He'd expected terrified pleas or meek submission, not rudeness and disrespect.

After their uncharacteristically meek submission to England last year, Australia are quickly recovering their strut.

They do not get my meek submission.

And the accepted figure of Jesus, instinct with meek submission, is not in the tone of our worship.

Instead, they trembled and issued soft mewls of meek submission.

A noncorporeal avatar of his deepest, most primitive aggressive energies thrashed her into meek submission.

Compared to their ancestors' meek submission a hundred years ago, today's Plains aboriginal descendants are awakening relatively and willing to rewrite their own history.

The veteran slave wore an expression of respect, but not meek submission.

The old woman hovered close to the doorway, allowing her shoulders to slump in an appearance of meek submission.

Others hung their heads in meek submission.