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

If only she could have met some one deserving of her love whom she might place at the crossings of all earthly and heavenly roads, and to whom she might do obeisance!

From The Created Legend by Cournos, John

So he kissed the hand reverently, and said: "And these my lords, may they enter and do obeisance and kiss hands, my Lady?"

From Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by Morris, William

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

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