All 10 Uses of
homage
in
Bleak House
- Though I willingly confess," here he softened in a moment, "that Lady Dedlock is the most accomplished lady in the world, to whom I would do any homage that a plain gentleman, and no baronet with a head seven hundred years thick, may.†
Chpt 7-9
- "The airs the fellow gives himself!" said my informant, shaking her head at old Mr. Turveydrop with speechless indignation as he drew on his tight gloves, of course unconscious of the homage she was rendering.†
Chpt 13-15
- I come down here, for instance, and I find a mighty potentate exacting homage.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- I say 'Mighty potentate, here IS my homage!†
Chpt 16-18
- The cousins, even those older cousins who were paralysed when Sir Leicester married her, do her feudal homage; and the Honourable Bob Stables daily repeats to some chosen person between breakfast and lunch his favourite original remark, that she is the best-groomed woman in the whole stud.†
Chpt 28-30
- G. B. is induced to do so at a considerable extra expense in consequence of a wish which has been very generally expressed at the bar by a large body of respectable individuals and in homage to a late melancholy event which has aroused so much sensation.†
Chpt 31-33
- Mr. Tulkinghorn with his usual leisurely ease advances, renders his passing homage to my Lady, shakes Sir Leicester's hand, and subsides into the chair proper to him when he has anything to communicate, on the opposite side of the Baronet's little newspaper-table.†
Chpt 40-42
- A bow of homage to Sir Leicester, a bow of gallantry to Volumnia, and a bow of recognition to the debilitated Cousin, to whom it airily says, "You are a swell about town, and you know me, and I know you."†
Chpt 52-54
- And if your highest homage and respect had not been his already—which I know they are—they would have been his, I think, on this assurance and in the feeling it would have awakened in you towards him for my sake.†
Chpt 61-63
- Then do the swains appear with tea, with lemonade, with sandwiches, with homage.†
Chpt 66-67
Definition:
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(homage) respect or loyalty; or something done to show respect or loyalty