Submissively Sentence Examples

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  • Shah Rukh submissively followed in his train.

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  • They had fought for freedom in order to liberate themselves not only from the yoke of Napoleon but also from the tyranny of their own governments, whereas he expected them to remain submissively under the patriarchal institutions which their native rulers imposed on them.

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  • For the moment the Jews were cowed, and next day they went submissively to greet the troops coming from Caesarea.

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  • As the minister of an ambitious and magnificent king, Colbert was under the hard necessity of sacrificing everything to the wars in Flanders and the pomp of Versailles a gulf which swallowed up all the countrys wealth;and, amid a society which might be supposed submissively docile to the wishes of Louis XIV., he had to retain the most absurd financial laws, making the burden of taxation weigh heaviest on those who had no other resources than their labor, whilst landed property escaped free of charge.

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  • Rostov submissively unbent the corner of his card and, instead of the six thousand he had intended, carefully wrote twenty-one.

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  • Princess Mary shrugged her shoulders but took the glass submissively and calling the nurse began giving the medicine.

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  • Anatole glanced round at his sister and rose submissively, ready to follow Pierre.

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  • The young man in his clattering chains stepped clumsily to the spot indicated, holding away with one finger the coat collar which chafed his neck, turned his long neck twice this way and that, sighed, and submissively folded before him his thin hands, unused to work.

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  • Every dog in a pack has a pack mate that is either above or below him in the pecking order, and he'll react submissively to those above him, and dominant to those below him.

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  • And he fell back into that artificial realm of imaginary greatness, and again--as a horse walking a treadmill thinks it is doing something for itself--he submissively fulfilled the cruel, sad, gloomy, and inhuman role predestined for him.

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