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Definition of Kowtowed
1. kowtow [v] - See also: kowtow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kowtowed
Literary usage of Kowtowed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of by John Otway Percy Bland, E. Backhouse (1912)
"She sent Major-domo Li Lien-ying to request the Emperor's presence; he came in
his chair, alighting at the outer gate and kowtowed to the Empress, ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"Later we ladies were invited into the room where the Chinese all kowtowed.
What now were these wonderful gifts before which these men and women of rank and ..."
3. Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors by Walter Hamilton (1887)
"I hastened to defer to them ; When talking, I said " Sir " to them ; And all my
early conduct was remarkably polite, I bowed to them, kowtowed to them, ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"The great gates were thrown open and there in the gateway the female members of
the family knelt and kowtowed as the chair passed by. ..."
5. Old China and Young America by Sarah Pike Conger (1913)
"She kowtowed and said, "I never can repay you, but I will give to you my oldest
... The eldest daughter was presented and kowtowed to Wu-tang and called him ..."
6. The East of Asia Magazine (1903)
"Neuhof, who was the entrepreneur o( the I )utch Mission, and who, with his fellows
had "kowtowed" when and where it was expected of them, ..."
7. China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of by J. O. P. Bland, E Backhouse (1911)
"She sent Major-domo Li Lien-ying to request the Emperor's presence; he came in
his chair, alighting at the outer gate and kowtowed to the Empress, ..."
8. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"... as Mrs. Claxton sometimes thought, where a thousand men hung on his will for
a livelihood, where the doctor kowtowed to him. and where the minister ..."
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