Tag-rag attended him with extreme obsequiousness to the door; and on his departure, walked back rapidly to his own room, and sat down for nearly half an hour in a sort of turbid but delicious revery.
No doubt that Mr. Baggs' obsequiousness must have been irritating, and that it literally called forth the haughty Retort which otherwise might have remained unspoken.
He would only look upon my supposed Magnanimity as a sign of cringing Humility, Obsequiousness and Terror of further Reprisals.
You are most gracious, my Lord," murmured Mr. Baggs promptly, whilst I could have struck him for his obsequiousnessand his Lordship for his arrogance.
I tried it on Bruno, and he almost instantly changed fromobsequiousness to near-insolence.
Its obsequiousness equals its "power of legislation in all cases whatsoever.
Ferdinand set a climax to his disgusting obsequiousnessin a petition begging to be adopted as a son, and asking for permission to appear at court.
He had been easily moved to this course, for Murat had so far coldly refused to recognize him, while Savary was prodigal of obsequiousness and addressed him as king.
For two months after her death I was rich, and was pleased with that obsequiousness and reverence which wealth instantaneously procures.
Especially as the king's highway of obsequiousness is so very broad and easy.
Resistance to power has shut the door of the House of Commons to one man; obsequiousness and servility, to none.
With the utmost obsequiousness he at once began unfastening his neck-cloth, whimpering at the same time something about his four little children: what would become of them when they had nobody to care for them.
If modesty is a virtue, humility and obsequiousness to man are base: for there is a noble pride which is the most real and solid basis of virtue.
Slavishness to party and obsequiousness to the popular whims go hand in hand.
Evermore is parade and obsequiousness suspectable: it must show either a foolish head, or a knavish heart.
All sweetness and obsequiousness will I be on this occasion.
Cecil undoubtedly professed to favour it; but this must have been out of obsequiousness to the queen.
The bishops had promised him an obsequiousness to which he had been little accustomed, and a zeal to enhance his prerogative which they afterwards too well displayed.
He condemns theobsequiousness of Cranmer, the bigotry of Laud, the tortuousness of Charles I.
Bower regarded himself as the originator of this course of lectures; through all his obsequiousness it was easy to see that he deemed his co-operation indispensable to the success of the project.
If these examples take root in the minds of men, what members hereafter will be bold enough not to be corrupt, especially as the king's highway of obsequiousness is so very broad and easy?
There was something more than obsequiousness in Holt's manner--something altogether different from that deferential respect, with which the gospel minister is usually received in the houses of the humbler classes.
If so, it would account for the obsequiousness of his host, though not satisfactorily.
Masked as ever in his suave exterior and his manner of mingled obsequiousness and fatherliness, he came instantly.
From her no mask of music, no glamour of others' admiration could hide the predatory obsequiousness of Baskinelli.
The carriages, the trained servants, the obsequiousness of the humbler passengers.
No obsequiousness from lank Jim, who has the traces slipped and the reins festooned from the bits almost before Jethro has lifted Cynthia to the floor.
It chanced that a table near us had just been vacated and they were shown to it by the head-waiter, whose excessive obsequiousness proved the size of his tip.
His modesty was undeniable; his obsequiousness could not be greater.
