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  • An homage to your beauty.†   (source)
  • To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God.†   (source)
  • Buddhism as it is practiced in the high reaches of the Khumbu has a distinctly animistic flavor: the Sherpas venerate a tangled melange of deities and spirits who are said to inhabit the canyons, rivers, and per homage to this ensemble of peaks of the region.†   (source)
  • We have come to pay homage to you.†   (source)
  • He spent most of the time staring at the slowly rotating twenty-meter, steel and polychrome sculpture which might have been of the legendary Shrike... and might have been an abstract homage to every edged weapon ever invented.†   (source)
  • He'd seen it more than any other film, always citing the nods to Hitchcock, the many witty homages—though he'd never made clear his love of Hitchcock in the first place.†   (source)
  • "Dean Wormer" (as Jai dubbed him in homage to the film Animal House) was concerned that Disney would suck all this "intellectual property" out of my head that rightfully belonged to the university.†   (source)
  • From that time on, special homage was paid to him, and most of our many compatriots who traveled to France went out of their way to see him.†   (source)
  • "I have a lot of affection for Don Chiche," Trujillo says, obviously enjoying the homage.†   (source)
  • He basked in their homage as Judy, with Moody's knowledge, drew me off to a bedroom so that I could type the letter.†   (source)
  • A mesmerizing reinterpretation of the dance fads of the '60s—as seen through the Kodachromic lens of the author's childhood in NYC's Barrio—this piece is a riveting and joyful homage to the scratchy, catchy, and soon-to-be-lost tracks of the decade.†   (source)
  • Despite hard work and the stigma of belonging to the borrowing Passmore family, Johnnie had commanded the homage of more than one heart.†   (source)
  • So I told Hassan the story while he was reading the book and then he decided to start saying fug as an homage to Mailer—and because you can say it in class without getting in trouble.†   (source)
  • Lak bowed his head and paid homage to the spirit of the bear.†   (source)
  • Many tourists were there too, paying homage to the great miracles of this Dajai-like place.†   (source)
  • As the son of Macon Dead the first, he paid homage to his own father's life and death by loving what that father had loved: property, good solid property, the bountifulness of life.†   (source)
  • We both laughed until we cried and decided to go down to the basement and look for the remains of poor old Barrabas, sovereign in his indefinable biological constitution, despite the passage of time and so much neglect, and to put him where my grandfather had laid him half a century earlier in homage to the woman he loved most in his life.†   (source)
  • Then up jumped a young French doctor with a red mustache and shouted, We're here to cure dying people, not to pay homage to President Carter!†   (source)
  • The entire line of beasts bowed their heads in homage to the boy.†   (source)
  • You come here to pay homage with your innocent and powerful hearts….†   (source)
  • Oh, and how rich and poor, black and white, weak and powerful, young and old, all came to pay their homage-many realizing the Leader's worth and their loss only now with his passing.†   (source)
  • Then, one by one, the editors of the New York Times came by to pay my mother homage, to tell her what a fine son she had raised, and how proud they were of me, and for her.†   (source)
  • With the death of Franklin on April 17, Philadelphia staged the greatest public homage that had ever been given a deceased American.†   (source)
  • I realize then that if someone could see us, it might look like I am paying him homage.†   (source)
  • But had it been possible to choose an ancestor, she would have chosen Nat Taggart, in voluntary homage and with all of her gratitude.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was a homage to beauty, perhaps it was much, much more.†   (source)
  • Just let Elesin fulfil his oath and we will retire home and pay homage to our King.†   (source)
  • His name, Tradd Prioleau St. Croix, paid tongue-twisting homage to two hundred years of Carolina history.†   (source)
  • At the age of seventy-three, I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression, and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness.†   (source)
  • The moonlit clouds gleamed like spun sugar, coaxed into a ghostly homage of Halloween shapes that drifted serenely above the campus.†   (source)
  • In homage to that, I keep the images compressed in tiny little squares, like the works of Oderisi da Gubbio or Franco Bolognese, like little postage stamps.†   (source)
  • Kessell!" paying homage to the wizard with a fanatical devotion that brought shivers to the human witnesses to the spectacle.†   (source)
  • True to my homage to the Almighty, I blew on some duck calls and then preached from the Bible.†   (source)
  • There were still nights when Derek would come back home after feeding on another gift from Vivienne or from some other vampire paying him homage.†   (source)
  • Two wore ordinary Western clothing, but the others, eleven in all, wore black tactical suits and white athletic shoes, a sartorial homage to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.†   (source)
  • Forever from then on, Alvin would see some quiet man or woman, little noticed and hardly thought of by others, who nevertheless went a-weaving through the life of village, town, or city, binding up, holding on, and Alvin would silently salute such folk, and do them homage in his heart, because he knew how their lives kept the cloth strong, the weave tight.†   (source)
  • I will however pay it so much homage.†   (source)
  • Homage to devoted hours in pursuit of a noble scientific goal which just this day has seen the light of triumph.†   (source)
  • The great had had no homage, the small had had no comfort, so they crowded him in the dinner queue.†   (source)
  • Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.   (source)
    homage = respect
  • Sufi Mohammad was sitting on the stage with a long queue of people waiting to pay homage.†   (source)
  • An idea came to him, and he said with a small smile, "Nay, it is I who pay homage to you.†   (source)
  • He did not pray but paid homage to the cathedral itself.†   (source)
  • As one, the warriors knelt, baring their heads in homage to Ajihad.†   (source)
  • I can't go to the Valley of Tuhan and pay him homage.†   (source)
  • It was as if they were paying homage to this green lake.†   (source)
  • The echoes of the homage had not died down when Ursula knocked at the workshop door.†   (source)
  • You've come to pay me homage, have you not?"†   (source)
  • We all so wanted to pay homage to Queen Jeyne.†   (source)
  • They sailed home to do homage to their king.†   (source)
  • Every crow in the Seven Kingdoms should pay homage to you, Father.†   (source)
  • He paid homage to the spirit of the deer, thanked the Sun God and his ancestors.†   (source)
  • The only homage I can still pay him is not to cry for forgiveness where no forgiveness is possible.†   (source)
  • I say honorable because I learned to pay homage to this fearful resident within.†   (source)
  • In 1996 the group paid homage to the Church of Satan and had a hit with "Etiquette of Evil."†   (source)
  • After the destrier was led off and his homage removed, Cersei nodded for the ceremonies to continue.†   (source)
  • The Thirteen will come to do you homage, and all the great of Qarth.†   (source)
  • Jon wondered which of his father's banner-men had refused King Stannis homage this time.†   (source)
  • "Other than to pay my beloved prince homage, of course, I'm just curious."†   (source)
  • Since he summoned me. to Pyke to do him homage, I have had no word from Euron.†   (source)
  • The Corps rose and paid him homage in a thunderous, rousing ovation.†   (source)
  • She nodded, slowly, holding her head inclined for a long moment hi acquiescence and in homage.†   (source)
  • Asha had feared he was about to say that they all had gone to Pyke, to do homage to the Crow's Eye.†   (source)
  • The last message sent to Deep-wood had been from Stannis Baratheon, demanding homage.†   (source)
  • Homage is the duty every leal subject owes his king.†   (source)
  • Your Grace is not the only king in the realm demanding homage.†   (source)
  • We made the endless treks to the proper monuments to pay homage to the proper Presidents.†   (source)
  • As Peter's eminence spread, new shrines were built on top of the old, and now, the homage stretched 440 feet overhead to the top of Michelangelo's dome, the apex positioned directly over the original tomb within a fraction of an inch.†   (source)
  • The superscription "The Handmaid's Tale" was ap300 pended to it by Professor Wade, partly in homage to the great Geoffrey Chaucer; but those of you who know Professor Wade informally, as I do, will understand when I say that I am sure all puns were intentional, particularly that having to do with the archaic vulgar signification of the word tail; that being, to some extent, the bone, as it were, of contention, in that phase of Gileadean society of which our saga treats.†   (source)
  • There was no trace of the young man who'd once knelt so deferentially on the ice to lace up her skates, or of the young woman who'd sweetly accepted this homage.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino, resigned to paying homage to his lineage, turned a deaf ear to her pleas, confident that the wisdom of God and his wife's infinite capacity to adapt would resolve the situation.†   (source)
  • What began as a comic-serious homage to the ghost of John Keats became my last reason for existence, an epic tour de force in an age of mediocre farce.†   (source)
  • He held a far lower rank than Naoetsu's commander, an elfin man sporting an abbreviated mustache as an apparent homage to Hitler, but the commander deferred to the Bird, just as the officers at Omori had done.†   (source)
  • He did not sleep again, and if at times he sat down to pick at food, it was in the hope that Fermina Daza would be at the table or, conversely, to deny her the homage of fasting for her sake.†   (source)
  • And it was her idea to remove the sections which she thought would bore the readers-the philosophical passages, the descriptions of my mother, the sections which paid homage to earlier poets, the places where I played with experimental verse, the more personal passages-everything, in fact, except the descriptions of the idyllic final days which, emptied of all heavier freight, came across as sentimental and insipid.†   (source)
  • Homage.†   (source)
  • I have named this one Torontodalisque: Homage to Ingres, because of the pose, and the rubber plant like a fan behind her.†   (source)
  • They will require homage and hostages, no more …. and the Imp will keep Sansa no matter what we do, so they have their hostage.†   (source)
  • It had a surprisingly ironic title—"From Russia with Love"—an homage, of course, to Ian Fleming's classic novel.†   (source)
  • Now he sends forth ravens, summoning the captains and the kings from every isle to Pyke, to bend their knees and do him homage as their king.†   (source)
  • She took it with a natural gesture, as if she had been prepared for that homage, and then she uncovered her face and gave her thanks with a smile.†   (source)
  • A dozen villages did him homage in bread and salt and cider, offering him fruit from their orchards and vegetables from their gardens.†   (source)
  • …need help, do then what you can for the Church and for others who acknowledge the power of our Dread Lord…… To affirm and reaffirm our fealty to the Triumvirate, recite with me the Nine Oaths…… By Gorm, Ilda, and Fell Angvara, we vow to perform homage at least thrice a month, in the hour before dusk, and then to make an offering of ourselves to appease the eternal hunger of our Great and Terrible Lord…… We vow to observe the strictures as they are presented in the book of Tosk…… We vow…†   (source)
  • I'm more of a Christocrat, someone who honors our founding fathers and pays them homage for being godly men at a time when wickedness was all over the world.†   (source)
  • The colleague of Franz's whom Marie-Claude asked to speak at the graveside services also paid homage primarily to the deceased's brave wife.†   (source)
  • Then Gannel instructed Eragon how to properly venerate the god, explaining the signs and words that were used for homage.†   (source)
  • I remember watching the Kirov Ballet perform Sleeping Beauty, and I remember paying homage to the inventorof my ballet training method, the great Vaganova Ballet School.†   (source)
  • The Desert Dwellers had no declared religion, but they paid homage to the Shataiki in ways that were slowly but surely formalizing their worship of the serpentine bat on their crest.†   (source)
  • John Quincy was vexed—"forgive me my dear father for saying i t" — that Adams had not paid greater homage to the "mighty consequences" of July 4, 1776.†   (source)
  • It was a decision so out of line with official policy that the colonel spoke out violently against it and rejected the homage.†   (source)
  • Days later, in Paris, where he had only just learned of Adams's election, Jefferson wrote warmly, "No man on earth pays more cordial homage to your worth or wishes more fervently your happiness.†   (source)
  • He can even go on calling himself King in the North if he likes, so long as he bends the knee and does me homage as his overlord.†   (source)
  • A suburb is simply a form of homage to a city's vitality, but it rarely receives even the slightest consideration for that homage.†   (source)
  • The president of the republic sent him a telegram of condolence in which he promised an exhaustive investigation and paid homage to the dead men.†   (source)
  • But if you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.†   (source)
  • By his presence at the ceremony Adams could have set an example of grace in defeat, while at the same time paying homage to a system whereby power, according to a written constitution, is transferred peacefully.†   (source)
  • Some of her crew had washed up on the shore, and the rooks and crabs had gathered to pay them homage.†   (source)
  • I had come to the Institute to pay homage to the career of my father and my promise to him on his deathbed.†   (source)
  • In his lifetime, the name "Nat Taggart" was not famous, but notorious; it was repeated, not in homage, but in resentful curiosity; and if anyone admired him, it was as one admires a successful bandit.†   (source)
  • They needed friends, not more enemies, yet Robb would never bend the knee in homage to a man he felt had no claim to the throne.†   (source)
  • Mr. Jefferson dines with us and in a card reply to the President's invitation, he begs him to be assured of his homage and his high consideration," Abigail wrote Thomas in a letter dated January 3, 1801.†   (source)
  • "Your lord's banner-men are coming up the mountain to pay you homage, so you will need all your strength."†   (source)
  • "No disrespect to you, Lady Stark, but it would have been more seemly had Lord Robb come to pay homage to the king himself, rather than hiding behind his mother's skirts."†   (source)
  • Jefferson presents his respects to Mr. Adams and incloses him a letter which came to his hands last night; on reading what is written within the cover, he concluded it to be a private letter, and without opening a single paper within it, folded it up and now has the honor to inclose it to Mr. Adams, with the homage of his high consideration and respect.†   (source)
  • But I was not seeing anything; I was taking in the praise of the crowd, accepting the homage of its brawling, rowdy lyrics.†   (source)
  • What shall it be, homage or defiance?†   (source)
  • Petyr Baelish and his sons and grandsons shall hold and enjoy these honors until the end of time, and all the lords of the Trident shall do him homage as their rightful liege.†   (source)
  • Burn Last Hearth to the ground and ride to war with Crowfood's head mounted on a spear, as a lesson to the next lord who presumes to offer half his homage."†   (source)
  • On the last night I would ever be a cadet, I walked the old city of Charleston as an act of homage and gratitude.†   (source)
  • He had been made the castellan of Karhold when his nephew and his sons went south with Robb, and he had been the first to respond to King Stannis's call for homage, with a raven declaring his allegiance.†   (source)
  • Each time during my freshman year that I acted bravely, I was paying ultimate homage to my cowardice.†   (source)
  • They left reluctantly, but left permanently and returned only on sporadic visits to pay homage to the relatives too old or too stubborn to leave.†   (source)
  • Homage to days and years of a team's selfless research terminating in victory over one of the greatest scourges to beset a suffering humanity.†   (source)
  • "Too bad," he said, again in tones of leaden irony, "too bad, my friends, that our celebration cannot continue in the vein of exalted homage I had intended for this evening.†   (source)
  • , their yawning disdain of politics and the raw dirty world, their quotidian homage to the Kenyon Review, to the New Criticism and the ectoplasmic Mr. Eliot)—was that he was creating life full-blown from a test tube.†   (source)
  • The Elysian chorus, thrusting itself up through the muttering chatter of Floss and his aide below, stabbed her with such astonished exaltation that she rose spontaneously from her seat at the typewriter, as if in homage, faintly trembling.†   (source)
  • The lands of Pleasance, Pavia, Petersaint, and the Port of Tremble yielded him homage.†   (source)
  • She paid homage to Janie's Caucasian characteristics as such.†   (source)
  • The trite religious word upon the tongue, the joke to ease the way, the ready acceptance of other people's homage … a happy man.†   (source)
  • The snakes and birds and the divinities of the woods and fields did him homage with flowers and celestial perfumes, heavenly choirs poured forth music, the ten thousand worlds were filled with perfumes, garlands, harmonies, and shouts of acclaim; for he was on his way to the great Tree of Enlightenment, the Bo Tree, under which he was to redeem the universe.†   (source)
  • But the narrator is inclined to think that by attributing overimportance to praiseworthy actions one may, by implication, be paying indirect but potent homage to the worse side of human nature.†   (source)
  • The Marquesa de Montemayor has left a brilliant picture of this opera bouffe paradise with the reigning divinity parading her fierce sensitiveness along the avenues of powdered shell and receiving the homage of all those who could not afford to offend the Viceroy.†   (source)
  • I only arrived in London yesterday, and heard quite by chance at luncheon that you were having an exhibition, so of course I dashed impetuously to the shrine to pay homage.†   (source)
  • Augustus Carmichael had risen and, holding his table napkin so that it looked like a long white robe he stood chanting: To see the Kings go riding by Over lawn and daisy lea With their palm leaves and cedar Luriana, Lurilee, and as she passed him, he turned slightly towards her repeating the last words: Luriana, Lurilee and bowed to her as if he did her homage.†   (source)
  • And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pesthole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage.†   (source)
  • Thus they did homage to the convention, which if not implanted by the other sex was liberally encouraged by them (the chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of man) that publicity in women is detestable.†   (source)
  • All gods who receive homage are cruel.†   (source)
  • This was what she had been attempting to get over to us, that if we did as she said we could expect plenty of results like this public homage.†   (source)
  • …rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?†   (source)
  • That's my way of paying homage.†   (source)
  • But Friday evenings, at family dinner, there was often a fiancee, now a piano teacher, now a dress designer or bookkeeper, or simply a home girl, wearing an engagement ring and other presents; and Dingbat with a necktie, tense and daffy, homage-fully calling her "Honey," "Isabel, hon," "Janice dear," in his hoarse, thin black voice.†   (source)
  • But again the sun set and he said, "He is no god," and beholding the moon, he called him his god to whom he would pay divine homage.†   (source)
  • Jane Austen should have laid a wreath upon the grave of Fanny Burney, and George Eliot done homage to the robust shade of Eliza Carter—the valiant old woman who tied a bell to her bedstead in order that she might wake early and learn Greek.†   (source)
  • A few seedy giants of the Strong Arm, who had been captured by the Orkney faction, turned up and said their homage, but the Lancelot contingent was a spate.†   (source)
  • He felt something dark and leering in the manner with which people spoke of Prescott's genius; as if they were not doing homage to Prescott, but spitting upon genius.†   (source)
  • Touch him when he was off his feed, or had a cold and a little fever, or when there was a rift in the organization, or his position didn't feel so eminent and he wasn't getting the volume of homage and mail he needed--or when it was the turn of a feared truth to come up unseen through the multitude of elements out of which he composed his life, and then he'd say, "I used to think I'd either walk again or else swallow iodine.†   (source)
  • He looked at the people, all these trim, perfumed, silk-rustling people lacquered with light, dripping with light, as they had all been dripping with shower water a few hours ago, getting ready to come here and stand in homage before a man named Peter Keating.†   (source)
  • And she had it all; and the homage of the greatest.†   (source)
  • But she was flustered by Angus's sleek assurance, by his homage to her eyes and wit and reticence.†   (source)
  • A little knot of people collected on the footpath to pay homage to the snorting motor.†   (source)
  • With boisterous mirth they dropped upon their knees in a body and did mock homage to their prey.†   (source)
  • How they loved dressing up in gold lace and doing homage!†   (source)
  • The nucleus was a wire which had been inserted as a homage to electricity.†   (source)
  • At present, homage is due to it from those who think themselves superior, and who possibly are.†   (source)
  • He must slip out in the darkness, and do this one act of homage to Mrs. Moore's son.†   (source)
  • He was usually called Old Stephen, in a kind of rough homage to the fact.†   (source)
  • She acknowledged their homage by bending her head, and giving them a quick look.†   (source)
  • Everybody paid homage to their names; their praises were in all mouths.†   (source)
  • Damn him! he will have the whole province doing him homage; he can get on without the likes of us.†   (source)
  • We have hastened here to kiss those hands, to pour out our feelings and our homage.†   (source)
  • And the old man turned afresh, with a staring, wondering homage, to the audacious daub on the easel.†   (source)
  • The animal which now came out of the wady might well have claimed the customary homage.†   (source)
  • I come down here, for instance, and I find a mighty potentate exacting homage.†   (source)
  • But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last.†   (source)
  • Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.†   (source)
  • My young heart had no room in its homage for any such poor reference.†   (source)
  • The light porter placed the tea-tray on it, knuckling his forehead as a form of homage.†   (source)
  • I say 'Mighty potentate, here IS my homage!†   (source)
  • Let the creed and commandments even have the saucy homage of parody.†   (source)
  • Take the homage of these poor eyes, and shutter-hands.†   (source)
  • Even on himself, its shadow was faint enough as he moved about among the throng, receiving homage.†   (source)
  • Then do the swains appear with tea, with lemonade, with sandwiches, with homage.†   (source)
  • My homage to Miss Wickfield, is a flight of arrows in my bosom.†   (source)
  • We imperatively require a perception of, and a homage to, beauty in our companions.†   (source)
  • His Mr. Griffiths, his supposition to the effect that Clyde was to learn all about the manufacturing end of the business, as well as his condescension in explaining about these webs of cloth, had already convinced Clyde that he was looked upon as one to whom some slight homage at least must be paid.†   (source)
  • They were not, at any rate, the premeditated and perfunctory endearments of the guest under his hostess's eye, for he and the little girl had the room to themselves; and something in his attitude made him seem a simple and kindly being compared to the small critical creature who endured his homage.†   (source)
  • He had stayed beside her in the box just as long as convention demanded, making way for His Royal Highness, and for the host of admirers who in a continued procession came to pay homage to the queen of fashion.†   (source)
  • His pride in his own sin, his loveless awe of God, told him that his offence was too grievous to be atoned for in whole or in part by a false homage to the All-seeing and All-knowing.†   (source)
  • People gathered round her more readily, especially when they were new acquaintances, and she did enjoy a little homage very much.†   (source)
  • I would have you sit under a leafy tree side by side, and read together Romeo and Juliet; and then I would have you fall on your knees and on my behalf kiss the ground on which her foot has left its imprint; then tell her it is the homage of a poet to her radiant youth and to your love for her.†   (source)
  • He gathered quite a following of lads interested in the exhibition; and one that had cut his finger and had been a centre of fascination and homage up to this time, now found himself suddenly without an adherent, and shorn of his glory.†   (source)
  • With the irresponsible curiosity of the tourist thirsting for knowledge, he had studied that old demon, indeed had found potentialities within himself for lively participation in the monstrous acts of homage paid to it by the world all about him.†   (source)
  • He was truly grieved at his wife's want of sentiment—at her refusal to receive that amount of public homage from him.†   (source)
  • With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the off-hand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates.†   (source)
  • Chicago he approved for a certain verve that transcended its loud accent—however, it was a Yale town, and as the Yale Glee Club was expected in a week the Triangle received only divided homage.†   (source)
  • "I am not worthy of you—no, I am not!" she burst out, jumping up from her low stool as though appalled at his homage, and the fulness of her own joy thereat.†   (source)
  • The baker's lad and the grocer's boy, who at first had used to lift their hats gallantly to Sue when they came to execute their errands, in these days no longer took the trouble to render her that homage, and the neighbouring artizans' wives looked straight along the pavement when they encountered her.†   (source)
  • We would pass, in the Rue de l'Oiseau, before the old hostelry of the Oiseau Flesche, into whose great courtyard, once upon a time, would rumble the coaches of the Duchesses de Montpensier, de Guermantes, and de Montmorency, when they had to come down to Combray for some litigation with their farmers, or to receive homage from them.†   (source)
  • When Wash walked through the streets such a one had an instinct to pay him homage, to raise his hat or to bow before him.†   (source)
  • They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without a pretense of apology, without the homage of a tear.†   (source)
  • The homage of which they were so lavish succeeded, in truth, for my nerves, quite as well as if I never appeared to myself, as I may say, literally to catch them at a purpose in it.†   (source)
  • Their formal homage mixed with genial friendship, plus the deliberate mildness with which the mother looked up from her baby, while still helping him drink with gentle pressure from her forefinger, to acknowledge with a smile the reverence shown her—it all suffused Hans Castorp with rapture.†   (source)
  • Then his manners suddenly came back to him, and he dropped upon his knees, with his hands between the King's, and swore allegiance and did homage for his lands and titles.†   (source)
  • The room was hot, and their faces shone with sweat. it seemed to Philip that they had thrown off the guard which people wear on their expression, the homage to convention, and he saw them now as they really were.†   (source)
  • Indeed, except as toned by the former, the comeliness and power, always attractive in masculine conjunction, hardly could have drawn the sort of honest homage the Handsome Sailor in some examples received from his less gifted associates.†   (source)
  • Womanly decorum would have suggested Marguerite should return coldness for coldness, and should sweep past him without another word, only with a curt nod of her head: but womanly instinct suggested that she should remain—that keen instinct, which makes a beautiful woman conscious of her powers long to bring to her knees the one man who pays her no homage.†   (source)
  • …on either side of him, at different levels, before each anfractuosity made in its walls by the window of the porter's lodge or the entrance to a set of rooms, representing the departments of indoor service which they controlled, and doing homage for them to the guests, a gate-keeper, a major-domo, a steward (worthy men who spent the rest of the week in semi-independence in their own domains, dined there by themselves like small shopkeepers, and might to-morrow lapse to the plebeian…†   (source)
  • Might it be, in the mysterious ways of spiritual life, that her soul at those same moments had been conscious of his homage?†   (source)
  • He meant her (thanks to his enlightening companionship) to develop a social tact and readiness of wit enabling her to hold her own with the most popular married women of the "younger set," in which it was the recognised custom to attract masculine homage while playfully discouraging it.†   (source)
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