Use obsequious in a sentence
Sentences starting with obsequious
- Obsequious porters grasped his pig-skin bag, and seized Honora's; the man at the gate inclined his head as he examined their tickets, and the Pullman conductor himself showed them their stateroom, and plainly regarded them as important people far from home. [9]
Sentences ending with obsequious
- They crowd you --infest you--swarm about you, and sweat and smell offensively, and look sneaking and mean, and obsequious. [5]
- The English are even more bloodthirsty at sight of a travelere than the Swiss, and twice as obsequious. [4]
More example sentences with the word obsequious in them
- She had come to know what it was that gave her father position and distinction; and the knowledge had been forced upon her by all the obsequious flattery of society that she was, as a great heiress, something apart from others. [4]
- It was a stately chamber, and to-day looked more spacious than when, as of yore, it was filled with obsequious throngs. [10]
- The glass and silver was all of a special pattern, and an obsequious waiter handed Honora a menu in a silver frame, with a handle. [9]
- He brought the proprietor, an obsequious little German who, on learning my name, repeated it in every sentence. [9]
- The obsequious Commons obeyed his (the King's) directions; and the King, having affixed the Royal assent to the Bill by commissioners, issued orders for the execution of Norfolk on the morning of January 29 (the next day).--Hume's History of England, vol iii. [5]
- And his wealth makes everybody cringing and obsequious to him. [5]
- His clothes always looked new, of pronounced patterns and light colours set aside for him by an obsequious tailor in Boston. [9]
- A little man eyed him with an obsequious interest which he must have accorded to other young men on similar errands. [9]
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