What is "kowtowed"

Usage examples of "kowtowed".

When Trinket thought he had mastered them, he dropped to his knees and kowtowed, knocking his head altogether eight times on the floor.

As soon as they were inside, Zhang took out the Secret Edict and Trinket kowtowed and received it in both hands.

But there was a method in Vesperus's madness, for he was calculating along these lines: if they are willing to go down this path with me, they will realize that I kowtowed because I saw how beautiful they were and was overcome with love.

If, on the other hand, they are proper, highly principled girls and do make a scene, I'll just claim that I was visiting the temple to pray for a son and that, on noticing some women in there already, I knelt down and kowtowed outside to avoid mixed company.

As he kowtowed, the two younger women turned and gave him a look, but it was not clear to him whether it was a look of interest or indifference.

Were you, or were you not, the one who admired their beauty so much that he knelt down outside the gate and kowtowed like a madman?

I was there, too, to pray for a son, and when I saw some women already there, I thought it best not to go in, to avoid mixed company, so I knelt down and kowtowed outside the gate.

After all, it was only because you saw how gorgeous they were that you knelt down and kowtowed to them.

That aroused my suspicions, and I questioned them closely until they told me in great detail, smiling all the while, how you had kowtowed to them.

Why was he so afraid of scandal when he saw me that he didn't even bow once, whereas with them he went wild and kowtowed quite brazenly?

What's more, she was with us that day at the temple, and when he kowtowed, she went crazy, too, as if she'd have liked to kneel down and kowtow along with him if only she weren't too embarrassed.

Vesperus promptly knelt down and kowtowed nonstop, like the disciple who bowed down before the Fifty-three Deities.

He advanced and kowtowed before the dais with its strange figure, and laid down an offering before it, consisting of punk sticks, little dishes of Chinese cakes, rice, a jar of oil, and some cooked chicken and pork.

As the high priest of Satan worked, the devil worshippers kowtowed obediently.

Probably because Matt hadn't kowtowed properly in the face of Simpson's innate superiority!