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Definition of the day : « kowtow »
- verb grovel
- And yet he did not move—he made no movement save to kowtow for mercy with his head.
- Extract from : « Wang the Ninth » by Putnam Weale
- No matter how servile he may be at home, everyone will kowtow to him abroad.
- Extract from : « Villa Elsa » by Stuart Henry
- Li stood there behind her and made a sign to us to kowtow to her.
- Extract from : « Two Years in the Forbidden City » by The Princess Der Ling
- We had to kowtow again in thanking Her Majesty for her kindness and finally she said: "Nemen tzowba" (you can go now).
- Extract from : « Two Years in the Forbidden City » by The Princess Der Ling
- I think it is perfectly frightful the way we bow down and kowtow to your beast—the great god Cash!
- Extract from : « Pirates' Hope » by Francis Lynde
- Want nothing better than to curtsy and kowtow when I flung out a gracious order?
- Extract from : « Queed » by Henry Sydnor Harrison
- It shows what a nice disposition you have, to come to me to-day, after the way my nephew made me kowtow to you yesterday.
- Extract from : « Mrs. Darrell » by Foxcroft Davis
- After a great deal of kowtow, they were planted in two chairs opposite each other in the living-room.
- Extract from : « The Monster and Other Stories » by Stephen Crane
- As he declined to kowtow before the emperor, he was not admitted to the imperial presence and the mission proved 199 abortive.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 » by Various
- To the emperor, the “kowtow” is performed by kneeling three times, each act accompanied by touching the ground with the forehead.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 8 » by Various