"Bowing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he commenced surveying me attentively for some time, and then cast his eyes on Antonio. "Whom have we here?" said he to the latter; "surely your features are not unknown to me." "Probably not, your reverence," replied Antonio, getting up and bowing most profoundly. "I lived in the family of the Countess -, at Cintra, when your venerability was her spiritual guide." "True, true," said the old gentleman, sighing, "I remember you now. Ah, Antonio, things are strangely ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... my abomination—a nasty, earwigging, flattering, bowing old rogue. The master, Mr Smith, was a very quiet man, plain and unoffending, but perfectly master of, and ...
— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat
... that first night I saw a young man looking very anxious, very uncomfortable, and very weak. The second time—and not very long after—I saw him well dressed, lounging like any other young man on a Sunday afternoon, and I believed that he took the liberty of bowing to me then because I had once looked at ...
— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... the satisfaction due to a gentleman," said the stranger, who had become more calm. "I have not an acquaintance in this region. Perhaps you, sir," bowing to Sancher, "will be kind enough to represent ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various
... fine,' answered Bautru, bowing low; 'but your Majesty ought to make the man who has charge of it an officer of ...
— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts
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