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

One of these gifts was a horse taught to do obeisance.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

But Spring in the country,—O season rightly named!—a goddess-queen glides through the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein springs up to meet her and do obeisance.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

I sometimes feel inclined to kneel down and, do obeisance before the dresses in the Bond Street shops.

From The Daughters of a Genius by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Let me make haste to carve the pedestal that I may know how low to do obeisance to wisdom.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth