| 1. | They bow'd, and made obeisance as she pass'. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 2. | And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. - from The King James Bible |
| 3. | They took their hats off and made obeisance and many signs, which however, I could not understand any more than I could their spoken language. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 4. | The Jew grinned and, making a low obeisance to Oliver, took him by the hand, and hoped he should have the honour of his intimate acquaintance. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 5. | They both embarked after having made their obeisance to his miserable Highness. - from Candide by Voltaire |
| 6. | up, aloft With ev'ry obeisance and diligence, That child may do to father's reverence. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 7. | Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. - from The King James Bible |
| 8. | Never was there a more beautiful example of how the majesty of age and wisdom may comport with the obeisance and respect enjoined upon it, as from a lower social rank, and inferior order of endowment, towards a higher. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 9. | Love, M.A., made obeisance unperceived, mindful of lords deputies whose hands benignant had held of yore rich advowsons. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 10. | Gideon bowed to right and to left, low, grinning, assured comedy obeisances but as the laughter and applause grew he shook his head, and signaled quietly for the drop. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |