| 单词 | genuflection |
| 例句 | Watching Bradford and Grohl reminisce and rummage through her well-kept vinyl record collection is a more intimate and revealing experience than another genuflection before Cheap Trick. ‘Sonic Highways’: Dave Grohl’s busy but beautiful road trip Visitor centers were built, becoming not just the gateways to major historical homes, but, at times, their rivals, offering new expositions and elaborate genuflections to contemporary tastes. Museum Review: Tracing Southern History From the Bottom Up 2011-08-05T18:12:02Z That song choice suggested a genuflection; an acknowledgment of influence, if not a pledge of allegiance. Review: Galactic, Paying Tribute to New Orleans and Its Sounds 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z It is an alm or genuflection; a gesture of humility to the tippee designed to recognize and rehabilitate the degrading nature of their work, and also to connect with them spiritually. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z There was some Coltrane genuflection in “Rain Ballad,” which borrowed the simmering rubato of “After the Rain,” along with some harmonic shading from “Naima.” Music Review: Azar Lawrence Quintet at Jazz Standard - Review 2011-12-15T23:04:44Z He may have made the connection most explicit on “New Grass,” from 1968, a hard shot of pop-funk that feels like both a strange genuflection to the mainstream and a moment of beautiful, absurd catharsis. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The 2017 edition of Cannes is shaping up to provide its usual cocktail of white-hot star power and genuflection at the altar of art cinema. Sofia Coppola to Michael Haneke: the movies and directors most likely to make it to Cannes 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z There was room for his brand of mischief in the encores, which featured a gleefully committed Bad Brains cover and a more sardonic genuflection to George Jones. Music Review: Tomahawk at the Best Buy Theater 2013-06-04T21:41:58Z Times theater critic Charles McNulty says it provides reason for genuflection. Essential Arts & Culture: Parsing Measure S, 'Fun Home' inspires genuflection, SCI-Arc goes to Mexico 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Well, here’s a cockeyed salute, then, a moment of dazzled mental genuflection for a comic who, every once in a while, felt like the most alive human being on the planet. Books of The Times: James Sullivan on George Carlin?s Life: ?Seven Dirty Words? 2010-07-08T22:02:00Z Streep sharing a name with her character is a fourth-wall-breaking genuflection to her demigoddess presence, which might alone persuade us that it was appropriate to revive this story. “Big Little Lies” Season 2, Reviewed: Meryl, Meryl, Meryl 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z A segment of folk songs arranged by members of the choir included “Shenandoah,” a nod to America, segueing into “Waltzing Matilda,” a genuflection to Australia. Music Review: Australian Voices Focuses on Music From Home 2013-06-27T20:13:38Z But the album is also a genuflection, featuring three songs associated with Ms. Ashby, including the title track. Brandee Younger, a Harpist Finding Her Way to Jazz 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Pay close attention to appreciate the artful genuflection to classics like "Excalibur." "Army of the Dead" is what happens when desperation meets a thrilling zombie conflagration 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Even in its repurposed sections, this book pulses with life, yet that particular defense of O’Neill feels of another time: a genuflection before the great artist. Review: ‘By Women Possessed,’ a Remix of a Flawed Eugene O’Neill 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z “It’s gracious. It makes a genuflection in the direction of Biden and America without actually giving anything away.” Biden and Xi, meeting in Silicon Valley, promise to work to avoid U.S.-China conflict 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z For years, she has been jacuzzi-soaking her ballads in pop-rock Americana and Hollywood lore, crowding her lyric sheet with references and interpolations, casual nods and heady genuflections to the coolest songs ever written. Review | Lana Del Rey is a realist — and reality is weird 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z But Adam didn’t do rhyme and meter, for one thing — too much like mandatory genuflection in church, he once remarked. Working with the poet who told us to ‘Praise the Mutilated World’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Democrats' genuflections to their corporate donors — whether breaking a strike, authorizing corporate giveaways, or stalling a $15 minimum wage — have been handing conservatives myriad opportunities to court working-class voters. What Democrats should have learned from the midterms: It's time to fight for justice 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Nothing reveals Trump’s hold on the party quite like the genuflections and contortions of those seeking his political approval. Mar-a-Lago Machine: Trump as a Modern-Day Party Boss 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Right-wing extremists who attempt to subvert democracy should be met with a firm stand, not a shrug and genuflection toward the ballot box. Legislators should return state’s money for election-fraud junket 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z “Strong again” equals “great again” equals genuflection before Trump. Opinion | There’s a New Wizard of Oz. It’s Donald Trump. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Trump is lurching and howling and lashing, to a point where Jeb Bush’s son George P. Bush has been terrified into abject genuflection. Opinion | Donald Trump Is Starving 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Williams told Salon that the speedy response from Republican governors was best understood as a genuflection to their business constituencies. How the business lobby created the "labor shortage" myth — and GOP used it to slash benefits 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Democracy's genuflection to plutocracy isn't hard to detect in convergences among participants in Sonnenfeld's meeting. Corporate capital and Trump's coup: Will business elites take a stand? 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z From the standpoint of the Democratic Party, the visit was a genuflection to a blatant Trump campaign effort to woo Latino voters in the United States. As the world congratulates Biden, Mexico's president opts to wait. Critics call it a diplomatic blunder 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z This could be dismissed as a rote genuflection to the revered Scalia, but her opinions and scholarship suggest she means it. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z The Times’ special NFL Preview special section was marked by its metaphorical genuflection at wealth’s excesses reminiscent perhaps only of Ancient Rome. Letters: Enjoy the ride on the Plaschke roller coaster 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z The genuflections to Mao, who remains revered by the Communist Party, reflect Mr. Xi’s desire to use the campaign to help fireproof his and the party’s power against possible turbulence. ‘Drive the Blade In’: Xi Shakes Up China’s Law-and-Order Forces 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z There were the paeans from plebeian basketball fans and politicians alike, almost as if public genuflection to a sports idol were American dogma. Opinion | The worst way to handle the Kobe Bryant rape case 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z No victory speech is complete without thanks for the coach, physiotherapist, psychologist, chef, stringer, clothing sponsor and a respectful genuflection to their opponent’s counterparts. Gurning lackeys, actors and presidents – tennis is in thrall to players’ box parade | Tim Lewis 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z But allowing the president to choose Darroch’s successor is likely to be a genuflection too far. How will the US-UK relationship evolve with Boris Johnson in No 10? 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z As a group, none of these climate planks harken back to Barack Obama’s “all of the above” genuflection to the enduring political power of fossil fuels. Democrats are seriously tackling the climate crisis: No more half-measures or neoliberal compromises 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Here’s a quiet genuflection posing as a loud stunt. Opinion | After a long, strange trip . . . all your indie faves sound like jam bands now 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z He dutifully avoided references to global warming or democracy promotion and included ritualistic genuflections toward American sovereignty. Opinion | Trump’s pet intellectuals are embarrassing themselves 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Pruitt’s unyielding loyalty to Trump was reflected in a resignation letter Thursday laden with genuflection and references to divine intervention. Embattled EPA chief Scott Pruitt resigns amid scandals 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Congress, its arthritic knees creaky from decades of genuflections at the altar of presidential power, will be a gimpy spectator.” America’s special form of cowardice: Why we never declare war anymore 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Congress, its arthritic knees creaky from decades of genuflections at the altar of presidential power, will be a gimpy spectator. Opinion | Mr. Trump goes to war 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z In kowtowing to Mr. Arpaio, a hero to alt-right racists, the vice president also announced his own contempt for principles higher than reflexive genuflection to anything and anyone favored by President Trump. Opinion | Mike Pence dishonors himself. Again. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Those promises have generated extraordinary genuflection from politicians across North America, and a lot of glowing news coverage, at a moment of heightened scrutiny about Amazon’s market power. Side Benefit to Amazon’s Headquarters Contest: Local Expertise 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z On nuclear weapons and on Syria, the United States has no mechanism for dialogue with Russia at the highest level because Trump is frozen in genuflection to Putin, his own National Security Strategy notwithstanding. Opinion | Year One in Donald Trump’s World 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z The price of being considered included several public genuflections by Romney, one at an upscale New York restaurant where a photographer captured him looking wan and Trump gleeful. A longtime Republican senator says he'll retire, and the White House nervously eyes his likely successor, Mitt Romney 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Catholic readers might recognize that root from the ritual knee-bending of “genuflection.” Etymology of the Moment: ‘kneel’ 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The Hamas statement that emerged on Sunday was replete with genuflections to Egypt, and particularly to its General Intelligence Service for its “generous efforts” and “leadership” as “an expression of Egyptian concern” for Palestinian unity. Hamas Offer Reflects Pressure From Egypt and Fatah 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z If racial injustice is considered to be monolithic and unchanging—omitting the context of individual actions, white and black—the political response tends to be equally rigid: genuflection or rejection. Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Burwell that agencies deserve no genuflection in matters of “deep economic and political significance.” The King and His Court 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z He has forced her into leftward genuflections on everything from trade to national health care. Donald, Hillary and the Bernie factor 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The candidates all delivered some form of genuflection to the state. Trump, Kasich and Cruz make their cases to California GOP: on unity, electability and fish 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Instead, she repeatedly took on Trump, dismissing his contention that America needed to be made great again as she made an emotional genuflection to its exceptionalism. With New York wins, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump aim at November 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z “Musicians don’t retire, you play until you drop dead,” he says, pausing for a mental genuflection to the recent passing of his friend Allen Toussaint. Grammy winner Jon Cleary: 'Music isn't a choice for me – it's a bodily function' 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z It wasn't a law but it surely seemed like some kind of an unofficial mandate: last college basketball season, all general analysis, written or spoken, contained a reference, preferably with genuflection, to Kentucky. Kentucky remains college basketball royalty, but there are plenty of other bluebloods 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Bask in its unabashed genuflection to 1980s game design tropes. Here Are the 15 Best Games of 2014 (So Far) 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Bask in its unabashed genuflection to 1980s games design tropes. Shovel Knight May Be the 8-bit Homage We've Been Waiting For 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z His routine is sprinkled with jokes and jabs, humanizing details and genuflection to local traditions. Again, this is what politicians do. Paul Ryan's Paradox: An 'Idea Man' in a Conventional Campaign Role 2012-08-24T08:05:33Z Indeed, UK Sport, now the subject of so much ministerial genuflection, was among the agencies earmarked for Francis Maude's "bonfire of the quangos" less than two years ago. Why Osborne should pay heed to our Olympics triumph 2012-08-20T19:00:14Z While it isn’t clear how this will work, the phenomenon of taking a knee in genuflection will be a new feature on EA Sports’ video game. Madden NFL ?13 will feature ?Tebowing? 2012-05-21T16:54:02Z “As I infer from this vision,” says the Novice, “an indiscreet fervour in prayers is not pleasing to the blessed Virgin, neither an undisciplined movement in genuflections.” Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z But such genuflections by management seldom work out in the long run, at least with players of questionable leadership skills. On Basketball: Harvey Araton ? Without Walsh, D?Antoni?s Clock Was Ticking 2012-03-14T22:37:08Z Mr. Moore has in the past made his genuflections. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z She rose, and with a deep genuflection turned from the altar, and glided with downcast eyes to his side. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z With respectful salutes and genuflections the Daimio was allowed to pass. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z But Facebook represents a disturbing trend in U.S. capitalism: genuflection to the diversion industry. Please Wait, This Column Is Browsing Friends' Updates 2012-02-02T05:13:48Z If the devil had tasted it for one instant, he would have adored Adam and have made before him thousands of genuflections. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z The adoration413 consists chiefly of offerings of flowers which are brought up hither, and presented with innumerable genuflections, invocations, and exclamations of "Sadoo," which corresponds to the Christian Amen. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z The house was frequented by all the friends of the host, who were obsequiously effusive in smiles, flattery, and genuflections. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Suddenly she became aware of the richness of his attire as he took his place in the centre, amid the bows and genuflections of the spectators. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Some of them bring their children, bedizened like dolls, and mimicking mamma's gestures and genuflection in a manner more provoking to sadness than to satire. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z There was a funeral cortege, and the mourners sitting by the bier; while the priests, with their incantations, mummeries and ceremonies, and genuflections, just by. From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. 2011-12-03T03:00:10.397Z Thanks to a height restriction that keeps the skyline in a sort of humble genuflection to the Washington National Cathedral, the city’s highest structure, there are no 100th-floor views. In the nation?s capital, underground is where it?s at 2011-11-28T01:03:00Z Prayer with them is homage which the worshippers are required to offer five times a day, according to a fixed ritual, with prescribed genuflections, prostrations, and touching of the ground with the forehead. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z There was time for nothing before dinner except a few moments’ secret genuflection at the shrine of a rose-pink idol. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z In this manner I was conducted before his majesty, after having made about an hundred and forty genuflections. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z He made a profound genuflection and stood with bent head awaiting permission to speak. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z But Christ's mass was most simple, without the pageantry of vestments, genuflections, chants and other ceremonies. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z Generally all she did was dip her fingers in the holy water and make her three genuflections. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z But so were those from debutantes from England, Alabama and Arkansas, though the last’s bouquet of pink and red roses touched with silver leaves fluttered, hinting at a tremor of fear that the genuflection induced. City Room: Nocturnalist|Dipping With the Debs 2010-12-30T15:29:28Z It is at school that young England begins to learn to make genuflections before the Golden Calf. English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters 2010-12-20T17:12:04.833Z “It all comes of having such horrible wild horses,” said Mrs Lingon, whose conveyance was a basket carriage, drawn by a punchy cob, given to meditation and genuflections. By Birth a Lady Every man present, save the armed guards and the two Englishmen, dropped to his knees and bent his forehead to the ground, but Mowbray and Roger, not accustomed to genuflection, contented themselves with bowing deeply. The Great Mogul Oft and anon during my weary sojourn in that far land of snow and ice have I pictured to myself the hour when we should stand face to face and exchange genuflections and 49 greetings. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager They are all about—prostrating themselves with many genuflections and murmurings—and we step on them as little as possible, but they are a good deal in the way. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Protestants had only been expected to make certain genuflections on approaching and on leaving the pontifical presence. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 According to the tenets of Islam, if a worshipper were to perform his genuflections on the bare ground they would be of no effect, because the ground might certainly be assumed to be ceremonially polluted. Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches He grovelled again, and shuffled off, turning at every few steps to make a genuflection. The Red Symbol He was refused an audience with the Mongol general unless he would perform the ko-tou, or three genuflections, an act which he and his followers refused as an idolatrous ceremony which would scandalize all Christendom. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality As they passed this ground, each of the girls, Naida leading, made a strange little bowing, gliding genuflection, and Kirby wondered. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 But alas, you can’t codify genuflections, nor yet a handshake. 123The next degree in the imperial advent was the imperial courier, who proclaimed from a curveting steed what everybody suspected. The Missourian Or that the proper genuflections before them are of more importance than the mere bringing out of a bit of truth which might save an accused man’s life. The Bondboy According to the quantity or quality of his tribute, each tenant, after having received a word of blame or praise from the cellarer, withdrew with a slight genuflection. A Romance of the West Indies Away with your beads and mummeries, your paternosters and genuflections! Dreamers of the Ghetto Your sickening verbal genuflections beautifully evade the details—the house of my friend raided at night; he, himself, unarmed, shot down in cold blood; his house gutted! The Affair of the Brains Our formal bow is simply the modification of a servile prostration, and the graceful bow of a lady of society is but the last remaining trace of a genuflection. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society The believer, obeying the summons, washes, enters the mosque, and repeats from four to eight short prayers, with genuflections between each. In the Tail of the Peacock The priest went to the switch-board, and, after a series of genuflections and the mumbling of what might have been an invocation, he turned a lever. The Doomsman Having spread the table, they retired backward, not forgetting to repeat the genuflections as performed on their approach. The Panchronicon Again the ten boys repeated their song and dance and their castanets, and with a rapid genuflection disappeared. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia We get such impressions when Kipling has, for the moment, forgotten the need to make a genuflection 186 towards the Absolute and Everlasting Chutney, and is a man and brother delighting in his craft. Waiting for Daylight The parrot went on bowing, making a short pause between each genuflection, as if it waited for a signal to be given that called into play its imitative faculty. Tongues of Conscience He stepped to the switch-board, and, after going through a series of genuflections, accompanied by an undertone of carelessly gabbled ritual, he depressed a lever. The Doomsman The deprecatory respect implied by his genuflections could scarcely be computed. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim At the ruined altar ghostly priests officiated, passing quietly from side to side, with bows and genuflections. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia The old woman bobbed up, making an old-time genuflection. Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands By means of further genuflections, supplications, and wearisome persistency, Charles de Buonaparte at last obtained favor not only for Lucien, but for Joseph also. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) He felt out of place and somewhat ridiculous; he was conscious that he performed his genuflections and posturing awkwardly, and there were all these women watching him. The Doomsman Any occupation is interrupted for the prayers and prescribed genuflections. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals It was a Benediction of nature, a genuflection of trees and flowers, singing in the wind, incensing with their perfume the sacred Bread which shone on high, in the flaming custody of the planet. En Route You may dress him in lawn sleeves and a mitre, and make pagan genuflections before his throne, but he is only a worm for all that.' The Bishop's Secret When the various genuflections and phrases of ceremonial greeting were at last accomplished, the old artist broke forth, "Well, well, son Tatsu, how many paintings in all this time?" The Dragon Painter The High Priestess rose from her genuflection and Forrester followed suit. Pagan Passions The thousand ceremonials, the carelessly recited prayers, the perfunctory invocations, the prescribed signs, crosses and genuflections before the rudely painted icons, appeared to him as hollow mockeries, and soon the place seemed redolent with deceit. Rabbi and Priest A Story I took him through the village, where he met salaams and genuflections enough; and was stared at by the men, and blessed by the women, and received the mute adoration of the children. My New Curate The first is their worship of wealth, their devout genuflection before it as the sole choicest gift which fate can bestow, and the second is their merciless and metallic snobbery. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 Again the bell rings and the monks pass before the altar with genuflections and sink in their stalls in prayer, while a male chorus chants the Office of the Benediction. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison So the news went round that strangers had come uninvited to the wedding-feast, and men began to frown and women to whisper, while the dancer lost interest in her own tinklings and genuflections. The Golden Silence A bell warns them when to make the needful genuflections and crosses. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. She clapped her hands together and the curtains at her right bellied out, parted and a man stepped before her, bending deeply in genuflection. Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure The triple genuflection represents the Trinity of Persons, not a difference of adoration. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province It was early morn, and they were making solemn genuflections toward the bright sun. The Adventures of Kathlyn "There may be a language of genuflections, but I do not know it." Beatrix of Clare The priest had gone, and the little congregation, with last genuflections, were hurrying out of the church. The Halo The avidity of some for the meats presented them, and the indifference of others in the genuflections which they multiply and the prayers which they recite, often strip the festival of its solemnity. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy A rak’áh is the recitation of specifically revealed verses accompanied by a prescribed set of genuflections and other movements. The Kitáb-i-Aqdas All was quietness, the general expression of sympathy and respect being permitted to find vent only in excessive gesticulation and genuflection. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 When the Pope is about to make the first genuflection, the choir begins to sing the improperii, the sentiments of which, and the chant composed by Palestrina 92, are admirably adapted to the pathetic ceremony. The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Fine residences, splendid establishments, brilliant uniforms, much bowing and many genuflections, plenty of parade and glitter—everything for show. The Cab of the Sleeping Horse Corinne, before she seated herself in it, made a genuflection on the first step, agreeably to the etiquette required in this august assembly. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy They were in their best attire, and fresh from their ablutions, and their concerted genuflections, the subdued murmur of their many voices, and the general solemnity of their demeanor, rendered the whole service most impressive. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 They estimate worth by the beauty of the face and form, by the cost of dress and the genuflections of the body. The Christian Home Mechanically she dipped her fingers into the holy water, she made her genuflection to the altar, and knelt down in one of the back rows. The Marriage of William Ashe It would seem that such a genuflection must be, of necessity, ridiculous. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 So much Percy saw as he performed the first genuflection. Lord of the World The structure of society demanded the constant observance of the forms of etiquette; this, with its numberless genuflections and strikings of the head on the floor, always demanded time. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Yet I make this sentimental genuflection before the nun and the charwoman. Youth and the Bright Medusa Then, by a strange association of ideas, they both stopped before the sacred images, made genuflections, and prayed to God to send them children. Best Russian Short Stories The dog pushed its weight and movement toward its right side the way a boy might sink into genuflection when the wind is knocked out of him and then it slunk off the sidewalk. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Then he invites me to his daughter's wedding; he prays, makes a genuflection, and says: "I still preserve religious feeling; I am a believer." Note-Book of Anton Chekhov First a gypsy boy with long black curls and continuous genuflections, and a fiddle, and doleful complaints that he could not play it, and that it was the fiddle's fault. A Perilous Secret With what grace he was imitating the mannerisms and genuflections of the chief priest!… Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel They prayed together whenever possible, Anazeh keeping count of their genuflections. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace The Pilgrim acknowledged her claim to it by a low genuflection. Ivanhoe In our prostrations and genuflections in the temple we do not discriminate against the idols we ourselves have manufactured; on the contrary, them we worship with peculiar gusto. The Grain of Dust Halting, he bowed with an exaggerated genuflection and flourish of his free hand to Miss Madden, the while he flashed at her a glance at once of challenge and of deprecation. The Market-Place Newman watched their genuflections and gyrations with a grim, still enmity; they seemed aids and abettors of Madame de Cintre's desertion; they were mouthing and droning out their triumph. The American Even devotional genuflections are severe on that garment, which must have often needed Hannah's care. The Woman's Bible The incense may be burned before a tribune, a dictator, or a Caesar, there are always the same flattering genuflections, the same cringing. The Court of the Empress Josephine All the great uses of a noble life brought down to petty observances and childish mummeries, prayers and genuflections before waxen relics and dressed-up madonnas. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Two priests only, clothed in fine linen, served the Mass: ornaments of candles, incense, prostration, genuflection, there were none. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett It was Father Ricardo, and as he made the genuflection, it was seen that his face was irradiated by profound emotion. The Heavenly Twins And as he passed the open door of the lighted room he saluted the corpse with another genuflection. L'Assommoir When I had finished my humble genuflections, the angelic voices sounded together, like a chorus from an ancient scripture. Autobiography of a Yogi He looked inexpressible things, and taking her hand, held it to his breast; and then, making a slight genuflection, pressed it to his lips. Tom Cringle's Log She was afraid to pose as a saint worthy of genuflection. We Can't Have Everything Directly after entrance reverential genuflections and holy-water dipping are indulged in. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston It was often very effective, producing shouts and groans and genuflections among the audience at large, and terrible convulsions among the more nervous and excitable. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 The Liturgy was to be revised, and the outstanding accompaniments of ritual—genuflection, the sign of the Cross, the wearing of the surplice—were not to be enforced. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 At this moment the steward appeared in the chamber, and, after a long genuflection, asked his lady's pleasure concerning the guard of Norman soldiers who remained without the mansion. The Betrothed "I am what Allah made me!" answered King, and then, for the sake of the impression, he went through the outward form of muslim prayer, spreading a mat and omitting none of the genuflections. King of the Khyber Rifles "And I too," said the Cardinal, extending his hand, and kindly raising Aubrey before he could complete his formal genuflection, "You have not wasted much of your time in Florence!" The Master-Christian The patent of divinity was in the genuflections of a nation. Imperial Purple All the movements, gestures, and genuflections of the savages were plainly seen by the bee-hunter. Oak Openings But Prince Louis of Baden whispered in his ear, "The Spanish genuflection—quick! bend the knee!" Prince Eugene and His Times "I am an old camel, familiar with genuflections," he exclaims. Balzac And Esterhazy, with the mien and gait of a culprit, carne into her presence with a bow that was almost a genuflection. Joseph II. and His Court Despite their genuflections they were all as men who knew, and never forgot, that on them was conferred the right to keep on their head-covering in the presence of their King. The Garden of Allah "Fairest Leoline! one word from such lips would be enough to repay me, had I done a thousandfold more," responded Norman, laying his hand on his heart, with another deep genuflection. The Midnight Queen "Never mind the Spanish genuflection," interposed he, with a good- natured laugh. Prince Eugene and His Times Certain parishes were predominantly Puritan; certain ministers were known to have leanings away from surplices and genuflections and to hold that Archbishop Laud was some kin to the Pope. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings You have not learned all that art has to teach you, but you are safer practitioners to-day than were many of those whose names we hardly mention without a genuflection. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 The little duke has too many genuflections in his moral being and the poet has too few,—indeed, I might say, none at all. Modeste Mignon Here Sir Norman, whose spine seemed in danger of becoming the shape of a rainbow, in excess of good breeding, made another genuflection before the queen, with his hand over the region of his heart. The Midnight Queen A bend of the body and a genuflection were the appropriate answer of the Ethiopian to these observations. The Talisman |
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