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Bowed in sentence

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He bowed again politely as he reentered the room, and walking up to Captain Wharton, said, with comic gravity,-"Now, sir, my principal business being done, may I beg to examine the quality of that wig?"
Henry bowed to this remark in distant silence, but Sarah ventured to urge something in behalf of her brother.
The lady bowed her head with dignity, as she named "General Montrose"; and the long-absent bloom stole lightly over her features.
The colonel bowed.
Miss Peyton was a pleased listener, as she dispensed the bounties of the tea table, and Sarah frequently bowed her blushing countenance to her needlework, as her face glowed at the flattering remarks of her companion.
There was but little difficulty in practicing on the abstracted simplicity of the surgeon; but it was necessary for Sarah to raise her eyes to return the salutation of Lawton, as he bowed his head nearly to a level with the hand that held open the door for her passage.
The gentlemen bowed; and the good aunt, with an inherent love of propriety, went on to add, that the acquaintance was of an old date, and the attachment by no means a sudden thing.
To this Lawton merely bowed still more ceremoniously; but the surgeon, who loved to hold converse with the virgin, replied,-"That the human mind was differently constituted in different individuals.
Miss Peyton, in her turn, bowed her silent assent to this remark, and retired with dignity, to usher the intended bride into the presence of the company.
While speaking, the operator laid his hand expressively on his heart, and he bowed nearly to the floor when he had concluded.
The operator bowed a little haughtily, and withdrew to fulfill his promise, by dispatching a messenger on the errand.
At length the general raised his own hat, and bowed gravely to all around him.
The aid bowed and withdrew.
While one boy was worrying the tick with absorbing interest, the other would look on with interest as strong, the two heads bowed together over the slate, and the two souls dead to all things else.
He pulled off his hat, and bowed with all the grace imaginable.
But after that I always noticed that the Major never used the same free fashion of speech that we did towards our lodger, but bowed when he addressed him, and treated him with a wonderful deal of respect.
I bowed, and said, No, it would not hurt me.
This woman whom circumstances had bowed down, and who had at length drawn herself up erect, now revealed all her being and explained her life.
He was seated opposite her, in a floating shadow, and could not see her face which she kept bowed down on her breast.
Therese, resigned and docile, listened to her with bowed head, ready to give satisfaction to her slightest wish.
He resumed his walk up and down, with bowed head, feeling the portrait was staring at him, following him with its eyes.
When she returned in the evening, worn out, her eyelids heavy with exhaustion, it was to find the little wife of Olivier still behind the counter, bowed down, with a vague smile on her lips, in the same attitude as she had left her five hours previously.
There was Gandalin, the squire of Amadis of Gaul, that was Count of the Insula Firme, and we read of him that he always addressed his lord with his cap in his hand, his head bowed down and his body bent double, more turquesco.
I bowed, and he went away to look for the Turks, leaving me alone with Zoraida, who made as if she were about to retire as her father bade her; but the moment he was concealed by the trees of the garden, turning to me with her eyes full of tears she said, "Tameji, cristiano, tameji?" that is to say, "Art thou going, Christian, art thou going?"
Sancho bowed his head very respectfully and kissed both his hands, for, being tied together, he could not kiss one; and then the apparitions lifted the cage upon their shoulders and fixed it upon the ox-cart.
The duchess and the duke expressed the greatest satisfaction, the car began to move on, and as it passed the fair Dulcinea bowed to the duke and duchess and made a low curtsey to Sancho.
Don Quixote bowed his head, and saluted the duke and duchess and all the bystanders, and wheeling Rocinante round, Sancho following him on Dapple, he rode out of the castle, shaping his course for Saragossa.
Altisidora had by this time sat up on the catafalque, and as she did so the clarions sounded, accompanied by the flutes, and the voices of all present exclaiming, "Long life to Altisidora! long life to Altisidora!"The duke and duchess and the kings Minos and Rhadamanthus stood up, and all, together with Don Quixote and Sancho, advanced to receive her and take her down from the catafalque; and she, making as though she were recovering from a swoon, bowed her head to the duke and duchess and to the kings, and looking sideways at Don Quixote, said to him, "God forgive thee, insensible knight, for through thy cruelty I have been, to me it seems, more than a thousand years in the other world; and to thee, the most compassionate upon earth, I render thanks for the life I am now in possession of.
Mr. Smithie bowed deferentially to Sir Thomas Clubber; and Sir Thomas Clubber acknowledged the salute with conscious condescension.
Doctor Slammer's friend bowed, and produced a case similar to that which Mr. Snodgrass carried.
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