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Bowed in sentence

315 examples of Bowed in a sentence

Vronsky bowed to her and stopped to shake hands with Stremov.
Vasenka only rose for a moment, and with the absence of politeness to women which is characteristic of modern young men, barely bowed and again continued his conversation, laughing at something.
He shrugged his shoulders, smiled contemptuously, and bowed.
He bowed and said something to Veslovsky, then climbed into the tarantas, and they drove away together.
The walls were plastered with imitation marble and the enormous plate-glass windows were already in place; only the parquet floor was not finished, and the carpenters who were planing a square of the parquet left their work, and removing the tapes that kept their hair out of the way, bowed to the gentlefolk.
But as soon as he entered the semi-circular courtyard, got out of his sledge and entered the porch, where he was met by a hall-porter with a shoulder-belt who noiselessly opened the door and bowed to him; as soon as he saw in the hall the coats and goloshes of those of the members who realized that it was easier to take off their goloshes downstairs than to go up in them; and as soon as he heard the mysterious ring of the bell that announced his ascent; and while mounting the shallow steps of the carpeted stairs perceived the statue on the landing, and saw upstairs the third hall-porter in club livery – whom he recognized, though the man had aged – who opened the door for him without haste or delay, gazing at the new arrival directly he saw all this, Levin was enveloped in the old familiar atmosphere of the place, an atmosphere of repose, ease, and propriety.
On the top landing a footman bowed to Oblonsky as to some one he knew well, and Oblonsky, asking who was with Anna Arkadyevna, received the answer that it was Mr. Vorkuyev.
He bowed to his uncle as to a stranger, but recognizing him he blushed and turned away from him quickly as if offended and angry about something.
A man bowed to her.
From behind him two officers and an elderly man with a large beard and a greasy cap thrust their heads out, and also bowed.
Again the Volunteers bowed and thrust their heads out, but Koznyshev did not pay attention to them: he had had so much to do with Volunteers that he was already familiar with their general type and it did not interest him.
He entered in an excited way and bowed to Madame Hennebeau.
In the porch Pierron bowed very low, while Levaque pretended to adjust his cap.
I bowed, and letting the commander attend to getting under way, I was taken to the cabin that had been set aside for me.
I bowed in agreement.
I bowed, and the commander went on:"We're in longitude 137 degrees 15' west of the meridian of Paris, and latitude 30 degrees 7' north, in other words, about 300 miles from the shores of Japan.
Captain Nemo bowed.
He stood up, bowed, and asked if it suited me to come along.
I bowed to him.
My two companions and I bowed reverently.
"I owed it to myself!"Ned bowed without answering him.
She bowed, blushed, and did not know what to say.
In her white frock and open prunella shoes she had a pretty way, and when she went back to her seat, the gentlemen bent over her to congratulate her; the courtyard was full of carriages; farewells were called to her through their windows; the music master with his violin case bowed in passing by.
The gentleman bowed, and as he moved to stretch out his arm, Emma saw the hand of a young woman throw something white, folded in a triangle, into his hat.
He looked up and bowed.
Often he set out with the determination to dare all; but this resolution soon deserted him in Emma's presence, and when Charles, dropping in, invited him to jump into his chaise to go with him to see some patient in the neighbourhood, he at once accepted, bowed to madame, and went out.
But a gust of wind bowed the poplars, and suddenly the rain fell; it pattered against the green leaves.
Then he put three francs on the corner of the table, bowed negligently, and went out.
And having bowed to one another, they separated.
Emma listened to him with bowed head, and stirred the bits of wood on the ground with the tip of her foot.
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