| 单词 | groveller |
| 例句 | “You—you cold-blooded groveller, without soul to worship anything greater than that!” The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z Oh shade of Wordsworth, to think that so unutterable a grub and groveller as I am should dare call anything of thine Stodgy! The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen He who knows us infinitely better than we know ourselves, often puts a thorn in our nest to drive us to the wing, that we may not be grovellers forever. The Words of Jesus Possibly some uninspired groveller, who has never climbed Parnassus, nor drunk of the Castalian spring, may murmur that this is very likely, for that all poetry is "moonstruck madness." Moon Lore A classic cannot reveal itself to a groveller or to a critic. The Lost Art of Reading I know I'm a fool and a groveller; but I'm going mad for love of you. A Mummer's Tale Even then he always assumed a condescension towards me, an air as of one who temporarily stepped down from a pedestal to mingle with common grovellers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891 Thy Art be Nature! the live current quaff, And let the groveller sip his stagnant pool, In fear that else, when Critics grave and cool Have kill'd him, Scorn should write his epitaph. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England And charm some grovellers to uplift their eyes And suddenly wax conscious of the skies. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. Indeed from that day, her spirit being the spirit of the true snob, the hectorer of the humble, the devout groveller in the courtyards of the great, she was a much-changed woman. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight They are grovellers, whose coarseness of taste is only fitted for the grossest food of life. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 Have you no feeling for your profession, you groveller? The Pickwick Papers Among this lagging race of frosty grovellers he might still have risen into eminence, by producing something, which "they should not willingly let die." Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 You are a race of money schemers, money grovellers, lacking in high ideals and genuine spiritual life without which patriotism is an empty word. The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory Your brute, your beast, your groveller in ditches, is not nearly so dangerous. Crowded Out! and Other Sketches Bitter is their denunciation of the poet's arrogance: A man that's proud—vile groveller in the dust, Dependent on the mercy of his God For every breath. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years If the cloud which Jupiter assumed was of the imperial tone and of the fascinating fashion which the groveller in the mud creates, Aegina would have been superfeminine had she not joyously surrendered. My Tropic Isle But let us stoop to take the wretch as he is, and make the best of him, since you are destined to stoop, to keep grovellers and worldlings in countenance. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 Because once a woman has climbed up with her children, she'll find plenty of grovellers ready to support her and suffocate any defiant spirit. Aaron's Rod I must become a pander or a parasite—a hired tyrant over slaves, or a chartered groveller beneath nobles—if I would not starve miserably in the streets, or rob openly in the woods! Antonina The squatter of half-a-century ago dominated his immigrant servants by moral force—no difficult matter, with a 'gentleman' on one side and a squad of hereditary grovellers on the other. Such Is Life |
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