How To Use Bowing In A Sentence

And all around her the idiots, the fools, taking her picture, practically bowing before her, treating her like goldarn royalty. Not the End of the World
-- But then they are not charged for seeing the lamps; there is no charge for walking round the walks; there is no charge for looking at the cosmoramic pictures; there is no charge for casting a glance at the orchestra; there is no charge for staring at the other people; there is no charge for bowing or talking to an acquaintance, if you meet one -- all these are gratis; and if you neither eat nor drink, there is no charge for witnessing those who do mangle the long-murdered honours of the coop, and gulp down the most renovating of liquors, be they hale or stout, vite vine, red port, or rack punch. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828
But he could come under video scrutiny after elbowing another player in the head during the final quarter.
It was translucent and obviously a ghost or a close variation of a specter, bowing at the young scientist courteously.
They were bowing as the king and queen walking in.

If his nibs happens to be a regular patron, increase the aforementioned bowing and scraping a hundredfold.
The Zeta Affair was the latest in a long line of bowing to whoever holds the power and secretly keeping these dirty dealings away from public scrutiny.
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While has been completely subsumed by the with a whimper not a bang bowing out of Belle de Jour.
Some shops are bowing to consumer pressure and stocking organically grown vegetables.
That same month, bowing to pressure, he agreed to appoint a Minister for the Coordination of Defence.
It's not fair; he got to the front by elbowing his way forward.
I am wondering if all of that bowing is going to disturb all of the botox Pelosi has floating around in her face. The etiquette of bowing « Dating Jesus
The good and the bad parts of our lives do not interlock with reassuring neatness across the course of a lifetime; instead they sit together in heterogeneous disarray, elbowing one another like distant ancestors told to bunch up tight for a family photograph. On Reading Zen « Tales from the Reading Room
I did put out a quiver-tip, which rocked back and forth like a blade of grass bowing and stooping before the wind.
All preparations having been slowly completed the day for departure arrived, and Chin, with much bowing and ceremonial posturing, having wished his wife and little son adieu, embarked with Wang, taking the equivalent of five thousand dollars [2] in sycee shoes and gold-dust, and amidst valedictory fusillades of fire-crackers, as well as a beating of gongs, the flotilla cast off and sailed away down river. Life and sport in China Second Edition
The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
But by 6 pm, invaders had already taken over the band, jostling, pushing and elbowing anyone in their path, forcing reluctant revelers to the sides of the road.
The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
For musical purposes a wide variety of different bowing gestures are used, such as martelé (hammered bowing with a sudden release) and spiccato (rapid detached notes with the bow bouncing off the strings).
After half an hour's hard exercise, the dear creatures had remüé themselves into a perfect fureur, and the piece concluded by the ladies exposing that which is better felt than seen; and, in that state of nature, walked from the bottom of the theatre to the top where we were sitting on the grass, till they approached just by us, and then we complimented them in bowing, with all the honours of war. Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
The military junta had no intention of bowing to this verdict. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
‘Oh, and look at that,’ he said, elbowing me and nodding toward a woman wearing tight ski pants.
‘Oh, and look at that,’ he said, elbowing me and nodding toward a woman wearing tight ski pants.
Yueyue's parents were photographed meeting the woman, bowing down in a ritual 'kowtow' - a public expression of gratitude that she had stopped to help their daughter when so many others had walked on by. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
And they are all bowing to Joseph in fulfillment of the prophecy.
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Mahatma Gandhi
_ Bowing, as we passed, he consigned us, with a graceful wave of the hand, to the care of Pierre, the _frotteur_. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831
But where there are not these impediments, experience telleth us that the success is much greater, at least as to the bowing of people to more calmness and teachableness; yet we cannot expect they all will be brought to so much reason. The Reformed Pastor
The whole party then came forth into the street, and all in a body poured into the haberdasher's shop, smiling, bowing, and of one accord wishing her joy. Camilla
Another over-watchful Newbury "awakener" rapped on the head a nodding man who protested indignantly that he was wide-awake, and was only bowing in solemn assent and approval of the minister's arguments. Sabbath in Puritan New England
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In his buttonhole was a hyacinth, and in one slender ivory hand he carried a huge bunch of pink roses, which, bowing deeply, he presented to the embarrassed girl. Fire-Tongue
People are bowing in the presence of what they suppose to be the antiquity, that is, the hoary-headed wisdom, of the world. Our Unitarian Gospel
We turned to see one of the castles' many servants bowing to us.
Simply watching the string players' bowing arms thrusting away made me smile. Times, Sunday Times
I had a yellow belt in tae kwan do, but they only taught me rubbish stuff like bowing and none of the good stuff like flying kicks and how to break wood just by looking at it.
At once, there was intense jostling and elbowing.
And the two senior priests, after bowing with reverence, enter the Sacrarium or wherever the Lord's Body is being reserved from the previous day and place.
The English player accused the Frenchman of deliberately elbowing him in the face after he was left with a broken nose.
I cracked up laughing as Lane suddenly appeared in all her black and pierced glory, bowing to an imaginary crowd before posing for photographs that weren't being taken.
The Prime Minister, however, was simply bowing to the inevitable.
The two votaries transitioned from their standing posture to a kind of rhythmic bowing and finally into a repetitive genuflecting motion.
Alathea barely had time to consider the why before the wherefore was bowing before her. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
`Yeah, bowing and scraping and tugging your forelock to all those rich old crones. THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
Formal greetings are made by bowing the head and upper body.
Obama has a superiority complex AND he's a "pantywaist" for going on "apology tours" and bowing to show respect to Saudi leaders. Propeller Most Popular Stories
Through the sparkling breadth of white, which seemed to glance my eyes away, and outside the humps of laden trees, bowing their backs like a woodman, I contrived to get along, half-sliding and half-walking, in places where a plain-shodden man must have sunk, and waited freezing till the thaw should come to him. Lorna Doone
So saying, the Duchess rose, and the Major, bowing gallantly gave her the limb she demanded, and went off with her, 'haw'-ing in his best and most ponderous manner. The Amateur Gentleman
This is the reason for head-coverings, face-veilings, bowing, kneeling, genuflecting, and other signs of spiritual modesty.
As for the title track, why not use plucked strings, craggy violin bowing, and rumbling xylophones to gleefully pervert the title's sentiment?
We went where there were free samples, elbowing each other out of the way to get to them.
As we drove into the qila's courtyard we saw a crowd of between twenty and 30 retainers massing to greet the rajah, all frantically bowing and salaaming; as Suleiman got out of the car the foremost ones dived to touch his feet.
We called her bureau to inform them of the epidemic, and they said they have assigned her to a new house, the Bowings, a family of six over on the West Side. Deadly
At the other end of the process of manufacture, there were merchants who organized the ginning and bowing of the raw cotton and sold the rovings to the spinners.
The Japs are a wonderful race; they seem to be the happiest people going, always smiling and good-natured, always polite and gentle, always bowing and scraping. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
The Big Ten laid a Big Egg, with all five of its teams bowing out.
Your upper calves should press forward toward your shinbones rather than bowing back in order to move your shinbone slightly forward away from your heels.
Bowing her face, she recited the final words and felt the surge as the Black Heart’s essence swept within the flames of the darkfire. Wit'ch Storm
Simple bows are tensioned by the natural spring of the stick, bent like an archer's bow, which can be enhanced by the fingers of the bowing hand acting on the stick and the hair.
The whole party then came forth into the street, and all in a body poured into the haberdasher's shop, smiling, bowing, and of one accord wishing her joy. Camilla
The Gallery is also bending over backwards to boost attendance, and in doing so is rather alarmingly bowing to populist pressures.
The word for Lord is "chop" and the word for pig is "choooo," and the Chinese missionary made a mistake in intonation with the result that a cartoon appeared showing a man bowing down before a pig which had been nailed upon a cross. ChinaIts People and Their Life
Strasbourg were reduced to 10 men early in the second half when striker Lionel Rouxel was dismissed for elbowing an opponent.
Many of the most demanding techniques of the present-day violinist are associated primarily with him, including ‘ricochet’ bowing, left-hand pizzicato, and double-stop harmonics.
That's where the kids who were fighting decided to get off too, pushing and elbowing their way past the other people who were trying to get off.
Rapid bowing, slow bows and staccato to bowing are reviewed, and exercises for each are prescribed.
I remember when I first arrived here, seeing two drivers - whose automobiles had just collided - bowing deeply to each other at the roadside over the unpardonable offence each had just committed against the other.
Checks and pinstripes are bowing out to colours, frill and funk.
In Rome the clutter of history elbowing the jowls of the modern seems overwhelming, in Venice - despite obvious historical layers and tourist-trap intrusions - it all seems made of one piece.
the violinist's bowing was excellent
Obviously his concern about retiring after the summer Euros debacle would have been that he was bowing out on such a low note. The Sun
Why do all these people keep bowing and curtsying and such?
Just email me and rant and rave and I'll get back to you, bowing thanks for putting me on your favorites list!
The no-more-bowing decision was credited to His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, an amiable, faintly woebegone chap who is a cousin of the queen.
The same can be said of other models bowing next year.
A week later, bowing and salaaming to me as grateful patients often do, he was discharged with a smile almost as long as the well healed incision on his thigh.
They were bowing as the king and queen walking in.
Courtship includes many displays - vocalizing, bowing, bill tapping, and stretching to show off nuptial plumes.
So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing; nor did the swords cease on the napes of men to make play nor the strife to rage with more and more affray, till the most part of the night was past away and the two hosts were aweary of the mellay. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
`Yeah, bowing and scraping and tugging your forelock to all those rich old crones. THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
He quickly rectified that error by bowing to the conventions of hippiedom and restyled himself as Jeff Starship.
Bowing unto the gods, and especially unto the Brahmanas, I then smilingly addressed Rama stationed for battle, saying, -- Although thou hast shown little regard for me, yet I have fully honoured thy preceptorship! The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
They hobble out of their limousines, bowing in all their pristine, extravagant absurdity.
She filled the basin in the downstairs bathroom and bowing her head plunged the heavy dark mass into the hot water.
Looming over them, the fat man's whole bowing, perspiring presence was an admonition to them not to worry. UNREASONABLE DOUBT
Lords and dukes and counts came up to me in an endless line, bowing and asking for a dance.
Then, bowing over the altar, he says the prayer “Perceptio corporis tui”; following the usual rite of Mass, he communicates with the Sacred Host. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified
During courtship, the male displays for the female by scraping a nest and bowing next to the female while flashing the white on his tail.
The policeman could be seen elbowing the prisoner twice in the shoulder area of his back during the struggle.
Bowing under the high cost of living, Israeli taxpayers have accused the ultra-Orthodox of sponging off the state.
She maintains her wanness behind a cello, bowing away, all woebegone.
But even where he walked, amid a society intellectually fostering sentiment, in a land bowing to see the simplicity of the mystery paraded, Alvan's behaviour was passing heteroclite. The Tragic Comedians — Complete
Their feet planted on the marble floor, they stood, bearing up with unbowing strength, through the long centuries, the massive, stable, steadfast roof, from which the spirit of tranquillity and calm seemed to breathe upon you. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
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At the other end of the process of manufacture, there were merchants who organized the ginning and bowing of the raw cotton and sold the rovings to the spinners.
The Italian greets me with great courtliness: first relieving me of my burdens, then bowing gracefully, his lips remaining just a hair's breadth above my extended hand.
The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
While watching a Broncos game at a Manhattan bar, Jared Kleinstein coined Tebowing , which he defined as praying "even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different. Tim Tebow: Denver's New Favorite Mensch
When he dismissed them, the last flash of him was of a smiling, rollicking improvisator, bowing himself over to the applause till his black hair was level with our eyes. Golden Lads
Watch Siem as he tosses off the left-hand pizzicato, double-stop harmonics and spiccato bowing as if he were buttering bread. NPR Topics: News
Meanwhile, the defending champion trained her focus on the grass court season after bowing out of the French Open at the quarter-final stage.
The principle is the same, but the notes become even more complex through the use of harmonic overtones and (again, my guess) unconventional bowing.
It's not fair; he got to the front by elbowing his way forward.
‘Thank you, milord.’ she said, bowing her head with gratefulness
He took off his hat to her, bowing from the waist - and a Polish hussar couldn't have done it better, damn him. The Sky Writer
Or perhaps it is bowing to pressure to satisfy the requirements of government league tables rather than benefiting the educational needs of students. Times, Sunday Times
Milou and Squawk, two young males, are also beginning to exhibit courtship behavior, hanging out with each other, billing and bowing.
I am your Imam so do not precede me in bowing, prostration, standing or leaving.
The whole experience will feel a bit like taking a sweat-stained midsummer National Express coach journey with an entire battalion of elite concert violinists who somehow manage to perform an hour and a half of Schoenberg even while they're banging each other in the ear with their bowing arm.6 Lionel Messi will do something completely different. Ten ways to satisfy your constant craving for El Clásico | Barney Ronay
The _martellato_, a _nuance_ of _spiccato_, should be played with a firm bowing at the point. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
Focusing the scopes on the distant brick wall with its very distinct vertical and horizontal lines, we checked for pincushion distortion (lines bowing in) and barrel distortion (lines bowing out).
In his small webbed hands he held Spitz's helmet which Pax gently accepted bowing his thanks.
Hands in their laps, both husband and wife address the soup bowl, bowing.
They are also, alas, elbowing common sense out of the window. Times, Sunday Times
Bowing elegantly, Zander quietly left the room.
Oh, we'll be right back, Miss Madenda,'said one of the chaps, bowing.
Or perhaps it is bowing to pressure to satisfy the requirements of government league tables rather than benefiting the educational needs of students. Times, Sunday Times
Customers vouch for the convenience of shopping in a plaza without the hassle of elbowing through a crowded market.
The cellist's bowing was very sensitive .
I'm bowing out of this scheme I don't approve of it.
Thus thought Dwining, as, returned from his visit to Sir John Ramorny, he added the gold he had received for his various services to the mass of his treasure; and, having gloated over the whole for a minute or two, turned the key on his concealed treasure house, and walked forth on his visits to his patients, yielding the wall to every man whom he met and bowing and doffing his bonnet to the poorest burgher that owned a petty booth, nay, to the artificers who gained their precarious bread by the labour of their welked hands. The Fair Maid of Perth
He slid the pencil down into his puttee and stood up, bowing. Shelled by an Unseen Foe
Denying that the government is bowing to public pressure, a bureau spokeswoman said the delay in building a hospital was due to lower-than-expected population growth in Tung Chung.
One of these splendid titfers inevitably came loose during the athletic bowing at the end of the show, but it was quickly shoved back on, a bit low over the eyes and noticeably skew-whiff, and yet still remarkably stylish nonetheless.
Thank you, King Shamesh, for sharing your wisdom,' Salmelu said, bowing with exaggerated punctilio. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
Bowing in New York and L.A. October 14th after screening this week at the fest is The Skin I Live In by Pedro Almodovar, the reliably hell-raising Spanish auteur. Erica Abeel: Both Nutzoid and Thrilling: Almodovar's The Skin I Live In
Isaac's blessing prophesied that Esau would bow down before Jacob; but no, here is Jacob, bowing down before Esau.
‘Thank you for letting me stay over, Mrs. Ratana,’ Kira chirruped politely, bowing slightly to Rebecca.
‘I thought tennis had had enough of manners,’ he writes, ‘of bowing and curtsying to rich people who didn't pay taxes.’
And then, within a matter of months, people were bowing to her, people were curtsying to her, people were looking at everything she wore, analyzing everything.
She sat down on a sofa near her father, and bowing statelily to Colonel Vaughan, said, -- Gladys, the Reaper
Each had their own path and they glided on narrow passageways between each other, smiling or bowing but not impeding.
Messieurs," he intoned, bowing low and directing them to one of the little tables. The Life of the World to Come
The kids are bowing and blowing kisses and lapping it up and us volunteers are melting into the background and letting them have their moment.
Courtship includes ledge displays with the male and female bowing to each other.
I sprung forward; and, with a pleasure that bordered upon agony, I embraced his knees, I kissed his hands, I wept over them, but could not speak: while he, now raising his eyes in thankfulness towards heaven, now bowing down his reverend head, and folding me in his arms, could scarce articulate the blessings with which his kind and benevolent heart overflowed. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
With respect to the amazing technical wizardry written into the original work (i.e. left-hand pizzicato, harmonics, spiccato bowings, etc.), Gao asserted, ‘I try to do as much as I can physically.’
The ship moved through the pack ice, elbowing floes out of the way as if they were unwanted thoughts.
Five preludes for solo cello imaginatively explore a restricted sonorous range of bowing, staccato and spiccato.
I also "complimented" Cheney for (according to Bob Woodward's book) defiantly not bowing his head in the Oval Office when our intellectually challenged Commander-in-Chief asked him and the other advisors to pray with him for God's help in slaughtering Middle Easterners. CounterPunch
I was dazzled by the friendly clerks, who kept bowing at customers, and the quantity and quality of consumer goods.
The whole family filed into my surgery to thank me, bobbing and bowing, looking so doleful, then smiling.
It thus came to pass that the poor white man registered it as his first duty to wreak vengeance upon this unbowing, scornful Negro standing between him and all that was dear to his heart. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist
Sometimes it's every bit as hard-edged and engaging as you might imagine, elbowing its way right up to the forefront of your consciousness, demanding you re-assess your scandalously dismissive attitude toward fusion.
At the completion of the game, Warne lapped up yet another standing ovation from the 79,000-strong crowd, the champ responding in kind, bowing and blowing kisses to the crowd before a futile attempt to chair him off the ground.
She had been there for one instant, and then gone again; no one around him seemed to have noticed, and the people pushed past him rudely, shoving and elbowing him on the street.
said the family practitioner faintly: bowing at the same time to the Doctor, as much as to say, "Excuse my putting in a word, but this is a valuable connexion.
Miller later got himself booked and was back in the wars towards the end when Gary Smith accused him of elbowing him in the face.
elbowing is a foul in basketball
a study in spiccato bowing
Obviously his concern about retiring after the summer Euros debacle would have been that he was bowing out on such a low note. The Sun
Which is a safe choice, but hardly the point of a festival about elbowing the creative boundaries a little.
Left unreported is that the President will be practicing his bowing as both Norway and Denmark have monarchs he might meet. Source: Obama to go to Copenhagen climate-change summit
We have seen him sneering and leering as he made his way round a drawing-room at an evening party, and bowing like a French perruquier to some absurd fool of a foreigner; and we have seen him, a minute after, holding up his head and cocking his chin in defiance, if an English voice approached. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
He jumped over the ropes and ran swiftly across the field, leaving Reggie to saunter along at his leisure, bowing to the ladies in the grandstand and on the tally-hos as he passed.
She knew a little curtsying and bowing never hurt. Bubble in the Bathtub
The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
In one instance, I had come up the river in an express boat, and had arrived as soon as the mail; but, presently, in came Master's _circar_, bowing low, and "hoping Master has had a pleasant voyage, and made too much money. Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.
He stood straight, his shoulders unbowing, bringing him a lot nearer my height. The Gates of Noon
Edwards vainly attempted a few explanations before bowing to the reality that running for president, even if you are blessed with natural political gifts, is never child's play.
Janey sing-songed, elbowing me in hopes of a happier response.
Simply watching the string players' bowing arms thrusting away made me smile. Times, Sunday Times
To begin with, he ran through the sarabande in his mind, his left hand twitching the fingering behind him, the muscles of his bowing arm tensing and relaxing rhythmically. Fear Itself
Amid the group of bowing women, I saw the fan who had made me the bedazzled cell-phone cover. Welcome to My World
And, too -- and note this well -- not the Berlin of the rouged menu and silk-stockinged _kellner_, not the trumped-up Berlin of the vaselined vassal, of the bowing _oberkellner_, not the Berlin of the affected canteloupe (3,50 m.) and the affected biscuit tortoni (2,40 Europe After 8:15
A plucky schoolboy fought off a robber who tried to steal his sweet money by elbowing him in the stomach.
But politics being politics ........ the meak will lower their heads in bowing to the DNC. Sources: Most uncommitted senators to endorse Obama
The kek would sweep inwards as the van roared along the lane; bowing in obeisance. On the Verge
The salt continued moving along lines of least resistance and began to push upward, bowing up the overlying sedimentary rocks to form the classic elongated anticlinal structure.
Logan pushed his way through the crowd, elbowing people left and right.
They faced each other, each bowing slightly in respect to a worthy opponent.
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As he moved into the darkened hallway he could see those conifers bowing deferentially to the strong breeze.
Bowing of synovial kinesthetic geraniales can aegospotamos to virucidal susian to the threefold pussley quicklime. Rational Review
B&N says it's bowing to customers 'demands that it carry O.J. Simpson's roman à slay, which is sad enough, but at least the retailer says it will sell the book without actively marketing it, so perhaps we should be grateful for that small concession to taste. settlement of the Turcotte family's lawsuit against Augusten Burroughs Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
Which means I'm on a mission: elbowing my way past strangers, zig-zagging between cars, even occasionally breaking into a uncharacteristically moderately paced stroll.
Before you clowns start saying that bowing is okay, name me one U. S President that has bowed to anyone. First on the Ticker: DNC begins ad campaign against GOP
So do the shadows and the sunshine wander, elbowing into one another on the moor, and so does the glance of smiling foliage soothe the austerity of crag and scaur. Mary Anerley
Wouldn't it be interesting if the organisation and the referees get really tough on the pulling, dragging and elbowing that passes for football.
Yet still, while the years passed, he waited, -- listening -- listening -- listening; a kindly, simple old man with mystical brown eyes, believing meekly in his own unworth to hear again that Sound from Heaven, as of a rushing, mighty wind, that had filled the London Chapel, bowing human souls before it as a great wind bows the standing corn! The Voice
I have $1 on Palin bowing out to spend more time with her family (shotgun wedding for her high school dropout daughter ya know) ... then Romney is moved in as the financial steady hand ... announcement by Oct 15 18 Tingilinde:
Add to that the speeding fine and a five-match ban for elbowing an opponent.
Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), says it is bowing out of 2008 TIMSSA, an advanced version of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study given quadrennially to younger students, because it can't fit the $5 million to $10 million price tag into its flat budget. A Letter to the Editor
Bowing your head to a monarch is an act of subservience. Should you be bothered that Pres. Obama bowed to the Japanese emperor? « Dating Jesus
The story was on the front page, elbowing aside the peace talks.
And that means bowing to his players who have held a number of crisis meetings over their discontent at the Spaniard's methods. The Sun
At the time, Gatewood Baptist Church was a ragged, tumbling wood frame structure with tilted steeple, sinking foundations, and loose planks bowing from the ceilingor in real estate jargon, a bona fide “fixer upper.” The Reverend (copy)
He jumped over the ropes and ran swiftly across the field, leaving Reggie to saunter along at his leisure, bowing to the ladies in the grandstand and on the tally-hos as he passed.
all that bowing and scraping did not impress him
It was translucent and obviously a ghost or a close variation of a specter, bowing at the young scientist courteously.
Intensifying calls for management change, RIM agreed in June to review its unusual co-CEO and co-chairmen structure, bowing to pressure from shareholder activists. Directors at RIM Pressed to Exert Control
But my bowing arm wasn't steady. Times, Sunday Times
When the venerable Bailly was brought forward, who formerly so often predicted to the Court the calamities which its imprudence must produce, he appeared painfully affected; and when he was asked if he knew the wife of Capet, "Yes," said he, bowing respectfully, "I have known Madame. 16 October and the Martyrdom of Marie-Antoinette
The Italian greets me with great courtliness: first relieving me of my burdens, then bowing gracefully, his lips remaining just a hair's breadth above my extended hand.
At a command given by the sensei, every member of the class shows his respect to the instructor by bowing.
Severely affected birds may have a marked bowing of the tibia, be reluctant to move, and have a stilted gait.
Some are like ancient forts, some like old men bowing.
They have become almost as bad as MSNBC in bowing to the left wing of the democratic party. John King to replace Lou Dobbs
Scoring whitely their tracery of intricate lines, the groups go by in whorls, in angles, in sweeping circles, and the ice shrinks beneath them; here a fairy couple slide along, waving and bowing and swinging together; far away some recluse in his pleasure sports alone with folded arms, careening in the outward roll like the mast of a phantom-craft; everywhere inshore clusters of ruddy-cheeked boys race headlong with their hawkey-sticks, and with their wild cries, making benders where the ice surges in a long swell: and constantly in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864

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