The wise kowtows acquiescently whatever happens and thus his face is to the ground.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
Its respect for womanhood is on a par with a Bushman's; of authors, "lickspittles" only count; literature, unless it kowtows to the "all-highest" person, is the "trade of Jew scribblers."
"Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess"
Henry W. Fischer