How To Use Obeisance In A Sentence
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In Bihar, for instance, during the Chhath festival, devotees are required to stand in waist-deep water while paying obeisance to the Sun-god.
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The infant Isabella from her coign to do obeisance toward the duffgerent, as first futherer with drawn brand.
Finnegans Wake
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I offer repeated obeisances unto Lord Krishna, who is the protector and well-wisher of the cows and the brahmanas.
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He became visibly annoyed when we offered him what was less obeisance than he expected and demanded and soon walked off with flaming cheeks, leaving us to the ministrations of his staff.
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I'm afraid the day of the teacher, the priest and the doctor being the three important people to whom you pay obeisance is not around any longer, certainly not in Europe.
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Therefore he appears as the Deity to accept the worship and obeisances of His devotees.
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But those New Zealanders not utterly transfixed by the imperial glare of London or Washington have sensed that our national interests lie in a wider kind of collective security than is offered by simple colonial obeisance.
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In the beginning of that book he has offered his obeisances to his different gurus, and it is to be noted that he has adored them all equally.
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She offered it as obeisance to the Lord Brihadeeswara, presiding deity of the temple.
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Kirtans (devotional songs) rendered the air while the faithful paid obeisance and listened to the kirtans and the Gurbani (Guru's voice).
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The wind came in light gusts, -rippling the surface of the water, the reeds and rushes bending in obeisance.
AMAGANSETT
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Thou knowest with what joy I roamed over thy confines, and beheld the universal beauty that then was spread around; how tenderly I whispered through thy flowers, how joyfully I carried up their fragrant odours as a thank-offering to heaven; how merrily I sported on the hills, or taught the branches of thy lofty trees to bow, as in obeisance to Him who made them!
Parables From Nature
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When they are successful a bell rings and a mechanical buddha lights up and makes a creaky obeisance.
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The rhetoric of the khilat relationship - obligation, etiquette, obeisance, summoned, commanded, respect, honour - is unique to Iranian-influenced cultures.
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The more timid paid obeisance to the policies of the founders, but they also snippily noted that ‘their views were necessarily limited.’
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Kenneth Hite's Journal
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Temple bells chimed as men in flowing kurtas and multicoloured turbans and bejewelled women in vivid pinks and purples paid obeisance to their guru, Baba Gulabgir.
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When they are successful a bell rings and a mechanical buddha lights up and makes a creaky obeisance.
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It was a knee-jerk design modification made in obeisance to the myth that Americans hate hatchbacks.
The Volkswagen Jetta's graceful ride back down to earth
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On the other side of the cross, the copper-haired, long-nosed St John stoops in sad obeisance.
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The grail itself was sin, none other than sin itself; what greater obeisance to Love itself than to part with all?
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We'll all pretend to be duly chastised by our libertine ways and pay obeisance to those good heartland values that neither they nor we actually live by.
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Victory is both a felicitous dip of the head and a glorious obeisance towards the changed life that will surely follow it.
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By putting Guru Granth Sahib in Hindu mandirs, simple Sikh villagers will begin to go to pay obeisance regularly.
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Total grovelling obeisance to Israel is a speciality, with much contempt for the Palestinians and support for Israel as they eviscerated Gazan children, and a manic scheme of extreme toadyish inventiveness, to attempt to arraign Ahmadinejad before the ICC for 'incitement to genocide' over his non-existent calls to 'wipe Israel off the map'.
Dissident Voice
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Kantha Rao said he gradually got over his fear of snakes and would get at least a couple of them home from snake charmers every ‘Subrahmanya Shashti’ to pay obeisance to them.
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The others again addressed themselves to conversing and carousing; and, when the wine get the better of them, the eldest lady who ruled the house rose and making obeisance to them took the cateress by the hand, and said, “Rise, O my sister and let us do what is our devoir.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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They accepted the obeisance when temple priests showered flower petals on them.
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The current of the river dulcifies as if in pacific obeisance to the night.
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Infact Shiva's devotee, Sudheet approached Uma to pay his respectful obeisance.
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That term cleverly covers all those who make no regular obeisance but do have in their hearts a suspicion that there is something beyond all this and that it may be called God.
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Even the angels are inferior to man in status and are asked by God to pay obeisance to him.
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The Bangkokians poured out on the roads to pay obeisance in temples.
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I bow in obeisance: They implemented the classic game Defender … in a favicon.
Geek Envy
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Many stories have come down to us of her cruelty: for example, that she had two serfs sent to Siberia for having failed to make their obeisances to her as she passed - because they did not see her.
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A ‘master of etiquette’ oversees the behavior of those who attend a traditional Taiwanese funeral, informing them as to what obeisances to perform and when to perform them.
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In fact, Zedillo's slavish obeisance to the NAFTA treaty and the neoliberal global economy has increased the number of Mexicans who live below the poverty line, some say by as much as 40%; dislocated millions of peasants and forced them into the edges of the cities to live in subhuman conditions while seeking work; made the Army a power in the civilian government roughly equal to where it stood in 1968 when the UNAM massacre took place; choked off needed funding for the systems of free education and health care; increased dramatically the percentage of Mexicans who are illiterate, addicted, and committing crimes; and produced more billionaires than have France, Great Britain, and Spain combined.
The Oaxaca Newsletter volume 5, No. 14: August 15, 2000
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While he was still young and strong all paid obeisance to him.
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Emperors and officials of various dynasties including Emperor Qinshihuang in 210 BC made obeisance and offered sacrifices at the Mausoleum of Yu the Great.
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In the meantime, let's not forget that icons are not for passive obeisance.
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The leader, a grizzed young man, made the faintest mountain obeisance to Sarima.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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He made obeisance to the king.
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And everywhere the people turning out, in their hands gifts of flowers, and fruit, and fish, and pig, in their hearts love and song, their heads bowed in obeisance to the royal ones while their lips ejaculated exclamations of amazement or chanted meles of old and unforgotten days.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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If you are outside when it starts playing you stop everything and show obeisance in your stillness.
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The business recalls the obeisance to certain Italian gentlemen once required of American presidential candidates, Jenkins wrote, adding:
NYT > Home Page
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Temple bells chimed as men in flowing kurtas and multicoloured turbans and bejewelled women in vivid pinks and purples paid obeisance to their guru, Baba Gulabgir.
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Prior Aymer, therefore, and his character, were well known to our Saxon serfs, who made their rude obeisance, and received his “benedicite, mes filz,” in return.
Ivanhoe
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The kek would sweep inwards as the van roared along the lane; bowing in obeisance.
On the Verge
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The kowtow was the stumbling block; the foreigners were willing to do only such obeisance to the Chinese emperor as they would do to their own sovereigns.
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March 26th, 2010 at 1: 59 pm tombaker says: obeisance is freedom!
Think Progress » Bartlett: Frum’s Dismissal Shows ‘All That Matters Now Is Absolute Subservient Adherence’ To The GOP
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The business recalls the obeisance to certain Italian gentlemen once required of American presidential candidates.
The Guardian World News
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They also expected obeisance, deference, and acquiescence to their methods - even groveling - from me.
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We need to return to the diplomatic obeisance to the United Nations.
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I make obeisance for you every day before the gods of this place.
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The slaves collapsed into reverential obeisances as the angelic flight passed overhead.
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And the feeling for those he loved survived them, and it is monstrous to represent its unspoken and controlled/[Page xxxiv]/expression in obeisance and gesture as a sign of "agonising remorse.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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In the predella, which is very beautiful, and painted by him likewise in distemper, he depicted S. Francis receiving the S.igmata; S. Anthony of Padua, who, in order to convert some heretics, performs the miracle of the Ass, which makes obeisance before the sacred Host; and S. Bernardino of S.ena, who is preaching to the people of his city on the Piazza de 'S.gnori.
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
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All 32 members in the troupe perform the Natakam as an obeisance to Melattur Varadaraja Perumal.
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With low obeisances they begged the foreign "Noyon" to enter the yurta.
Beasts, Men and Gods
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Religion then consists in obeisance to these larger forces, to overcome our fear and dread of the future.
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They had put on other cloaks of thin stuff which floated round them in ample folds; they carried censers in their hands and censed with great reverence the Child and the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph and the whole cave, withdrawing afterwards with low obeisances.
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Temple bells chimed as men in flowing kurtas and multicoloured turbans and bejewelled women in vivid pinks and purples paid obeisance to their guru, Baba Gulabgir.
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It's interesting that he has drawn so much criticism for ascribing intrinsic value to this dialect without making the proper obeisance to external circumstances that accompanied its development.
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Magisterium - or teaching authorityto which obeisance is demanded and is widely made - dates (in its present incarnation) only from the mid-19th century.
OpenDemocracy
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Consistent with your view that Congressmen pass laws in obeisance with their oath, I assume that those same Congressman did the same when passing broad Commerce Clause legislation.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Cass Sunstein Responds to “Constitution in Exile” Post:
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Many pilgrims report seeing the doves-pair when they trek the arduous route to pay obeisance before the ice-lingam (the phallic symbol of Shiva).
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I looked at Frances, she was putting her books into her cabas; having fastened the button, she raised her head; encountering my eye, she made a quiet, respectful obeisance, as bidding good afternoon, and was turning to depart: — “Come here,” said I, lifting my finger at the same time.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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The general commands absolute obeisance.
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Nature intended us to kneel, which is preferable to standing, statue-like, exacting obeisance from others.
Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice
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Temple bells chimed as men in flowing kurtas and multicoloured turbans and bejewelled women in vivid pinks and purples paid obeisance to their guru, Baba Gulabgir.
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The Holy Book should remain open so long as a granthi or attendant can remain in attendance, persons seeking darshan (seeking a view of or making obeisance to it) keep coming, or there is no risk of commission of irreverence towards it.
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And Bath - sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?
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Then, with a low obeisance, the feodary presented her the scroll which had been brought him, post-haste, by Launcelot Crue, the courser-man.
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