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Updated: June 16, 2025
"Alas, Excellence," protested Ming-shu from a bitter throat, "this matter will attenuate down to the stroke of evening rice. Kowtowing beneath your authoritative hand, that which the prisoner only had the intention to relate does not come within the confines of his evidence." "The objection is superficial and cannot be sustained," replied Shan Tien.
He was just making some minute adjustments of the collar when, to his amazement, Captain Renfrew turned on him. "Damn it, sir!" he flared out. "What do you think you are? I didn't engage you for a kowtowing valet in waiting, sir! I asked you, sir, to come under my roof as an intellectual co-worker, as one gentleman asks another, and here you are making these niggery motions! They are disgusting!
France and Germany entangled in entente and Ostpolitik, respectively cozied up to the Kremlin, partly driven by their Euro-communist parties. So did Italy. While the Europeans were busy kowtowing to a repressive USSR and castigating the USA for its warmongering, America has liberated the Soviet satellites and bankrolled their painful and protracted transition.
This circumstance is also rendered more galling by foreigners sitting coolly on their horses by the road-side as the great man passes, generally in a low norimon, on which they must necessarily look down in contradiction to Japanese etiquette, which permits no inferior to look down upon a superior while the people of the country are either abjectly kowtowing to him or patiently waiting in their closed houses until his passing shall set them once more at liberty.
From first to last the nation felt sure of its own strength, and of the impotence of China. The toy- makers put suddenly into the market legions of ingenious mechanisms, representing Chinese soldiers in flight, or being cut down by Japanese troopers, or tied together as prisoners by their queues, or kowtowing for mercy to illustrious generals.
The Oriental accepts my medicines kowtowing, and when my back is turned, chucks the stuff out of the window and burns joss-sticks. I hate this part of the world." "So do I," replied Ruth. "You have lived over here?" astonished. "I was born in the South Seas and I am on my way to America, to an aunt."
While strict attention is paid to the religious observance to the dead, at New Year's the most punctilious ceremony is rendered to the living. After the family have paid their respects to one another the younger male members go from house to house "kowtowing" to the elders who are there to receive them.
Farrow did not put it that way. "Bates is right," he said to himself. "Tomlinson has something on his chest. By jingo, this affair is a one-er an' no mistake!" At any rate, local talent had no intention of kowtowing too deeply before the majesty of the "Yard," for the Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department himself could have achieved no more in the time than Police Constable Farrow.
There was no kowtowing whatever. And when I survey my fellow applicants I hardly think I shall be entirely eclipsed. What is your opinion?" She smiled and said: "No, you will not be eclipsed." He put his arm around her and said: "Now, Hanka, you must go back I can endure it all as long as you are in town, but when you go away it will look very dark for me!
Before each wrestling-match commences, the 'geogee, or 'judge, who superintends it, shouts out the names and exploits of the contenders, who, after kowtowing very ceremoniously to one another, rise to the preliminary attitude. At a signal from the judge the combatants commence.
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