bowed down

How To Use bowed down In A Sentence

• The pear tree was bowed down with the weight of its fruit.
• The people all bowed down before the Emperor.
• Why do the vast tribes of India, deceived and enslaved by the bonzes, trampled upon by the descendant of a Tartar, bowed down by labor, groaning in misery, assailed by diseases, and a mark for all the scourges and plagues of life, still fondly cling to that life? A Philosophical Dictionary
• The apple tree was bowed down with the weight of its fruit.
• The syndic was her tenant, and bowed down to her, and the rest of the illiterate officials followed his lead. Taquisara
• The priest bowed down before the altar.
• Here it was before him, a courtroom and a judge, bowed down in subservience by the machine to a dive-keeper who swung a string of votes. The Benefit of the Doubt
• And bowed down to resume his strange rump-in-the-air and face-in-the-sea posture.
• But his aesthetic immoralism remained in substance unchanged - it only bowed down before the rule of dogmatic Christianity.
• And if that threatened squall should burst its bonds and come shrieking and howling in fury across the surface of the sea, scourging it into a mad turmoil of foaming, leaping water and blinding spindrift, while the burnt-out crew of the schooner were making their passage across to the _Mercury_, it might be very bad for them; for even should they be fortunate enough to avoid capsizal, it might be exceedingly difficult, if not altogether impossible, for the ship, smitten and bowed down by the might of the tempest, to pause and pick them up. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship