"Submission" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a little mollified by their submission, and was able to watch things more coolly. It was not difficult to see that the gang were led by a non-commissioned officer—a little bull-dog of a man with hard eyes—with a rascally, hypocritical and wicked face; he was one of the heroes of the affray of the Sunday before. He was ...
— Jean-Christophe, Vol. I • Romain Rolland
... way you regard it," said Madame, in a hoarse, angry tone of voice, "all that remains for me to do is bow submission to your ...
— Louise de la Valliere • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... been received from him on the occasion. Perhaps, however, he is kept silent by his fear of offending, and I shall, therefore, give him a hint, by a line to Oxford, that his sister and I both think a letter of proper submission from him, addressed perhaps to Fanny, and by her shown to her mother, might not be taken amiss; for we all know the tenderness of Mrs. Ferrars's heart, and that she wishes for nothing so much as to be on good ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... seemed to be dilatory before, and the generally received opinion in the camp had been that the defending party, to save risk, was to be starved into submission. ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn
... date in the middle ages; and therefore the custom of exogamy, upon which the ceremony is based, must probably have existed amongst the English themselves at some earlier period. Even in the first historical age, a conquered king generally gave his daughter in marriage to his conqueror, as a mark of submission, which is a relic of the same custom. Now, if members of the various tribes—Jutes, English, and Saxons,—used at one time habitually to intermarry with one another, and to give their children the clan-name of the father, it would follow that persons bearing the ...
— Early Britain - Anglo-Saxon Britain • Grant Allen
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