1 'He too,' repeated Bazarov, with a submissive bow.
2 "However, if you command it, Your Majesty," said Kutuzov, lifting his head and again assuming his former tone of a dull, unreasoning, but submissive general.
3 Natasha went back to her father in the other box, now quite submissive to the world she found herself in.
4 Having wrung a submissive "I understand" from Dron, Alpatych contented himself with that, though he not only doubted but felt almost certain that without the help of troops the carts would not be forthcoming.
5 The young man in the fur-lined coat, stooping a little, stood in a submissive attitude, his fingers clasped before him.
6 The same submissive, expressionless look with which he had listened to the Emperor's commands on the field of Austerlitz seven years before settled on his face now.
7 She felt a submissive tender love for this man who would never understand all that she understood, and this seemed to make her love for him still stronger and added a touch of passionate tenderness.
8 If he shows his face near it, mine assumes an imploring and submissive expression.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE 9 All that has ever been in my mind, since I was married,' she said in a low, submissive, tender voice, 'I will lay bare before you.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS 10 I beg your pardon, miss,' he said, awakening from his abstraction, 'but, however submissive to you, I have my position, though a servant.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 46. INTELLIGENCE 11 He looked at her with a look of submissive tenderness, kissed her hand, got up, and, in silence, paced up and down the terrace.
12 When he saw that smile, submissive and humble, Levin felt something clutching at his throat.
13 "Blessed is the name of our God, from the beginning, is now, and ever shall be," the little old priest answered in a submissive, piping voice, still fingering something at the lectern.
14 And Laurie sat down with a submissive expression delightful to behold.
15 God won't be so cruel as to take you from me, cried poor Jo rebelliously, for her spirit was far less piously submissive than Beth's.