do obeisance

Example Sentences

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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

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

Fire, air, and water bow down and do obeisance to man.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various

S: He said: O Iblis! what prevented you that you should do obeisance to him whom I created with My two hands?

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

Zounds! not a soul Will pass and do obeisance to the cap.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno