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obsequious
1. He was uncaring of the loathsome burdens with which he tasked the apprentices, and he was shamelessly obsequious to his superiors
2. And please let"s never forget Schlesinger"s obsequious history of the Kennedy presidency, „One Thousand Days
3. ” The servant approached in an obsequious posture and with his submissive eyes downcast
4. But, he kept on wearing the Persian royal garb and he did execute Calisthenes, an hitherto obsequious historian (and nephew of Aristotle) who wouldn't bow to him
5. Had he not delivered her from the immense suffocation of Redchester? She was obsequious with gratitude
6. The need of looking after others was not the only thing that urged the chemist to such obsequious cordiality; there was a plan underneath it all
7. The doctor, flattered at this unexpected title, launched out into obsequious phrases
8. was too flexibly obsequious to dispute any point with them, and who
9. Madeline noticed she wasn’t quite as obsequious toward Perry now that she knew his son had been bullying her daughter
10. Standing at this table, I became conscious of the servile Pumblechook in a black cloak and several yards of hatband, who was alternately stuffing himself, and making obsequious movements to catch my attention
11. The obsequious waiters were in evening dress, the walls were covered with lofty plate-glass mirrors in carved and gilded frames, and at certain hours of the day and night an orchestra consisting of two violins and a harp discoursed selections of classic music
12. —Give you good den, my masters, said he with an obsequious bow
13. Sim turned obsequious, something he could obviously do quicker than changing his hat
14. Perkin was shrewd, beneath his obsequious manner
15. Deferential, but not obsequious
16. The Company's lightermen saluted him from afar; and the greatly envied Capataz de Cargadores advanced, amongst murmurs of recognition and obsequious greetings, towards the huge circus-like erection
17. ” His habit of addressing her formally was obsequious to whatever degree it wasn’t patronizing
18. She was kindly without being obsequious, willing to please without seeming slavish, and she saw the Humour in her Fate as well as the undeserv’d Woe
19. But the Vigour is at best a passing Fancy, o’erwhelm’d quite soon by the Pains of Travail; for no sooner had I determin’d upon the Names for my Star-cross’d Lovers—Clotilda and Philidore—and penn’d an appropriately obsequious Epistle Dedicatory (with Blanks for the Name of whiche’er Noble Lord should be most worth my Flatteries when the Romance was done), than the Pains of Travail became strong indeed, and I dropp’d my Quill to the Paper (where the Inkblot oddly form’d the Profile of a curious Horn’d Creature) and I held my Belly and pray’d to the Goddess above for my own Life and the Life of my Child
20. Now that I had given her Notice, she immediately became obsequious and slavish
21. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff was afflicted, or blessed, with something of his own obsequious suavity
22. Her manner was obsequious even though she had the face of an ancient granite statue and the proportions of a good oak gate
23. No car has ever had such obsequious treatment as did Rocinante as we moved slowly on
24. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board
25. Unlike the Danes, these Orientals do not demand the obsequious homage of lowered top-sails from the endless procession of ships before the wind, which for centuries past, by night and by day, have passed between the islands of Sumatra and Java, freighted with the costliest cargoes of the east
26. People who are fond of stuffy tidiness and, still more, of obsequious deference in their landladies are to be suspected
27. He was a man of the old school, as meek as a hen, reared from infancy to obsequious servility, and at the same time a good-natured and even honourable man
28. Hm, dash it, it really is a general! There was no monument on the grave from which the obsequious voice came, there was only a tombstone
29. Lebeziatnikov (for the obsequious lower court councillor whom I detested and who lay beside General Pervoyedov was called, it appears, Lebeziatnikov) became much excited, and surprised that they were all waking up so soon this time
30. His expression was severe and uncompromising, especially with the peasants of Mokroe, but he had the power of assuming the most obsequious countenance, when he had an inkling that it was to his interest
31. In the crowd of young ladies and rather vulgar young men who made up Yulia Mihailovna's usual retinue, and among whom this vulgarity was taken for sprightliness, and cheap cynicism for wit, I noticed two or three new faces: a very obsequious Pole who was on a visit in the town; a German doctor, a sturdy old fellow who kept loudly laughing with great zest at his own wit; and lastly, a very young princeling from Petersburg like an automaton figure, with the deportment of a state dignitary and a fearfully high collar
32. Blaisdell whispered to the obsequious interne who met them:
33. “It’s many a day since I’ve seen your honor at The Jolly Grig,” murmured Marmaduke, with a certain obsequious familiarity that he reserved for old and well-known patrons
34. But it is said that the act was, in truth, a proffer to the two belligerents, of commerce to the obsequious nation, prohibition of commerce to the contumacious nation
