My humility makes its courage,[207] mysubmissiveness gives it its dominion.
If submissiveness ceased, it would be all over with lordship.
Its meekness and submissiveness was only incidental to its main work, that of being slain for his sin and of its blood being sprinkled on the altar to atone for it.
The Lamb speaks of meekness andsubmissiveness and the Dove speaks of peace (what more peaceful sound than the cooing of a dove on a summer day).
How I wish I were in a more fitting spirit of submissiveness to my betters; and, by ill fortune, this is one of my rebellious days!
These two princes were distinguished only for their passion for building and their submissiveness to Rome.
Meir's modesty was as great as his submissiveness to God.
This did for the already flurried young man, who was very glad to resume his seat and to begin eating with childlike submissiveness when in a loud voice his cousin ordered him to feed.
She sulked, and he returned with coaxing submissiveness to the old subject, for he wished to know all about it.
Then if she met with reproof she would return to the attack with the cleverest maneuvers and with infinite submissiveness and the supple cunning of a beaten cat would catch hold of his hand when no one was looking, in order to kiss it again.
The twelve years that ensued gave more abundant proofs of thesubmissiveness with which the schemes of George II.
But, on the other hand, the cowardly submissiveness of the others to the quo warrantos seemed at least to deserve this censure; and the measure could by no means be put on a level in point of rigour with the corporation act of Charles II.
As for Janet, she alone in her weakness and her submissiveness was calm; the nurse and Hilda understood one another, and she was "leaving it all" to them.
It accounted for the comparative submissiveness of Clara and Albert before Edwin's arrogance as the arbiter of funerals.
These men, who on the previous evening had been all aglow with patriotic fever, now shivered with cold, chilled to their hearts by the shameful submissiveness of prostrate France.
An honest lad he doubtless was, whose very ignorance had generated enthusiasm, whose manly heart was impelled by childish intellect, and who could show alike the submissiveness of a woman and the courage of a hero.
How far was his present Cromwellianism the actual consequence of his blindness, the mere submissiveness of a blind man to what he had no power to disturb?
Making her feel that she had “wronged” him, he took advantage of her phenomenal meekness and submissivenessto trample on the elementary decencies of marriage.
In his mood of doglike submissiveness all feeling of rivalry had died away.
In the same way the exchange of wedding rings is a symbol of the old submissiveness of woman and her being chained to the man.
She pays her debt to life by the throes of child-birth, care of her child and ~submissiveness to her husband~.
There remains only the submissiveness of a downtrodden peasantry and its pathetic fidelity to its primitive superstitions.
Perhaps it is to the excessive inculcation of obedience that the blind submissiveness of the later Paraguayans to such despots as Francia and Lopez may be partly attributed.
Richelieu, would be interpreted as satire of his own submissivenessto the clergy.
Here belongs all that is written of obedience, humility, submissiveness and reverence.
Grant us a true obedience, a submissiveness simple and complete in all things, spiritual and worldly, temporal and eternal.
This kind too affects, in theory, wonderful submissiveness to man.
For, notwithstanding the sweet submissiveness of her theory, the intensely womanly woman has the most astonishing knack of getting her own way and imposing her own will on others.
Marie Antoinette goes to see it--The Queen's Submissiveness to the Reproofs of the Empress.
At times her tone is so severe as to excite a feeling of wonder at the submissiveness with which her letters were received.
The Queen's Submissiveness to the Reproofs of the Empress.
Believe me, count, that day has contributed more to the submissiveness of Hungary than all the favors and privileges which the Emperors of Austria have bestowed upon the Magyars.
The child came with instant submissiveness and kissed her mother good-night; she kissed Miss Graham, and gave her hand to Colville.
