Then the beasts
bowed down to the Lion as their King, and he promised to come back and rule over them as soon as Dorothy was safely on her way to Kansas.
The man was still silent, but suddenly he bowed down almost to the ground, touching it with his finger.
The man stood still, and again suddenly bowed down, touching the ground with his finger.
But the louder he spoke, the lower she dropped her once proud and gay, now shame-stricken head, and she
bowed down and sank from the sofa where she was sitting, down on the floor, at his feet; she would have fallen on the carpet if he had not held her.
She thanked her father warmly for yielding to her wishes, and, seeing him still
bowed down with grief, told him that she hoped he would never repent having allowed her to marry the Sultan.
In the midst of these tokens of prostrated energy and dismissed hope, the master of the Counting-house stood idle in his usual place, with his arms crossed on the desk, and his head bowed down upon them.
In another minute, Mr Pancks's arms were on the desk, and Mr Pancks's head was bowed down upon them; and for some time they remained in these attitudes, idle and silent, with the width of the little room between them.
Earlier in life, Hester had vainly imagined that she herself might be the destined prophetess, but had long since recognised the impossibility that any mission of divine and mysterious truth should be confided to a woman stained with sin,
bowed down with shame, or even burdened with a life-long sorrow.
Models of it were worn on breasts from which the Cross was discarded, and it was
bowed down to and believed in where the Cross was denied.
When the King came to be
bowed down with the weight of years he spoke to his son, and said that now it was time for him to look out for a fitting match for himself, for he did not know how long he might last now, and he would like to see him married before he died.
'Well,' said the old gentleman, at last, 'I cannot pretend not to be simply
bowed down. I rose this morning what the world calls a happy man - happy, at least, in a son of whom I thought I could be reasonably proud - '
Tinsley,
bowed down with the laurels of both hemispheres, raises himself to yet nobler heights in his capacity of a devoted chef.