Even their otherwise excellent documentary on soul music was marred by the rather repellent theory that Berry Gordy, the brains behind glorious Motown was an 'Uncle Tom'who kotowed to white people and ignored the burning racial issues of the time. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Chou Jui's wife then kotowed and rose to her feet. ❋ Xueqin Cao (N/A)
Yün-nan people, at the time of the dual decease in recent Chinese history, did homage, and kotowed, recognizing him as the new emperor. ❋ Edwin John Dingle (1926)
Later we ladies were invited into the room, where the Chinese all kotowed. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The great gates were thrown open and there in the gateway the female members of the family knelt and kotowed as the chair passed by. ❋ Unknown (1909)
How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them! ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)
He kotowed several times on the way out of the parlour, conscious, however, of the searching eyes of the man who had balked him. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)
In Mexico he ate the ardent chile from the tender hand of his Guadalupita, and later on he was on time at a five o'clock family tea party in Japan, or he might have kotowed pidgin-love to a trusting maid in a China town of fair Cathay. ❋ Unknown (1893)
_They_ both kotowed as they switched off to the baggage-room, the Ring Master bowing even lower than my roommate. ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)
Bank reached the hall floor the President of the Clearing House -- the most distinguished man in the Street and one to whom Breen kotowed with genuflections equalling those of Parkins -- accompanied by his daughter and followed by the senior partner of Breen & Co., were making their way to the front door. ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)
I remembered their arriving just before dark, and their weapons dispelled my fears, for they came armed with bamboo jugs of Murwa beer, and were very drunk and very amiable: they grinned, nodded, kotowed, lolled out their tongues, and scratched their ears in the most seductive manner, then held out their jugs, and besought me by words and gestures to drink and be happy too. ❋ Unknown (1864)
A Lama from the adjacent temple accompanied us, and I found my people affecting great solemnity as they approached its sacred bounds; they incessantly muttered "Om mani," etc., kotowed to trees and stones, and hung bits of rag on the bushes. ❋ Unknown (1864)
At Pemiongchi a superior Lama met me with another overwhelming present: he was a most jolly fat monk, shaven and girdled, and dressed in a scarlet gown: my Lepchas kotowed to him, and he blessed them by the laying on of hands. ❋ Unknown (1864)
Their customary mode of saluting one another is to hold out the tongue, grin, nod, and scratch their ear; but this method entails so much ridicule in the low countries, that they do not practise it to Nepalese or strangers; most of them when meeting me, on the contrary, raised their hands to their eyes, threw themselves on the ground, and kotowed most decorously, bumping their foreheads three times on the ground; even the women did this on several occasions. ❋ Unknown (1864)
Your ladyship sent Ts’ai Ko again yesterday to bring me presents, but my grandson kotowed at the door, with his face turned towards the upper quarters.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
Your ladyship sent Ts'ai Ko again yesterday to bring me presents, but my grandson _kotowed_ at the door, with his face turned towards the upper quarters. " ❋ Xueqin Cao (N/A)
