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Bowed in sentence

315 examples of Bowed in a sentence

On hearing the password, Germain bowed.
The officer took from the table the papers pointed out, gave them to him who asked for them, bowed to the ground, and retired.
The Comte de Rochefort bowed like a man who acknowledges the superiority of the master as great, and retired.
The messenger, without replying a single word, bowed, took the letter, with the order for the two hundred pistoles, and retired.
Treville bowed very respectfully, with a joy that was not unmixed with fear; he would have preferred an obstinate resistance on the part of the cardinal to this sudden yielding.
The chancellor, who, on his part, trembled with an emotion easily to be conceived, took the letter, bowed to the ground, and retired.
Thereupon the cardinal, hearing the clock strike eleven, bowed low, asking permission of the king to retire, and supplicating him to come to a good understanding with the queen.
The lackey bowed to the ground and departed.
He thanked the governor, bowed, and departed.
The secretary bowed and retired.
D’Artagnan bowed to the duke, and was retiring.
D’Artagnan bowed to the duke, and made his way as quickly as possible to the riverside.
He bowed to him, then, full of gratitude for the past and for the future; and the worthy captain, who on his side felt a lively interest in this young man, so brave and so resolute, pressed his hand kindly, wishing him a pleasant journey.
The two men in black bowed in their turn.
The two men in black rose, bowed to Aramis and d’Artagnan, and advanced toward the door.
The Englishmen bowed and went upstairs.
D’Artagnan blushed with pleasure, and bowed a sign of assent.
A tall, pale clerk, his face shaded by a forest of virgin hair, opened the door, and bowed with the air of a man forced at once to respect in another lofty stature, which indicated strength, the military dress, which indicated rank, and a ruddy countenance, which indicated familiarity with good living.
Upon a look from the procurator, accompanied by a smile from Mme. Coquenard, they arose slowly from the table, folded their napkins more slowly still, bowed, and retired.
The mendicant continued to rip his garments; and drew from amid his rags a hundred and fifty Spanish double pistoles, which he laid down on the table; then he opened the door, bowed, and went out before the young man, stupefied by his letter, had ventured to address a word to him.
Bazin perceived he was wrong; he bowed and went out.
All that which a man wounded in his self-love could let fall in the shape of imprecations and reproaches upon the head of a woman Porthos let fall upon the bowed head of the procurator’s wife.
And Athos bowed to d’Artagnan like a man who wishes it understood that he would not be sorry to be left alone with his thoughts.
D’Artagnan bowed with respect.
The three Musketeers bowed to the necks of their horses.
Athos bowed.
As these words agreed wholly with the order they had received, they bowed their heads in sign of assent.
I do not like to have simple soldiers, because they have the advantage of serving in a privileged corps, thus to play the great lords; discipline is the same for them as for everybody else."Athos allowed the cardinal to finish his sentence completely, and bowed in sign of assent.
It appeared to her that the blast as it swept along disheveled her brow, as it bowed the branches of the trees and bore away their leaves.
The tall man had scarcely read these lines, seen the signature, and recognized the seal, when he bowed to denote that he had no longer any objection to make, and that he was ready to obey.
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