and whispered, and some even made movements of obeisance, like bowing and nodding reverently
7. From the ecstatic excitement of discovery, to the enthusiasm of acceptance; from the reverence of insightful interpretation, to the worship of stable dogma; then the merely ritual observance of traditional declarations that eventually slide into only dutiful obeisance to form
8. and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the Earth, and did obeisance
9. 5 And it was so, that when any man came near to him to do him obeisance, he put out his hand, and took him, and kissed him
10. 16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king; And the king said, What would you?
11. 17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king; then the
12. A few days later, we arrived at their capital to accept the obeisance of their ruler
13. 9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, note, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me
14. 7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent
15. 7 And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and
16. the eleven stars made obeisance to me
17. So they usually head towards a cool hill station like Solan soon after marriage like a person pays obeisance to a shrine after his wishes are fulfilled by God
18. 'Devi!' The governor dropped to his knees before her, surprize and confusion somewhat spoiling the stateliness of his obeisance
19. “Vow to me your obeisance, Tobias Spencer,” he said gently
20. in obeisance to the sun
21. 16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king
22. Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door—
23. through the use of rewards for obeisance
24. they have enemies, but that if they pay a certain sort of obeisance and
25. We lose most of our waking hours in obeisance to it
26. They looked to Principal Klieglight with some amount of interest—what was he up to now?—but with no amount of obeisance
27. Principal Klieglight, of course, felt no comfort as the trolls paid him obeisance with their raised clubs
28. The two on the ground returned the obeisance
29. The tedium of using the 15 August speech to pay ritualistic obeisance to past achievements was forsaken
30. ive to realize me, and constantly offering obeisance to me, devotees
31. Arjun paid obeisance to the great God and spoke thus with folded
32. paying obeisance again and again he is not contented
33. I’ll press the ever-bolder peasantry into obeisance, and the honor of Family Kessant will rise above the mire wherein the King now wallows as a pig in slop
34. When the set ended, the clock struck midnight, and as the lights came up, I saw a few fans head towards Adrian’s dressing room, where I was sure my father waited to receive their blood and obeisance
35. Every Branga not working on the gate machinery was on his knees, paying obeisance
36. In belief of the good reception and honours that Your Excellency bestows on all sort of books, as prince so inclined to favor good arts, chiefly those who by their nobleness do not submit to the service and bribery of the vulgar, I have determined bringing to light The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha, in shelter of Your Excellency's glamorous name, to whom, with the obeisance I owe to such grandeur, I pray to receive it agreeably under his protection, so that in this shadow, though deprived of that precious ornament of elegance and erudition that clothe the works composed in the houses of those who know, it dares appear with assurance in the judgment of some who, trespassing the bounds of their own
37. The engagement given, he of the White Moon wheeled about, and making obeisance to the viceroy with a movement of the head, rode away into the city at a half gallop
38. As the duke and duchess mounted the stage Don Quixote and Sancho rose and made them a profound obeisance, which they returned by bowing their heads slightly
39. While they were talking, the musician, singer, and poet, who had sung the two stanzas given above came in, and making a profound obeisance to Don Quixote said, "Will your worship, sir knight, reckon and retain me in the number of your most faithful servants, for I have long been a great admirer of yours, as well because of your fame as because of your achievements?" "Will your worship tell me who you are," replied Don Quixote, "so that my courtesy may be answerable to your deserts?" The young man replied that he was the musician and songster of the night before
40. Altisidora then, pretending to wipe away her tears with a handkerchief, made an obeisance to her master and mistress and quitted the room
41. , made obeisance unperceived, mindful of lords deputies whose hands benignant had held of yore rich advowsons
42. O'Nolan, clad in shining armour, low bending made obeisance to the puissant and high and mighty chief of all Erin and did him to wit of that which had befallen, how that the grave elders of the most obedient city, second of the realm, had met them in the tholsel, and there, after due prayers to the gods who dwell in ether supernal, had taken solemn counsel whereby they might, if so be it might be, bring once more into honour among mortal men the winged speech of the seadivided Gael
43. This voice made every one bow before it, resembling in its effect the wind passing over a field of wheat, by its superior strength forcing every ear to yield obeisance
44. Never was there a more beautiful example of how the majesty of age and wisdom may comport with the obeisance and respect enjoined upon it, as from a lower social rank, and inferior order of endowment, towards a higher
45. It is also clear that the books by Voloshinov and Medvedev are explicitly Marxist in idiom, while those of Bakhtin are less so, though at the very least Bakhtin, in his own writing, both published and unpublished, makes obeisance towards Marxism, and, more strongly, appears to be influenced by it in some fundamental respects
46. He did not presume to remain more than a few moments after he had caught the monkey, and those moments were given to further deep and grateful obeisance to her in return for her indulgence
47. Tíkhonovna made her last low obeisance to God, and turned around and saluted in three directions
48. And the bishop made a low obeisance to the hermits
49. He arose and made a profound obeisance to the august company, which they one and all returned, though in such a queer variety of ways, that the author, albeit aware that every individual had the best of reasons for employing, under certain special circumstances, his or her particular manner of salute, could scarcely forbear smiling at the effect they all together produced in his own unpretending study
