do obeisance

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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)

But Ismenias, being commanded to do obeisance to the king, dropped his ring before him upon the ground, and so, stooping to take it up, made a show of doing him homage.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

And when he came before the emperor's seat, they stripped off the purple garment, and compelled him to fall prone on the ground and do obeisance to the Emperor Justinian.

From History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War by Dewing, H. B.

Paracelsus demands he should do obeisance to him, the Knower.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward