What is "respectfully"

Usage examples of "respectfully".

I respectfully but firmly refused to go home bearless, and the editor fired me by wire.

I would like to respectfully request that Blair and Blaise be assigned to another instructor.

The red mare waded on through the press, exchanging greetings with stallions and mares, all of whom fell back respectfully before her, even as fellows behind them crowded forward.

Surprisingly, most of them nodded respectfully to Perdix, as well, offering solemn greetings to the diminutive creature.

I respectfully presented my petition, which she read as she walked along, and then told me with a kindly smile to wait a moment.

But there had come a day when Jarvis and Prout sent aft very respectfully to beg that there might be no more of it, for it dragged across their raw nerves: and from that hour the guitar had lain in its case.

He scooped up the sword-torn black band and the lock of auburn hair spilling from it, folded it respectfully into the pockets of his robes, and left the green.

Passing straight through the atrium, where he was respectfully greeted by the servants and slaves, Pollio passed into the tablinum, where his uncle was sitting writing.

In the center, ringed by a respectfully unpeopled band of grass and flowers, sat another round force dome, a dozen meters or more in diameter.

ON MONDAY, March 4, 1793, in an inaugural ceremony of record brevity, Adams looked on respectfully as Washington took the oath of office.

Appointed by Mother Aglee as Overlady of Five, charged with coordinating the peaceful integration of the aliens into the life of the planet, she sought out Bertt, explained all to him, asked respectfully for his assistance.

Gabriel and Christian ignored their steaming coffee, beignets, and omelets to listen, enraptured and respectfully, to the story of Apollonius of Tyana.

He squinted against the backblast but held his position respectfully until the Rolls slid into the thick, rolling clouds over San Francisco, clouds that now reflected the bloody glow of the streetlights from the city below.

The doctor and nurse were silent, respectfully set back about ten yards from the biomembrane, one on each side.

In newspapers the following day, November 8, 1962, the Camperdown obituaries were respectfully long, though even longer were those for Mrs.