 | James Augustus St. John - Travelers - 1831 - 328 pages
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." After a second audience, to which they were invited chiefly for the purpose of allowing the ladies... | |
 | Japan - 1841 - 314 pages
...other ; and there, kneeling, he bowed his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backward like a crab, without uttering a single word. So mean...we have of this mighty monarch. Nor are there any other ceremonies observed in the audience he gives to the greatest and most powerful princes of the... | |
 | Child rearing - 1842 - 326 pages
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." After a second audience, to which they were invited, chiefly for the purpose of allowing the ladies... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Japan - 1852 - 474 pages
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, half-civilized government ; it is not by crawling... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Japan - 1852 - 418 pages
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, halfcivilized government ; it is not by crawling... | |
 | Talbot Watts - Japan - 1852 - 406 pages
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, halfcivilized government; it is not by crawling... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Japan - 1852 - 416 pages
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of thia mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, halfcivilized government... | |
 | Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 pages
...bowed his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backward like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." There is every reason to believe, from the tenacity with which customs, humiliating to foreigners,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Japan - 1856 - 396 pages
...quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word.So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, halfcivilized government ; it is not by crawling... | |
 | Laurence Oliphant - China - 1859 - 762 pages
...Emperor sat on the other ; and there kneeling, he bowed his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering a...So mean and short a thing is the audience we have with this mighty monarch." This was the form of the audience of ceremony, but now let us sec what took... | |
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Emperor sat on the other, and when kneeling he bowed his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards like a crab without uttering a single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch. 
