submissively

How To Use submissively In A Sentence

• At Hyde Park Corner on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penitentially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own. Mrs. Dalloway
• He himself bore them submissively for thirteen years; for six he suffered from lithiasis, and for seven years from stomatitis (or, as some say, six years from the former and seven from the latter). Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
• ‘I apologize for my foolishness, Sire,’ he submissively replied, lowering his eyes in defeat.
• Her Majesty sits squat on her throne, her head crowned, a sceptre in one hand, an orb in the other, and two lions stretch submissively at the imperial feet while she stares with bronze eyes at the distant horizons of Empire.
• He must make up his mind to lay aside what he calls his manly instincts and personal independence, and resolve to submissively obey all order of his superiors without a murmur, even though they are not stated exactly in accordance with the rules of syntax, laid down by Lindley Murray. The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man,
• And so, I submissively give in at this stage and let the winds of politics blow all around me without seeking to alter the course of the raging seas and tempests that may lie ahead.
• She is both poised and uptight, both intellectually curious and submissively ladylike.
• It means publicly reprimanding politicians who insist that ‘as Americans’ we should submissively yield to whatever the Supreme Court decides.
• When I arrived at the enclosures, he was inside, crouched submissively alongside a huge silver-backed male.
• It's not true the world's oldest continent was merely an area of darkness that submissively awaited enlightenment.