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Bowed in sentence

315 examples of Bowed in a sentence

Having delivered himself to this effect, Mr. Snodgrass bowed again, looked into the crown of his hat, and stepped towards the door.
Sam bowed again and sat down; his father looking round, he continued--'The gov'nor, sir, has drawn out five hundred and thirty pound.''Reduced counsels,' interposed Mr. Weller, senior, in an undertone.
He bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his chambers.
He bowed me out of the room and I went home with my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased at my own good fortune.
Sherlock Holmes welcomed her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was peculiar to him.
His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, sinewy neck.
His slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual strength of body and of character.
Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer.
With a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and strode off upon his way.
'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet and capable of preserving a secret.'"I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an address.
'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which he bowed and left the room without another word.
To Marianne, he merely bowed and said nothing.
He entered the room with a look of self-consequence, slightly bowed to the ladies, without speaking a word, and, after briefly surveying them and their apartments, took up a newspaper from the table, and continued to read it as long as he staid.
She soon caught his eye, and he immediately bowed, but without attempting to speak to her, or to approach Marianne, though he could not but see her; and then continued his discourse with the same lady.
will you listen to me?"Elinor bowed her assent.
For answer to this she only bowed her head on the sleeve of her riding-habit, and began to cry softly.
He bowed and assented, allowing Kate's reproaches to pass over his head, and parrying all questions with the statement: "This hospital only allowed one hundred and fifty rupees per mensem from state revenues.
Back I"The horse's head was bowed on his lathering chest under the pressure of the curb; but before obeying he planted his fore feet, and bucked as viciously as one of Tarvin's own broncos.
He bowed forward, struck his stirrups home, and began lashing his animal furiously.
The Queen bowed her head quietly.
He has told me that much," said Kate, who had lost no word of the conversation from her place on the cushion, bowed forward with her chin supported in her hands.
Tarvin leaped to his feet, caught the side of the cart, and bowed profoundly after the Oriental manner.
But an imperious glance from the stranger stopped him short; he bowed humbly and retired.
Habitually he spoke little and slowly, bowed frequently, laughed without noise, showing his teeth, which were fine and of which, as the rest of his person, he appeared to take great care.
3 THE AUDIENCEM de Treville was at the moment in rather ill-humor, nevertheless he saluted the young man politely, who bowed to the very ground; and he smiled on receiving d’Artagnan’s response, the Bearnese accent of which recalled to him at the same time his youth and his country--a double remembrance which makes a man smile at all ages; but stepping toward the antechamber and making a sign to d’Artagnan with his hand, as if to ask his permission to finish with others before he began with him, he called three times, with a louder voice at each time, so that he ran through the intervening tones between the imperative accent and the angry accent.
D’Artagnan bowed without replying, feeling his desire to don the Musketeer’s uniform vastly increased by the great difficulties which preceded the attainment of it.
And he bowed in order to retire, and as if he considered the future in his own hands.
The two young men bowed and separated, Aramis ascending the street which led to the Luxembourg, while d’Artagnan, perceiving the appointed hour was approaching, took the road to the Carmes-Deschaux, saying to himself, "Decidedly I can’t draw back; but at least, if I am killed, I shall be killed by a Musketeer."
There was a moment of silence, during which the two men looked at each other, as if to make a preliminary acquaintance, after which d’Artagnan bowed, as a sign that he listened.
D’Artagnan bowed to Mme.
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