servility

The crouching servility, usually so acceptable a quality in a slave, did not answer when manifested toward her.

This being indeed the means which they use to recompense to themselves their extreme servility and condescension to their superiors; for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.

Thee is a mixture of servility and self-importance in his letter, which promises well.

He noticed that they whispered to one another, casting significant looks at him with a kind of awe and even servility. A deference such as he had never before received was shown him.

He humored her with inexhaustible servility. "Allow me to kiss

He asked my pardon in terms of sickening servility, and assured me that he could explain matters to my satisfaction, if I would honour him by consenting to a personal interview.

He takes his hat off to me in all servility, because, forsooth, I am to him a lord of life.

In her behaviour she was respectful and complaisant, even to servility: she attempted to flatter and fawn upon me at first, but I soon checked that.

In contact with this wicked world, his manner revealed that happy mixture of two extremes--the servility which just touches independence, and the independence which just touches servility--attained by no men in existence but Scotchmen.

If you wish to see what abysses servility can descend, present yourself before a Baden-Baden shopkeeper in the character of a Russian prince."

Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation!

It was like a placid mask of servility. There was nothing to be afraid of, there.