Historical clue formulations

• Prepared to pray — 2025-08-12
• Prepared to propose, perhaps — 2025-04-08
• Prepared to be knighted — 2025-03-17
• Showed respect or submission, in a way — 2025-01-18
• Prepared to propose — 2024-12-30
• Prepared to pray, say — 2022-10-23
• Prepared to pray, perhaps — 2022-01-20
• Used a prayer rug, say — 2021-09-19
• Posed in the front row of a team photo, say — 2021-03-05
• Prepared to be knighted — 2020-08-26
• Protested, in a way — 2019-04-27
• Showed allegiance, in a way — 2019-03-17
• Assumed the hero pose, in yoga — 2017-11-24
• Prepared to pop the question, perhaps — 2017-08-21
• Prepared to propose — 2017-07-19
• Prepared to confess sins, say — 2017-07-15
• Prepared to propose, in the traditional way — 2015-11-09
• Prepared to be knighted — 2014-07-28
• Used a prie-dieu — 2013-07-18
• Honored a king, perhaps — 2012-08-12
• Prepared to be knighted — 2011-12-26
• Went down, in a way — 2011-12-09
• Genuflected — 2011-02-09
• Showed reverence, in a way — 2010-05-20
• Prepared to pray — 2008-04-07
• Showed obeisance — 2007-07-15
• Prepared to pray, say — 2006-10-17
• Bent — 2006-03-02
• Prepared for a proposal — 2006-01-26
• Kowtowed — 2005-11-23
• Prepared to propose — 2005-04-28
• Prepared to be knighted — 2003-10-06
• Prepared to be dubbed — 2003-02-12
• Showed subservience — 2001-09-21
• Prepared to be dubbed — 2001-07-24
• Prepared to pray — 2001-07-16
• Prepared to be dubbed — 2001-06-19
• Took a position in the service? — 2001-01-28
• Awaited a dubbing — 2000-03-01
• Showed respect, in a way — 1999-03-05
• Prepared to propose, perhaps — 1998-12-20
• Genuflected — 1998-11-25
• Genuflected — 1998-01-26
• Used a prie-dieu — 1996-09-28
• Prepared to propose — 1995-03-01
• Genuflected — 1995-01-04