187 collocations for bowing

" "Then," said the Gospeler, bowing his head and speaking slowly, "I suppose he must go to the Other Church.

To that Caesar let us never bow the knee.

"I shall be very pleased to give Mr. Crewe any assistance he wants," said Inspector Chippenfield, bowing stiffly.

" Orme and I bowed our assent, and Washington thanked him with a trembling voice.

And Beltane, knowing what sound this was, clenched his hands and bowed his face upon his knees.

" "I sometimes think that it is no great thing after all to be human;" the Doctor continued, bowing his acknowledgments for my protecting his right to the floor.

They met the tyrant's brandished steel, The lions gory mane; They bowed their necks the death to feel: Who follows in their train?

"He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man.

She "fell at His feet," says St Markdoubtless bowing her forehead to the ground, in the fashion of those landsan honour which was paid, I believe, only to persons who were royal or divine.

o' her." Abe could only bow his thanks as he put his gift down on the table and took the prominent place assigned to him.

The moment the King perceived the high priest, he advanced toward him with an air of the most profound respect, bowed his body, adored the august name upon his front, and saluted him who wore it with religious veneration.

" The stranger bowed a silent acquiescence, while Captain Wharton placed himself in a window recess, and drew the curtain before him in such a manner as to conceal most of his person from observation.

Now the groves of Newby Park re-appear with their "sylvan majesty," creating unutterable sympathies; for the wind that bows the surrounding branches moves me to weep for that romantic spirit whose ashes moulder on the shores of India, where "When the sun's noon-glory crests the wave, He shines, without a shadow on his grave.

They were bitter thoughts enough that filled my heart as I trudged along the rough roads, fettered by my wrist to the long bar; and seeing Elzevir's white hair and bowed shoulders trudging in front of me, remembered when that head had scarce a grizzle on it, and the back was straight as the massive stubborn pillars in old Moonfleet church.

In reading the expression of his feelings in the prospect of the former of these engagements, it is instructive to remark, that the same sense of entire dependence which had bowed his spirit when required in early life to make the first offering of this kind, was present with him when now called upon to go forth in his Master's name for the twentieth time, and when age and experience had given him reverence among men.

"Charl," he said with an effort, and his delighted nurse hastened to the bedside and bowed his best ear.

Enter the Princess, who goes over the Stage as a Spirit, bows a little to Alcippus, and goes off. Alcip.

Suppose I said" My father, bowing his lowest, politely and rather hastily interrupted.

The Caïd's chamberlain, a middle-aged man of dignified appearance, advanced to meet us between bowing clients and tradesmen.

He was not afraid of Phips and the fleet, of battle or night attack, but the terror which walked in the darkness of sorcerers' times abjectly bowed his old legs.

"Long, weary days, I bowed my pride, and humbled my honor, to ride as squire to this false knight, who daily promised me marriage.

When grown to womanhood she quits the convent, and standing one evening on a balcony a young man passes and takes off his hat to her, she returns the salute; he bows a second and third time, she does the same; he passes and repasses several times, bowing each time, and she does as she has been taught to do by acknowledging the salute.

Seneca, I was, and saw your Kingly Pupyll In Mynstrills habit stand before the Iudges Bowing those hands which the worlds Scepter hold,

Her incorrigible mother was restrained by no such or any other consideration, and contrived to fasten on the Dowager and Lady Harriet a kind of bowing acquaintance, which she made great use of at the rooms.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and it was dark under his feet.

187 collocations for  bowing