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

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

To the Governor-General, however, the Sultan must do obeisance.

From From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India by Keyser, Arthur Louis

We were all simply bursting with pride over him, and the whole neighbourhood came up in batches to do obeisance.

From The Heart of Una Sackville by Tarrant, Peter

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