Bow-down Sentence Examples

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  • May desert tribes bow down before him and his enemies lick the dust!

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  • Is it to bow down his head like a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?

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  • I would never stoop to bow down to a god of stone or an idol of wood or jewels!

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  • I would never stoop to bow down to a god of stone or an idol of wood or jewels !

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  • The creature that refused to bow down to the Dark One was not going to allow itself to become blood-dependent upon a mate of human origin.

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  • The people kiss the cross and bow down to it; and ever after Christ's spirit is enshrined in it; it cures disease, drives off demons, and wards off wind and hail.

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  • Thus in the second commandment, "Thou shalt not bow down to any visible form," &c., is a sort of explanatory addition to the precept "Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image."

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  • Did none of theta bow down before holy fathers and saintly confessors to obtain absolution?

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  • Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

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  • May desert tribes bow down before him and his enemies lick the dust !

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