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There was no reply to his knock, and he tapped again, and then timidly, and cringing subserviently, opened the door and stepped inside. He withdrew himself at once and stared stupidly at me, shaking his head. "'She is not there, he said. He stood for a moment gazing blankly through the open door, and then hastened toward the dining-room.
"But what good will all this do you and me, Baas?" asked the Boer subserviently. Bough spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders.
"That is a pity; our choir is so excellent two violins, a viola, clarinet, 'cello, double bass, the trumpets and drums, and of course the organ. Our organist himself " At that moment a young clergyman came into the room, making apologies and bowing subserviently. "Ah, this is Mr. Golightly the-h'm Hon. and Rev. Mr. Storm. You will take charge of Mr.
The oak that assumes an attitude of pride and self-importance; the oak that approaches a superior neighbour with an air of humility and abasement, listening subserviently to his commands. The shrinking oak in dread of an enemy, and the oak prepared to offer a stout resistance. The hopeful oak in the prime of life, and the oak that totters in desolate and crabbed old age.
But we have entered a broader daylight now, when the sun of high heaven has crowned our structure with the flower of brain, like him to scatter mists, and penetrate darkness, and shoot from end to end of earth; and must we still be grinning subserviently to ancient usages and stale forms, because of a baggage that it is, woe to us! too true, we cannot cut ourselves loose from?
"And yesterday, only yesterday, he would have saluted me subserviently!" The windows of the Élysée facing the street were still lighted up and Vaudrey thought that shadows were moving behind the white curtains. "The President has not yet retired! He has probably received Granet! And Warcolier! Warcolier!"
Now do be careful of yourself, pray do, and consider what jeopardy you might have stood in. Good night! bless you! Hugh truckled before the hidden meaning of these words as much as such a being could, and crept out of the door so submissively and subserviently with an air, in short, so different from that with which he had entered that his patron on being left alone, smiled more than ever.
I except' here his eye swept the back benches 'our friend and companion Beetle, from whom, now as always, I demand an absolutely literal translation. The form laughed subserviently. 'Spare his blushes! Beetle charms us first. Beetle stood up, confident in the possession of a guaranteed construe, left behind by M'Turk, who had that day gone into the sick-house with a cold.
III. The last set of actors in this pitiful tragedy are the subserviently wicked elders. The narrative sets their slavish compliance in a strong light. It puts emphasis on the tie between them and Naboth, in that they 'dwelt in his city, and so should have had neighbourly feeling.
Joshua Golightly was a little man with a hook nose, small keen eyes, scanty hair, and a voice that was something between a whisper and a whistle. He bowed subserviently, and made meek little speeches. "I do trust you will not be disappointed with our church and service. We do all we can to make them worthy of our people."
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