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She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTNo law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFTHe would fear what he did not understand, and he would bow down and pay homage to what he feared.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDAnd with another bow the man from Paris drew himself erect, turned on his heel, and went jingling and creaking from the room.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINITo the invitation to precede him she readily responded, and, with a bow to the Seneschal, she began to walk across the apartment.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIAnd thou didst bow thyself to women: and by thy body thou wast brought under subjection.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSMr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUSThey were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGA primitive savage makes a bow and arrow in a day: it takes him a fortnight to make a bark canoe.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKHe bowed a trifle stiffly, and was surprised to have his bow returned with a graciousness that amounted almost to cordiality.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIWORDS RELATED TO BOW AND SCRAPE
- apple-polish
- beg
- beg for mercy
- beseech
- blandish
- bootlick
- bow and scrape
- brown-nose
- butter up
- cater to
- court
- cower
- crawl
- creep
- cringe
- crouch
- eat crow
- eat dirt
- eat humble pie
- fall all over
- fawn
- flatter
- humble oneself
- humor
- implore
- kiss one's feet
- kneel
- kowtow
- make much of
- make up to
- pamper
- play up to
- prostrate
- revere
- snivel
- soft-soap
- stoop
- suck up to
- truckle
- wheedle
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