kotowed

Even their otherwise excellent documentary on soul music was marred by the rather repellent theory that Berry Gordy, the brains behind glorious Motown was an 'Uncle Tom'who kotowed to white people and ignored the burning racial issues of the time.

Auntie Auntie Shame on You 2005

Chou Jui's wife then kotowed and rose to her feet.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

Yün-nan people, at the time of the dual decease in recent Chinese history, did homage, and kotowed, recognizing him as the new emperor.

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

Later we ladies were invited into the room, where the Chinese all kotowed.

Court Life In China 1909

The great gates were thrown open and there in the gateway the female members of the family knelt and kotowed as the chair passed by.

Court Life In China 1909

How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them!

The Voice in the Fog Harold MacGrath 1901

He kotowed several times on the way out of the parlour, conscious, however, of the searching eyes of the man who had balked him.

The Pagan Madonna Harold MacGrath 1901

Later we ladies were invited into the room, where the Chinese all kotowed.

Court Life in China Isaac Taylor Headland 1900

The great gates were thrown open and there in the gateway the female members of the family knelt and kotowed as the chair passed by.

Court Life in China Isaac Taylor Headland 1900

In Mexico he ate the ardent chile from the tender hand of his Guadalupita, and later on he was on time at a five o'clock family tea party in Japan, or he might have kotowed pidgin-love to a trusting maid in a China town of fair Cathay.

Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales 1893