obeisance
Usage examples for obeisance:
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Musa stepped over to the pedestal, dropped a coin into the bowl, and walked toward the rear of the temple, making proper obeisance to the huge statue.
"The Players" – Everett B. Cole -
He walked into the room, not with a dictated obeisance but with a hurrying step, a half pleased, yet a half frightened look, an instantaneous survey of every person present; not as demanding " what they thought of him," but expressing almost as plainly as in direct words, " what he thought of them."
"Nature and Art" – Mrs. Inchbald -
I greeted him with an obeisance and explained my errand.
"Vendetta A Story of One Forgotten" – Marie Corelli -
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore: Not the least obeisance made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door,- Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
"The American Union Speaker" – John D. Philbrick