| 单词 | grovelling |
| 例句 | Mustapha Mond tried to make him get up; but Bernard persisted in his grovelling; the stream of words poured out inexhaustibly. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s harmless, mei baas,” Granny went on in the most grovelling of voices. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Men cast from the saddle lay grovelling on the ground. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They fell forward, grovelling heedlessly on the cold earth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Occasionally, when they are too grovelling, it makes a man mad and then he kicks them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you see what a villain he is? Do you see those grovelling and wandering eyes? That’s how he looked when we were tried together. He never looked at me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z His eyes smouldered with anger, but he could not avenge himself: his miserable enemy lay grovelling on the stones whimpering. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And there is Orson Welles as Falstaff, and Falstaff is grovelling for Henry V. He’s banished. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Or will the toilet paper boy utilise his corporate muscle and doom his competitors to a lifetime of grovelling servitude? Go Compare: the Movie - which other ads would make great films? | Stuart Heritage 2010-04-01T10:49:00Z He was declared persona non grata by the festival and issued a grovelling apology. Charlotte Gainsbourg: 'I'm always looking for what will make me feel bad' 2011-08-05T18:59:01Z The 16 grasping nitwits who began grovelling for Lord Sugar's favour at the outset were loathsome even by the formidable standards established by the franchise, and this isn't the week they suddenly grow more likable. TV highlights 22/05/2013 2013-05-22T06:00:04Z I was standing with a famously suave French publicist in the alleys of the Carlton hotel, desperately grovelling for tickets to the opening night Gatsby party, when a small entourage fussily hurried toward us. Trailer Trash Cannes 2013-05-18T23:04:12Z Gore is initially unwilling and demands grovelling, repeated apologies. South Park's Al Gore apology contains an inconvenient truth: it's funny 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most flawed prank of all came from Justin Bieber, whose joke went so wrong that he had to deliver a grovelling apology for it the next day. This year's prize April fool? You'll never Belieber it! 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z In a blog post on the Left Bank site the artist described her actions as “an act of vandalism and bureaucratic grovelling.” ArtsBeat: Museum Director in Ukraine Paints Over a Mural She Doesn’t Like 2013-08-01T16:51:45Z It's because he is a "genius recluse" who's much too busy being both reclusive and a genius to go grovelling to Guide readers in a bid to promote his new TV show. Amstell delight 2010-08-06T23:10:00Z And that's why, this morning, The Voice began its campaign of systematic grovelling. Revamp The Voice 2013-02-11T11:16:37Z Fan’s first public communication since July was a grovelling confession on Weibo: “For a long time, I did not distinguish between national, social and personal interests,” she wrote. Fan Bingbing’s mysterious disappearance: what it means for China’s elite 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z "Trying to run around with your hand outstretched, grovelling, begging for money, is pointless," Putin said in a televised address to Russia's political, military and business elite. Putin tells business elite: Don't beg for Western money, invest in Russia 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z But its immediate collapse ended hopes of those new sources of income and forced the Glazers and FSG to make grovelling apologies to fans. Why are Man United and Liverpool suddenly on the market? 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z He told his mother at the time, who got a "grovelling apology" before it was "hushed up". Nicky Campbell: Abuse would have crushed my parents 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Bags of rice, bales of cloth and bundles of cash will be distributed to the electorate by grovelling candidates keen to curry favour. Letter from Africa: Nigeria's electioneering and the role of stomachs 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z But when the financial largesse never materialized and criticism mounted that Duterte was “grovelling before China,” his administration started to change tack, fearing political repercussions with an election looming in 2022, experts said. Philippine 'Angels of the Sea' use their voices to repel Chinese ships 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z There may be some grovelling involved and the swagger may diminish for a time, but the 12 clubs still have power through popularity and status - and they know it. European Super League Q&A - is it over for good? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s shameful, I know, to feel so grovelling toward these institutions. 'The sense I was clever was knocked out of me': confessions of a uni dropout 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z As word of her infraction spread, González Blanco published a grovelling resignation letter in which she apologised for contravening efforts to purify Mexican public life. Mexican minister resigns after causing 38-minute flight delay 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z But instead of a grovelling apology, her arguments were met with a shrug. Why women still can't eat alone 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z She was not seen in public for months over the summer and went silent on social media, before turning up in early October with a grovelling apology for evading taxes. Where film stars and police chiefs can simply vanish 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The site was unblocked only after the company’s chief executive issued a grovelling public apology. A deadline looms in China’s battle with foreign firms over Taiwan 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Perhaps they cease to matter after the initial burst of media purgatory, grovelling by executives, celebratory cant from competitors and politicians’ grandstanding. Getting a handle on a scandal 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z “The ego of Trump would love nothing more than a humbled Steve Bannon coming grovelling for his forgiveness. He may have imagined just that scenario.” Booked! Trump, staffers who cried Wolff and a week of fire and fury 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Last month, a minor vote in parliament on animal welfare sparked a wildfire of controversy, prompting grovelling Tory pledges to ever more be kind to quadrupeds. You can log off, sure. But you can’t stop the outrage economy | Rafael Behr 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z He was accused of theatrical class distinction, grovelling to the stars and treating lesser mortals with disdain. Sir Peter Hall: A giant of British theatre 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Asda took less than a day to make a grovelling reversal to get some books for their soulless sheds. Twenty years of Harry Potter – the 20 things we have learned 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z And when Ellie Goulding is left explaining why thousands of punters have been stranded on an airfield outside Crewe for 24 hours with only three toilets, we will see what bespoke grovelling looks like. Beyond Glastonbury: why Gorillaz and Disclosure are in a field of their own 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z TRUMP: According to Pew report, then he’s—then he’s grovelling again. Speechless: The Trump Effect 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Next came bail-outs from governments, then years of grovelling before regulators, mass firings of staff and quarter after quarter of poor results that left banks’ shareholders disappointed. The three Rs behind global banks’ recovery 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z But neither grovelling for forgiveness nor laboriously correcting those who are intent on misunderstanding you are the way. Help! I'm caught in a Twitter war and I'm losing 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The AIA has since issued a grovelling video apology, admitting their statement was “tone deaf” – while no doubt rushing out to stock up on security fencing and gold glazing catalogues. Trumpitecture: what we can expect from the billionaire cowboy builder 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Trump grovelling for Billions of Dollars from the Donor class is the ultimate in hypocrisy. Key G.O.P. Donors Still Deeply Resist Donald Trump’s Candidacy 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Speechless. But then, to render Americans speechless is not the same as rendering them helpless, or hopeless, or silent, or grovelling. Speechless: The Trump Effect 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Here is Leduc, a woman made feminist by experience: a fatherless, poverty-stricken childhood, a youth spent grovelling for affection and sustenance, her wartime hustle smuggling legs of lamb to rich Parisians. Violette Leduc: the great French feminist writer we need to remember 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Well-known opposition journalists followed that by filming themselves making fake, grovelling apologies to Ramzan "for existing". Putin loyalist Kadyrov unleashed on Russian 'traitors' - BBC News 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The company responsible for sending the Spartans onto the streets of Beijing issued a grovelling apology to China’s security services on Thursday. Half-naked Spartan warriors thwarted by Beijing police 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z A week later he was unearthing the huge slabs of alabaster that had lined its walls, panels that depicted the power of the Assyrian king and the grovelling submission of his enemies. The men who uncovered Assyria 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z He chose not to run for President in 1992 because his ambition was superseded by his distaste for the grovelling, the fundraising, the selling, the motels. Remembering Mario Cuomo 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z The Chaser boys are forbidden to mock the ABC’s grovelling. Chris Kenny: ‘I’ll be remembered as the journalist called a dog f**ker who stood up for his rights’ 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The danger is that soon papers will be forced into grovelling front page apologies. Press regulation: The 10 major questions 2013-10-30T00:51:19Z But the one that has made all the noise these past few days, drawing grovelling apologies from every corporation orifice, isn't really one of them. Pity the BBC if the moneymen start to run the show 2013-07-07T08:02:00Z That one breached the deferred prosecution agreement and Peace was forced to make a grovelling apology. War and Peace at Standard Chartered … 2013-05-04T23:05:45Z The resulting botched article, however, had to be retracted and a grovelling apology issued. Tell the new generation Sids: don't buy bailed-out bank shares 2013-04-27T23:01:11Z There really are people who expect everyone else to be in a state of permanent grovelling apology for their corporeal existence. Why are Britons so bad at being naked? 2013-01-16T09:00:02Z It brought to mind the way in which he hammed up to the West Indian crowd at The Oval the previous summer, grovelling in front of them as his team were destroyed. Tony Greig – showman, salesman, charismatic leader and cricketing great 2012-12-30T14:42:28Z Niccy Halifax, who is organising the victory ceremonies at the London Olympics, insists the prospect of such horrors, and the grovelling apologies which follow, does not keep her awake at night. London 2012 podium planners fight the fear of the upside-down flag 2012-07-18T13:41:13Z In a last-ditch bid for clemency, the new regime at O'Newco Rangers today resorted to grovelling, with tartan suit Malcolm Murray apologising to all of Scottish football for the shenanigans of his predecessors. The Fiver 2012-07-03T15:14:41Z To hold forth no better end than pleasure is felt to be utterly mean and grovelling—a doctrine worthy only of swine. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z She cursed Rush, particularly when engaged in a violent struggle with the pride which alone held her from grovelling at his feet. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z In judging of Epernon the Abb� judged by mankind in general, for in almost every breast pride is a cowardly quality, and once depressed sinks into grovelling submission. Henry of Guise; (Vol. III of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:29.713Z With thee, my grovelling thoughts I heavenward raise, Borne upward by thy bold, aspiring wing; I follow where thou wilt,—a helpless thing, Cold in the sun, and warm in winter days. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z "You are a strange girl, Mabel," he said, looking steadily down upon her glowing face, "were I you, I should be rebelling, proud, or grovelling in despair." Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-04T02:00:58.490Z It was "the grovelling condition of a clerk," which his youthful genius revolted at. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z Over against the altars of Nero and Popp�a, the voice of a prisoner was daily heard, and daily woke in grovelling souls the consciousness of their divine destiny. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The mind soars to the lofty: it is at home in the grovelling, the disagreeable, and the little. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z "Oh, mercy! mercy!" he cried, almost grovelling before the curate. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z I answered, grovelling before him, that it might be--it might be; but---- "But--who of us is not?" he answered, with a sudden gesture between scorn and self-reproof. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z How distant are these generous feelings from the low grovelling prejudices of bigotry! Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Covering the fa�ade of the very Temple of Freedom with the placards of grovelling Mammon! Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z The man grovelling before me might deserve death; knowing the stakes, he had gambled and lost. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z “Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a grovelling swine?” The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z What could the abject, grovelling, brow-beaten creature want, coming here to bother? The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z They themselves are grovelling and groping in the dark whenever they pretend to fly from the trammels of empiricism, and, like our forefathers, account for what is unaccountable. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z No; but he had mistaken a vile grovelling feeling born of ignoble sensuality for love, and that feeling could run in harness in perfect accord side by side with hatred. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z But would the King admit this; or would he frown on the elder, despite his grovelling, because of the sins of the audacious junior? My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z How he would have snapped his fingers at Clovis and Alga�--mean grovelling worms--with their ridiculous testament which was not to be the last! The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z A pack of grovelling cowards! fine weather friends. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z For money they barter truth and love; do violence to the most beautiful feelings, to gain possession of the sordid metal that fetters us to the grovelling earth in its disgraceful chains! Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck 2012-02-13T03:00:19.620Z We may be aware that we are grovelling and vile, and deserve to be held up to the contempt of our fellows in our native ugliness. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Europeans do not meet with anything of the grovelling deference to which we are accustomed in India. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Human nature is so selfish, when left to its own guidance, that it needs the purifying influences of religion to lift the soul from grovelling in the dust. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z Worthy the Youth, I ween, to rest On the fair swellings of her breast, Worthy to hush her inmost fears, And kiss away her struggling tears: For never grovelling spirit stole A woman's unpolluted soul! The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z Do men with brutes an equal dullness share, Or cuts yon' grovelling mole the midway air? The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z The translator is often tempted to elevate a too grovelling sentiment, to �sharpen a point� here and there, to trick out a commonplace with some borrowed modern embellishment. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z They come out of doorways at you, and in grovelling whispers beg of you to come with them and see all the wickedness of Paris. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z Ah! if your villainy had proved successful, and you were revelling in wealth and splendour, instead of grovelling there beneath the lash of an awakened conscience, where would be your repentance? The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z Never a night goes by that does not see some stricken girl or woman grovelling on the floor of her chamber in abject misery alone and uncomforted. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z On the other hand, such a notion could only be entertained where a grovelling or anthropomorphic idea has prevailed, or is cherished amongst a credulous people. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z The stories told of him suggest grovelling devoutness combined with very easy morals, a phenomenon familiar to the student of mediæval Catholicism. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Swayne was not to be outshone in the art of grovelling by any of his own species of fellow-worm, but he did not grovel unnecessarily. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z Starting suddenly from his grovelling posture, he cried, fixing his eyes on De Vessey with a searching glance,— "What brings thee hither?" The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z It needs God's call, God's revelation, and God's power, to lift the heart of man above this present world, for man is a grovelling creature,—alienated from heaven, and allied to earth. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z There was nothing grovelling, or low, or meanly selfish, that came near the head or the heart of Mr. Calhoun. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z If you can do an all-important thing for your fellows which you believe no one else can do, and are without ambition for opportunity, are you not a poor grovelling creature? The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z A man who all his life can grovel before his fellow-creatures, may as well do a little grovelling before his Creator at the last, if anything is to be got by it. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z His stile is dry, stiff, grovelling, and impure. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z "I meant that," Dr. Lavendar said, stroking the poor, gray head grovelling against his knee. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z Such is the low, grovelling idea they generally have of Christianity. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Though the slaves of old were very degraded, they were not as low and grovelling as those of our day. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z They both practised the most rigorous penance, professed to aspire after absolute purity, but in their conduct and principles they were grovelling, intriguing, profligate and ambitious. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Even our public schools, that favorite emblem of our omniscience, have been declared by authority to merit interest but by no means grovelling admiration on the part of the effete peoples of Europe. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z Charlie showed his hopeless ignorance by saying that the Rhine reminded him of the Vaal River, and he seemed to take more interest in that grovelling fancy than in anything he saw. Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z He was emphatically an oasis in this sterile land—a solitary example of a highly cultivated mind among many millions of men grovelling in ignorance. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z “I never saw such a person, either, for not ‘recognising,’ let alone for not ‘grovelling.’ Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z We deprecate such grovelling servility in the people as much as we pity the pride of the nobles. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z In the last ranks was the grovelling, confused mass of convicts. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z The poor grovelling wretches that call themselves his fellow creatures, sink into nothingness before him, as if beings of another order! The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z If ever there was in the annals of man a figure that superstitious mysticism combined with grovelling interests to annihilate, it was the figure of the pure-minded, self-sacrificing, intrepid shepherdess of Domremy. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z He tried to feel grateful to ’Ngaloo, but it was impossible, he really could not help observing that the great chief had a selfish, grasping, and grovelling mind. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z Its ghost lived on to drag him down “in the form of grovelling sensualities.” Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Thank heaven that my mind is not of that grovelling order which sees vulgarity in nature and coarseness where there should only be refinement. The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z How can a man who has two legs given him to stand upright upon, persist in grovelling through life upon all-fours? Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z The pathetic story cleanses Joan of the miraculous, uncovers the grovelling influences she had to contend against, exposes the sordid ambitions she had to overcome and that finally slaked their vengeance in her blood. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z If the intellectual capacity is weak, he is content with a grovelling conception of the Deity; if powerful, he erects an elaborate fabric of philosophical speculations. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z The immigration system leaves 11m people in the shadows and condemns many of the brightest graduates of American universities to years of grovelling before bureaucrats if they want to stay in America. Schumpeter: American idiocracy 2011-08-10T18:17:44Z Melba recently swept through Australia in a semi-regal way, and was queen of a champion grovelling match. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z Suddenly full in his path he found Matteo grovelling before him, his hands and knees covered with blood, foam from his lips, and to all appearance in a state of extreme exhaustion. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Being a court messenger and therefore, naturally, a royalist of the Armagnac party, Gillon the Furtive professed, after the fashion of inferior courtiers, a sort of stupid, false, blind and grovelling adoration for Charles VII. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Half of our unhappy peasants did not know a word of French: for two hundred years they had been left grovelling in ignorance! The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z Anyway, the whole rest of the media seems to be going through some sort of cathartic period of disclosure and grovelling apology, so it seems only fair for Claims Five to get in line. Claims Five: What the hackers have been hearing 2011-07-22T10:50:57Z I cannot endure the sight of a man before whom I have been used to stand in awe, grovelling at my feet like a crushed serpent, whose writhings excite aversion rather than compassion. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z The chauffeur was grovelling; a man I knew was storming at him; and a woman wringing her hands on the pavement. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z Had I not been afraid of killing the innocent child, all the three scoundrels would have been grovelling, with their faces in the dust, where I now lie. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z You should have seen the fellow grovelling at the bottom of the boat and screaming—Wasn’t he, Miss Wyatt?” Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z The two young men who drove them had fallen flat and were grovelling and wailing for mercy. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z Far be it from him who walks as her familiar with Philosophy to stoop to the base grovelling of a soul of clay and suffer himself thus to be treated like a vile malefactor. Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z Then she covered her face with her blanket and lay upon the ground, grovelling. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z It is a curious thing that in a certain class of Spanish literature a peculiar relish is shown for the portraying of moral squalor and the grovelling criminality of social outcasts. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z As in a Glass Darkly.—Grubby and grovelling "Realists" boast that they only "hold the mirror up to Nature." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 12th 1893 2011-05-21T02:00:09.207Z Like thee a soaring soul's in peril, Yet its one hour is worth A whole Eternity of grovelling Closer to grimy earth. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z It was hand to hand now; cutlasses plying, men stabbing on the decks, growling and grovelling in their blood like fighting dogs. Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 2011-05-19T02:00:07.643Z "Je me rends!" they both exclaimed, grovelling at his feet in fear of instant death, for, being but peasants, they knew that scant mercy was shown to those who were unable to offer ransom. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z All creatures played the carpenter and mason in building up for themselves their little islands in the infinite sea; but grovelling man looks not over his shoulder, and sees not that all is like him. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z As women we cannot be silent and see the high ends at which they aimed made futile by the growth of a grovelling lust for material and commercial aggrandizement. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z Debasing, grovelling, mean obedience to the tyranny of an order! Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z The power of the state prompts firms to spend more time grovelling to politicians than grappling with original thoughts. Schumpeter: Bamboo innovation 2011-05-05T10:58:31Z She fell upon her knees, grovelling on the floor. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z First the spinal skeleton, with branchwork of rib and savage nudity of joint and clavicle, shaped mammoth-wise, in grovelling involution of limb. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Then what solitude is mine— From grovelling mankind aloof! The Dawn Patrol, and other poems of an aviator 2011-05-02T02:00:20.747Z The address to the deity was combined with spells and incantations, producing a confused medley of spiritual expressions and grovelling superstition that is at once repellent and grotesque to our modern notions. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z But see, my child, to what this life of grovelling monotony conduces. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z That proves they've found him out; they know him for the grovelling soaker he is, a wretch tottering on the verge of delirium tremens, and, rightly, they'll have nothing to do with him. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:12.713Z There was no minimising of committed sin, nor yet an insincere and grovelling self-accusation. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z One feels that the girl has been desecrated by no grovelling curiosity, no passionate dreams; that she is perfectly unconscious of her physical maturity. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z And, let me tell you a secret, Tom; this grovelling desire to be amongst a set that we have no pretension to, is essentially and entirely English. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z None of the surrounding countries would seem to be unvitiated by the baneful influence of the slave-trade; and all are sunk in the lowest and most grovelling superstition. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Before their time alchemy was but a grovelling delusion; and theirs is the merit of having spiritualised and refined it. Mysteries of the Rosie Cross Or, the History of that Curious Sect of the Middle Ages, Known as the Rosicrucians; with Examples of their Pretensions and Claims as Set Forth in the Writings of Their Leaders and Disciples 2011-02-23T03:00:32.190Z The old hunter stood by the table, with a slow smile breaking upon his thin face as he looked upon the grovelling, snake-like figures at his feet. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z With astonishing, and indeed misplaced, magnanimity, Richard pardoned his brother, when he made a grovelling submission, and restored him to his lordship of Ireland and to a great part of his English lands. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z O grovelling souls, and void of things divine! Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z It is fully illustrative of the grovelling superstition that enthrals the Amhára, of whom none ever allude to the dread sorcerer Thavánan, without an invocation to the Deity. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z I never had the slightest talent for the part of a grovelling sinner. Saint Michael A Romance 2011-01-31T03:00:12.470Z Ay, your god of poets there, whom all of you admire and reverence so much, Homer, he whose worm-eaten statue must not be spewed against but with hallowed lips and grovelling adoration, what was he? Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z And for all his grovelling last night, he is a dangerous man. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z I repeat, I regard you with admiring awe, Leo; although I, poor grovelling earth-worm that I am, cannot climb to your sublime heights. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z Fate seemed playing into his hands at last, and springing to the door he threw it open, and saw to his intense astonishment the figure of Colonel Darcy grovelling on the floor of the hall. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z His crime was that he had granted her wish and consented to play this dummy hand; and now the deed was done he was not grovelling to her or to Tony Severance. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z From the contemptuous critic he was transformed into the grovelling lackey. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Oh, and if any counties release a player in unfortunate circumstances, we'll be sure to bring you the grovelling follow-up press releases as and when they happen. The latest on KP, Shah and the title race 2010-09-01T09:03:00Z Pleading guilty in front of a Texas judge in February 2008, the British bankers delivered grovelling apologies. NatWest Three claim guilty plea was extracted under duress 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z And instead of celebrating bumper peak viewing figures of more than 20m for the England match, ITV was instead having to issue a grovelling apology. Robbie Earle sacked by ITV after World Cup ticket giveaway 2010-06-15T20:13:00Z Needless to say, it was Tang who landed up in a miniature version of Hell: complaints and media scorn that was only assuaged by grovelling apologies. How to stop cheating 2010-06-15T09:38:00Z The firm was not content with issuing grovelling apologies and paying $850m in compensation. Schumpeter: Brand rehab 2010-04-08T11:32:00Z It may have to issue a grovelling apology; or it may have to protest about the conduct of the trial. Rio Tinto chief Tom Albanese attempts to mend fences in China 2010-03-22T20:59:00Z But, however this may be, it certainly was not at the first outset the mere grovelling and unmitigated blackguardism which it was very shortly to be. A Cursory History of Swearing Thrice Dido tried to raise her drooping head, And, panting, thrice fell grovelling on the bed. Heathen Mythology It was Ulrich, and the woman was grovelling at his feet. The Undying Past I don't mean a beggarly, servile, grovelling perseverance, but the unsubdued determination of an unconquerable spirit, riding out the storm, and, while small craft sink on every side, disdaining to take in a single reef. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 Thus all were united and amiable; no selfish and grovelling feelings introduced themselves to mar the cordiality of affection, or interfere with motives so upright and so honourable. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 It’s mean, and contemptible, and base, and grovelling! By Birth a Lady Such an ideal, soaring into the pure cold regions of virgin snow, left the great mass of men grovelling in filth and darkness. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius In conceit many a man and woman has found salvation, yet the average person goes on all-fours grovelling after modesty. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man It would be to exchange a paradise for a pandemonium; high, exalted thoughts and feelings for low and grovelling ones. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I So the Major, grovelling there beneath the moon, knew an agony in his stricken soul, deeper, fiercer than flesh may ever know; and thus, towards the dawn-hour, Sergeant Zebedee found him. Our Admirable Betty A Romance Their food is mostly maize, and their dress corresponds with this grovelling wretchedness. History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 Never, even in those days of self-abasement, did the Senate sink so low as in its grovelling homage to the servile minister. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Sting-rays were frequently seen on the sandy bottom or grovelling for worms in the muddy banks under water. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 2 What have we further to look forward to but those earthly joys known to the most grovelling mortal? Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I A more abject superstition could scarcely have made void the spirit, while grovelling before the letter of the commandment. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus There is every reason to believe that if he had adopted a grovelling, even a conciliatory tone, he would have been acquitted. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy If he had walked upon cerulean heights on Sunday he was grovelling in the depths on Monday. Hempfield A Novel No man e’er found a happy life by chance; Or yawn’d it into being with a wish; Or, with the snout of grovelling appetite, E’er smelt it out, and grubb’d it from the dirt. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes The horse of the sergeant leapt wildly neighing with emptied saddle over the garden hedge, whilst its gigantic master lay miserably grovelling in the dust. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle There was bliss in humiliating himself before her, in grovelling at the feet of her whom he adored. Years of Plenty The incipient steps towards this object began as far back as the time of Christian II., more than three centuries ago, while most of the European States were grovelling in ignorance. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia “I have to live with these poor, grovelling worms, but at least I need not associate with them!” The Daughters of a Genius I rose to carry out the King’s orders, and upon the faces of the grovelling messengers was an awful expression of set, hopeless despair. The Induna's Wife “Jest look lively, me lad, will yer?” sang out one of the salts, as he gripped the shoulder of one of the grovelling enemy. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War We were all screaming with fear, grovelling upon our hands and knees to get away from it. The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen Yes, but for the sudden intervention in the shape of good old Papa Péron, he might have drifted into evil courses like the wretched creature grovelling at his feet. The Intriguers For to all grovelling, debasing vice she adds a monstrous, cold-hearted cruelty. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. Screaming, grovelling in abject fear, the miserable herd crept forth. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley If you fall, do not lie grovelling, but rise upon your feet once more, and struggle bravely on. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, or the like, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. The Book of Courage “That is true, Monsieur; you are very clever,” replied the grovelling man in a fawning voice. The Intriguers General, dear; general, honey, don't sintince me! don't, for the love o' God!' and in grovelling terror the miserable creature threw himself on his knees to beg for mercy. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune She would carry her baby thence and bury it under the stone, safe from the grovelling of wolves. Seeds of Pine The mind soars by an effort to the grand and lofty: it is at home, in the grovelling, the disagreeable, and the little. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time I was deeply mortified—cut to the quick, I may say, if that will express my sense of grovelling shame any clearer—when I arrived here and saw what you were doing. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories We want to be worshipped too, and have somebody 'Less than the Dust' grovelling at our feet. Loyal to the School The holy bond that unites the grovelling nature below with glory above, has its humble type on earth in those who, separated by fate, are together in affection. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life In the morning, when he was ready to depart, he went to mass, and there saw the thirty ladies kneeling, and some of them grovelling upon the tombs, with the greatest sorrow and lamentation. Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur The latter was completely overthrown, and in the most literal sense, for he was grovelling in the dust at the feet of S. Thomas, while his disarranged turban had fallen from him. Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions This as Colliver, with a terrible cry, collapsed suddenly and fell to the floor shrieking and grovelling. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories Contempt and scorn for her fickleness, not love—base and grovelling love—should ever be associated with her image, when undesiredly it arose to my repelling memory. Wau-nan-gee or the Massacre at Chicago A Romance of the American Revolution See, on the earth I grovelling kneel—my straining eyes seek thine: Turn, turn to me; say not those words again; Thou canst not, dearest. Olla Podrida He sped but poorly, as it proved, for within a short time he was hurled grovelling to the earth. Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur Standing upright, I spurned the form grovelling now at my feet. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas Through all this Colliver had not once ceased grovelling and screaming; but it was not his cries that had drawn that gesture from Cleek. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories A forefinger extended with a threatening waggle was sufficient to rob her of every vestige of self-control, while the play of her brother’s fingers over her ribs reduced her instantly to grovelling submission. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted Jake gave a shriek of terror and fell to the ground, grovelling at the lawyer’s feet. A Campfire Girl's Happiness Prostrate, trembling, grovelling on the ground, the poor old woman weeps and prays. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Six months from now, you'll see the Yankees grovelling at our feet, begging for admission along with us. Cudjo's Cave Not till then do its grovelling wants, its wearing cares, its stinging vexations, become to us ministering spirits, each one, by a silent but certain agency, fitting us for a higher and perfect sphere. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings It would be better, far better that she should die than that she should not be compelled to abandon this grovelling abasement. Lady Anna But until these gifts of a lofty civilization are secured, men are sure to remain low, debased and grovelling. Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 He is early disgusted with the dirty, grovelling life of your easy-going, shiftless, contented old campaigner, and inwardly resolves to adopt a genteeler regimen. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 Hence detraction is a sign of a weak, ignoble spirit; it is an impotent and grovelling serpent, that lurks in the hedge, waiting opportunity to bite the heel of any nobler creature that passes by. Talkers With Illustrations It was not life at all, but a mere grovelling. Coquette Do I want to see the smartest people in London grovelling for anything they think they're likely to get out of me? The Brass Bottle However, I wish he would not be so at my expense, who have no particle of that exquisite quality in my whole composition, and find the grovelling one of avarice growing daily upon me. Records of Later Life What with this deep earth-covering, and with their grovelling toward the earth in such a flat and neighborly fashion, they had a dreadfully under-foot look, and seemed rather dens than houses. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 Nature does indeed lift the soul on a quiet evening from the grovelling occupations of earth to bask in the genial sunshine of a more spiritual existence. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit The four, then blindly grovelling over the carpeted bed, were now perfectly sheltered in the still heaving hollow of their mother's flank. Finn The Wolfhound The ape-man came on; he was grovelling upon the ground. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 An elderly man, but whether passenger or seaman it was impossible in the darkness to determine, lay grovelling on his belly in the wet scuppers, and kicking feebly with his outspread toes. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Elsewhere it lifts the man of science above the grovelling idea that discoveries must be sought solely for the purpose of utility. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Manske bowed and apologised profusely for having disturbed the Herr Untersuchungsrichter at his repast; he felt the necessity of grovelling before these persons whose power was so almighty. The Benefactress The pups had already reached the stage of grovelling about outside the den, and pursuing the few live things of the insect type who affected that stony spot. Finn The Wolfhound Your Excellency has only seen those who lead a grovelling existence in the city. Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' Are you not afraid that Master Merton should insensibly contract bad habits, and a grovelling way of thinking? The History of Sandford and Merton The view entertained concerning deity was eventually grovelling; the greatness of nature seemed to inspire no reverence. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion A shrill cry broke from the poor young creature, who had fallen forward grovelling in the bed. Mabel's Mistake And in this very passage of the essay on Atheism we also see the grovelling side of Lord Bacon, with a corresponding perversion of intelligence. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) No grovelling and no soaring was here, but an elation almost stern, a brooding concentration almost maternal, a dedicated power. Tante Little grovelling minds, indeed, which are always envious of their superiors, might give a disagreeable turn to the generous openness of this young nobleman's temper. The History of Sandford and Merton From their earliest infancy they have known no language but the English, and no religion but Christianity; while the former are still barbarians, grovelling in fetishism, cursed with slavery, ignorant, debased, and wantonly cruel. The History of the First West India Regiment Mouldy, grovelling, fat Papists! he called them, and vowed that he would resign from the Improved Tories if any more of that sort were asked to address them. Changing Winds A Novel We do not say that those who do not share our opinion of Buddha, Socrates, Mohammed, Bruno, Cromwell, Danton, or even Plato or Shakespeare, are grovelling materialists and candidates for perdition. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) He is worthy of his subject, for he is entirely free of the grovelling utilitarian spirit, the disgrace and the bane of the age in which he writes. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 It was as if they had indeed captured their god, these worshipers of the sun, had captured and held it for the adoration of the grovelling people. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 It's not as if you were a millionaire and I a grovelling pauper. Audrey Craven Now there was a fiend grovelling at her feet, a foul, sin-stained fiend. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories The dog rose from his grovelling posture and came eagerly forward, wagging his lank tail. The Hound From The North "What are ye grovelling down there for, ye drunken beast?" shouted the angry waiter, as he came down with a thud. The O'Ruddy A Romance No one considers himself degraded by grovelling before a plutocrat. The Red Hand of Ulster That character, to borrow a homely but forcible metaphor from Burns, was the sustaining ‘stalk of carle hemp’ which bore it up and kept it from grovelling on the depressed level of its condition. Leading Articles on Various Subjects Compare that moment of exaltation with the grovelling life of your Christians! Lotus Buds This grovelling in ditches is a rotten, foolish business in many ways—though to me sitting in comfort and safety behind the lines is a great deal worse. War Letters of a Public-School Boy He slipped to his knees, threw himself upon the floor, and lay grovelling at Hornigold's feet. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main I never meant—" "But I do mean it, you grovelling coward. Australia Revenged For all my enemies of a week ago turned flatterers and flunkeys, bowing, grovelling, fawning, contemptible in their self-abasement, but quite useful to my purposes. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess "No! no!" the wretched youth cried, almost grovelling before him. The Wild Geese To Bobinette, the abject creature grovelling in the mire of the roadway, the bells sounded vaguely serene, far, far away.... A Nest of Spies He had been grovelling, pleading, weeping, beseeching, but the utter uselessness of it at last came upon him and some of his courage returned. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main The man was grovelling in the sand in abject fear and gratitude. In the Musgrave Ranges He lashed her so long, and he lashed her so sore, That grovelling she lay in a stream of red gore. The Tale of Brynild, and King Valdemar and his Sister Two Ballads Well, it isn't grovelling yet in the mire with popular fiction, but it is standing still, and whatever is standing still is going backward, or at least other things are passing it. Imaginary Interviews The people, cowardly and grovelling under apprehensions, were proud and cruel in their transports; at the same time that they trembled under their magistrates, they were dreaded in their turn by their miserable vassals. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) He might then have been justly despised, and characterized as being of the earth, earthy—incapable of high and generous sentiments and aspirations—sordid, grovelling, and utterly despicable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Now he was a thing cast off, a broken boy grovelling at the foot of the ladder of fame. The Light of the Star A Novel When death's grim aspect meets the startl'd view To grovelling souls fair mercy bids adieu! As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century With every limb strained and distorted, the miners pursue their cramping labours, grovelling on the earth. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France Be that as it will, no profession in Egypt was considered as grovelling or sordid. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) This is one of those curiosities of history the key of which is found in the grovelling nature of most human ambition. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series Thus the faith of the people, as a whole, is far removed, in its grovelling thought, its idolatrous practices, and its thousand-headed ritual, from the teaching of Higher Hinduism. India, Its Life and Thought I have a weakness for this singular genius, who combined the delicate with the grovelling, and I have rarely seen richer examples. A Little Tour of France The heart of man has been made for something higher and more noble than these grovelling objects of sense and time. A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education He thought that he had out-distanced Radicofani and stumbled on, exultation giving him new strength when a sudden eclipse of this star of hope made him crouch motionless, grovelling close to the earth. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) His knee came up where it could do most damage, and Robert sank grovelling to the floor. Lease to Doomsday Beggars display their stumps and their sores, grovelling on the ground like brutes. Appearances Being Notes of Travel When thirty centuries ago our ancestors were grovelling in the lowest depths of primitive savagery, our fellow-Aryans of India were enjoying a civilization of their own, which was, in its way, unique and distinguished. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ No; let thy heaven-taught soul to heaven aspire, To fancy, freedom, harmony, resigned; Ambition’s grovelling crew for ever left behind. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems A German isn't a human being when you come to look at it—he's just a mean beast, a bully when he's top dog, and a grovelling worm when he's cornered. With Haig on the Somme Her eyes stabbed me, the while I stood there dogged yet grovelling, no word coming to my dry lips. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 The wretches hearing this, instantly broke into all sorts of grovelling entreaties and oaths of fidelity. Athelstane Ford In this Horrible Dungeon did I continue for seven days more, mostly grovelling on the ground, my face downwards, and praying for Deliverance or Death. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... The Order was, that he was to be held as a Gentleman, and to be subjected to no grovelling indignities or base usage. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... Isaiah, cleansed, sanctified, and touched with Divine Fire, was a different person from the one who lay grovelling in the dust, and crying, 'Woe is me!' Standards of Life and Service At last the Knight smote Sir Mador grovelling to his knees, and the Knight stepped forward to have struck him flat upon the ground. The Book of Romance I thank God I have since walked through those same streets in a different trim, and had those same wretches bowing and grovelling on the earth as I passed. Athelstane Ford He will paint her as Circe, mocking at her grovelling herd of swine! Uncanny Tales She bends to grasp his hands and raise him from the grovelling adoration to her own level. When the Birds Begin to Sing I don't perhaps know what you mean by grovelling, Mr. Bertram. The Bertrams The first of those classes consisted of the selfish tyrants who upheld an unjust supremacy by systematic delusions, and of grovelling mountebanks who quenched their avaricious thirst at the fountains of credulity and ignorance. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler "Yes," replied the other, grovelling in the darkness under the table. The Long Trick He knew that he need only name himself and cry out "'Tis I..." to change to grovelling respect those haughty lips; but he found his incognito amusing. Tartarin On The Alps The poor, distorted figure threw itself down, grovelling at the Landhofmeisterin's feet. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg With a sense of grovelling meanness, Philip sat and listened. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Starting suddenly from his grovelling posture, he cried, fixing his eyes on De Vessey with a searching glance— "What brings thee hither?" Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 This was not war, this ignominious crawling, this grovelling in the soil, this halting! War and the Weird I would not in this world remain A grovelling thrall to paltry gain, But duty's path would fain pursue, True as the saints themselves are true. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Then he began to crawl straight for the horse, grovelling along upon his breast. Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure And he fell on his knees, grovelling on the floor like a fawning beast, with quivering hands clutching the young girl's robe, his forehead beating the ground at her feet. "Unto Caesar" Pepehi was grovelling before him, baring his breast and offering to Kamehameha the poisoned dagger he had but a few moments before aimed at the young king’s heart. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate “Very well for you, master, who have to navigate the ship, but we are above such grovelling notions,” answered Mildmay; “you have nothing Byronic in your composition.” The Three Commanders Viewed in the light of true philosophy, no less than of Christianity, how base and grovelling does this conception appear! A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' And in grovelling dust Before me you shall cringe, though all the world Shun me, your conqueror. Mr. Faust In conceit many a man and woman has found salvation, yet the average person goes on all fours grovelling after modesty. The Green Carnation Her master, her highest earthly guide, had fallen from his lofty place and lay grovelling at her feet. The Tyranny of the Dark She left him grovelling on the ground, his face slobbered with tears and grimy with the clay his hands rubbed over it. The Northern Iron This puts us somewhat at a distance from hypocrites and devout persons; as far indeed as modern Catholicism is from Mysticism, for certainly that religion is as grovelling on the ground as Mysticism is high! En Route I used to think before you taught me to drive, and I had the experience and the responsibility myself, that you wasted time grovelling to animal prejudices; but I've changed my mind. The Car of Destiny Lucifer.That is a grovelling wish, Less than thy father's—for he wished to know! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry She was pleased that all the Court should see her thus grovelling. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Far more really than he saw the dim church and the trees, he saw Finlay grovelling on the ground and the stern men crouching over him. The Northern Iron He was tired of grovelling—nauseated with catering to a public that paid in rutabagas and elk meat that was “spoilin’ on ’em.” The Fighting Shepherdess And such a grovelling end will naturally make a man unscrupulous as to the means to attain it. Janet's Love and Service For being dust, and grovelling in the dust, Till I return to dust? The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry And presently the king, realising perhaps that his grovelling was not doing any good, rose to his feet, and the message was duly delivered. In Search of El Dorado Rousseau's whole life was a series of self-indulgences, grovelling, sometimes, beyond what is conceivable to any one not learning of it all in detail from the man's own pen. Classic French Course in English But she still clung to his knees, grovelling on the ground before him. Orley Farm Base and grovelling as they were, these money-mongering Jews felt, in all that remnant of their souls which was not yet eaten away by infidelity and avarice, that the Son of Man was right. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern He ended; and clung clasping our knees and grovelling at them. The Aeneid of Virgil At last Sir Lancelot beat him to his knees, and then thrust him grovelling to the ground. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls "Do not be a grovelling sycophant," some of them seem to say, "but remember that courtly manners and tempered elegance can do you no harm." The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition That they in grovelling gain Have lost their ancient fire, And 'neath the despot's chain, Let liberty expire? The Liberty Minstrel Suddenly Sir Marhaus rose grovelling, and threw his sword and his shield from him, and so ran to his ships and fled his way, sore groaning. Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" What were we there but grovelling vassals, and what hope had we ever to be independent, or to own even a house in which to die? St. Cuthbert's We take it that Iago is a sharply intellectual personage, though his logic, warped by grovelling purpose, becomes sophistry, while lustful and envious intrigues occupy his skilful brain. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 But others were based on a positively grovelling ignorance of the circumstances governing the subject at issue. Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 Miss Shields had not studied Mr. Matthew Arnold, and was mercifully unaware that not to detect the "pinchbeck" in the Lays is the sign of a grovelling nature. The Mark Of Cain Wrapt, absorbed, with yearning eyes and shining faces, rising, stooping, grovelling with their foreheads upon their praying carpets. A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and grovelling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Why is it that a woman quails not, while they lie grovelling on the deck?” The Phantom Ship I once had wealth, but it was dissipated almost, not all, and I feared lest the remainder would be lost; then I became what you have known me, a wretched, grovelling miser. Ned Garth Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade Lola's success was assured; and Herr Frays, who had started by refusing to let her appear, was now full of grovelling apologies. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert I’ve been thinking it out while you were grovelling up there like a rat, and I think that the air will soon be all driven out of the mine by the water. Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea They were grovelling at his feet on the instant, and a driver behind me laughed. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East This was no delusion, for Bruff was standing beside him whining and shivering with terror, the monkey was grovelling in the sand, and all around there were eager voices inquiring: “What was that?” Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle It is impossible for those who are engaged in low and grovelling pursuits to entertain noble and generous sentiments. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources Then, as Johnson puts it, the 'effect of reality and truth became conspicuous, even when the intention was to show them grovelling and degraded.' English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Alas! this same poor whisperer heard his name called out that very night, and fell grovelling at my side, as if I could help him. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 He told the form all about it, and of course they all laughed too, the sniggering, grovelling sweeps! The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton “No, no! no, no!” cried the poor wretch, grovelling at the first-mate’s feet, and looking up at him appealingly. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and grovelling, and love of pleasure is that which renders us most despicable. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources Perkins screamed with mad fear and flung himself grovelling upon the floor. The Skylark of Space Sir Robert vowed, that if the perverse lad persisted in his grovelling choice, though he had but two sons, he would discard him altogether. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I Whereupon, there was a loud and general titter among all the beasts, that such an awkward and grovelling creature as he was should propose to himself such a dangerous and distant task. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 Hidden Life of the Christian. 1O happy soul that lives on high, While men lie grovelling here! Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination And you, wretched French revolutionists, with your love of petty precision, and irreverent radicals and utilitarians, with your grovelling material notions, propose to level, and destroy, and break in upon my delicious reveries. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) I would ask such persons, what would have been our state if the ancients had entertained such grovelling notions? Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 My soul was grovelling in the dust; my thoughts wholly engrossed by the world. The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I The white man had fallen prone and was grovelling weakly. The Spinner's Book of Fiction So to the first few flares we made profound obeisances, grovelling on the wet ground or behind the nearest patch of scrub as long as the stars illuminated the landscape. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 In order to bury his mistress, who has been ruined with him, he has to raise money by grovelling in the foulest depths of literary sewerage. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) "Poor fool!" exclaimed Mrs. Pimble, with great indignation; "you are grovelling in the mire of ignorance, and man's foot is on your neck to hold you there." Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Men fell grovelling, only to be dragged into the open air and resuscitated, then sent once more into the cruelty of the fight. The White Desert Or this— "Let narrow prudence boast its grovelling art To chill the generous sympathies of heart, Teach to subdue each thought sublimely wild, And crush, like Herod, fancy's new-born child." The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II It turned over in its sleep, the cover was hurled aside, and a grotesque object, round, pulpy, webbed, and of leprous whiteness—an object which Letty could hardly associate with a hand—came grovelling out. Scottish Ghost Stories But Emerson is as much his superior in that high and transparent sanity, which is not further removed from midsummer madness than it is from a terrene and grovelling mediocrity. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson Head Waiters paid him the most grovelling Attentions and bright eyes grew brighter yet when he suggested pulling a little Supper, with a $400 Souvenir at each Plate. Ade's Fables "I shall fall from my ideals when I am away from your influence, and again become the grovelling worlding that I was before I met you." The Farringdons She was poor, and studious, and obedient, yet a friendship had sprung up between her and me, and I was moved to forgive her the, in many respects, grovelling tendencies of her nature. Cape Cod Folks No more confined to grovelling scenes of night, No more a tenant pent in mortal clay; Now should we rather hail thy glorious flight, And trace thy journey to the realms of day. The Annals of the Poor In doing this he had fallen foul of Pope, who could claim no such merit for his own editorial work, and Pope therefore regarded him as a grovelling antiquarian. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series That gives him such a comfortable sense of superiority that he doesn't a bit mind grovelling before the other fellow. The Simpkins Plot The result of this trial was that Crooke paid £200 damages to Morgan and published a long and grovelling apology. The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Then deliver your nation from the disgrace and humiliation in which it is at present grovelling! Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia The grovelling Mole and creeping Shrew are as unlike the sprightly Tupaia, as it springs from branch to branch, whisking its long bushy tail, as it is possible to conceive. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon He was—if we must speak bluntly—a liar and a hypocrite; but the foundation of his character was not selfish or grovelling. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series The youth grovelling before him wondered to see him calm, and plucking up spirit stood upright. The Long Night The bold Ascalonite Fled from his lion ramp; old warriors turned Their plated backs under his heel, Or grovelling soiled their crested helmets in the dust. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys This action gave them some claim to help the boy, and the boy has accordingly been with them since in a comfortable, kindly home, instead of grovelling round the streets in squalor and nakedness. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma It may be that corruption, loose notions on the duties of citizenship, love of luxury, and grovelling materialism are even now sources of greater danger to the republic than civil war and threatened dissolution. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Here are heroes, with the heroism only skin deep; and peers, like their Graces of Bolton and Wharton, with less of the lofty, self-denying graces and the ancient chivalry, than the most grovelling of ploughmen. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes And grovelling on his face on the leads he clung to whatever offered itself. The Long Night He raised himself slowly, staring, and fell forward grovelling, attempting vainly to catch me by the ankles. Foe-Farrell Her starving woman’s soul called for food; the husks were offered in its stead; the bestial, grovelling, brutish swine’s husks. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 With some the motive is high, with others it is low and grovelling. Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions Hester Mason’s character, career, and fate appeared to me so strange, grovelling, and miserable, that I never for a moment doubted the whole dreary picture was from the life. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle What can be uglier than a country occupied by grovelling, coarse, and low-minded men?—no scenery can redeem it. The Last Harvest Who shall say what grovelling suspicions, what sordid conjectures, had blocked his inflamed mind as he drove swiftly across the downs in the still June morning? Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron A smile as cruel as his mouth crept into his eyes as he noted her grovelling, as he watched the anguish in her face. The Mark of the Beast The doctrine it seems is at once too elevated and too grovelling. Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists Wang was grovelling in the dirt at Lin's feet, but Lin answered him only with a loud laugh which finally burst into a roar. A Chinese Wonder Book Do not condescend to the grovelling wishes and vulgar errors of ordinary mortals. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Yusuf and some other Moors obstinately abstained from such a grovelling mode of "rendering to Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's," and contented themselves with saluting his highness in the Moorish fashion. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government So to heaven’s gates the lark’s shrill song ascends, But grovelling on the earth the carol ends. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham In agony of vanquish, down he kneeled, His hoary hairs disfiguring with the dust, 1009 And, grovelling, clasped the corpse, and both his hands outthrust. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor I tell all those small grovelling cells that extra nourishment would not be good for them. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches The wiser we grow the more natural we become; and on the rock of truth we can stand, feeling no jar, when the missiles of a grovelling mind are hurled against its base. The Harvest of Years Until this hour all Jacob's views and feelings seem earthly and grovelling. Notable Women of Olden Time Families late devoted to exalting and refined pursuits, rich, blooming, and young, with diminished numbers and care-fraught hearts, huddled over a fire, grown selfish and grovelling through suffering. The Last Man He cried, and, grovelling, our knees embraced, And, clasping, clung to us. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor To Sylvia they were rather grovelling means to a legitimate end. The Shield of Silence It was a piteous sight—the poor distorted reasoning faculty grovelling as a slave to the selfish will. A Dozen Ways Of Love He acted so like a crazed man, grovelling face downward in the grass, that I had to hold him, fearful lest his noise might attract attention from our enemies. When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country It was composed of rude mud hovels, stuffed with a population of half-breeds, a half-naked gipsy-looking people, grovelling in the dirt, and breathing an atmosphere reeking with the stench of filth, garlic and frying fat. Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors He was the laughing-stock of all his friends who were in the secret; who saw him grovelling at the heels of a disagreeable woman who had made him conspicuous by her aversion. The Helpmate Swept by a superstition stronger than hate, they flung themselves at her feet, prostrating their faces to the rock, grovelling like worms, heedless of all except her presence and her supremacy. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France The man, rolling surly yet intimidated eyes over his shoulder, after a staggering recovery from a fall, muttered something in an unintelligible patois, the grovelling, slurring whine of his kind. The Debtor A Novel Who shall teach children, in these days of light and improvement, the grovelling doctrine of neutrality, this relic of the peripatetic philosophy? Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. They do not belong to the grovelling tribe of herbs that bend and refuse to break like portulaca, chickweed, and pusley the accursed. The Garden, You, and I The man remained stupidly, idiotically dumb, only grovelling lower and more abjectly each time. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood "The modest virgin," says Juvenal, "turning down her thumb, orders that the breast of yonder man, grovelling in the dust, shall be torn open." The Wonders of Pompeii Dare not, like some, to mince the matter— Nor dazzling tropes and figures scatter, Nor coarsely speak nor basely flatter, Nor grovelling go: But let plain truths, as Life’s pure water, Pellucid flow. Cottage Poems ‘He is usually very civil indeed, almost grovelling, to the father,’ said Lady Bude. The Disentanglers Wherefore, then, do not these grovelling, worm-like men pause to meditate upon these traditions, all of which are manifest as the sun in its noon-tide glory? The Kitáb-i-Íqán They sometimes lose the human semblance and assume more sinister shapes, grovelling as hideous serpents, bleeding and wailing from shrubs and trees, or bubbling in a slushing stream. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 The hut and the dirt, the rags and the skin, The grovelling want and the darkened mind,— I looked on this; but the Lord, within: I would what he saw was in me to find! The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation These could not be inventions of the grovelling authors who relate them. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Now he stood glowering indignantly upon the grovelling bearer. Caste I for one would rather die following a noble vision than lie grovelling among the broken shards of life. Glen of the High North But there, what can you expect from a low, grovelling beetle? Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling And he is a poor politician who expects to see political liberty achieved or enjoyed by nations made up of 'base, grovelling' specimens of human nature. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles This would be treated very differently when it arose from mental defects—from a tendency to love other things, great or grovelling, or from a sluggish or overactive digestion. Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah When I had raised his grovelling fate from ground, To power and love, to empire, and to me; When each embrace was dearer than the first; Then, then to be contemned; then, then thrown off! The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 It permits of no meanness in its train; it expels vulgarity, and, with a high stretch toward perfected humanity, it unearths the grovelling nature, and gives it aspirations of sand and sunshine. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia It took a later generation of Chippewayans to display that care for their posterity which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling nature. Young Lion of the Woods A Story of Early Colonial Days The priests of nearly all religional denominations ascribe to Deity the low grovelling vindictive feelings which agitate and disgrace themselves. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles The thought that this little mortal, grovelling before him, could believe himself able to repay the kindnesses received tickled him immensely. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology She dragged herself up at once, but remembered and fell grovelling on the floor and wept. The Judge She was grovelling on her knees before me in a moment, calling me her dear Leah and imploring me to shield her. Uncle Max With the word Spike sobbed and fell grovelling on his knees. The Definite Object A Romance of New York Themselves essentially vulgar by habit and in feeling, their estimate of human tendencies is of the meanest, the most grovelling description. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles After the perplexing, and often low, grovelling duties of my profession, it was like sitting at the gate of heaven. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 He stands scornfully erect amid the grovelling influences that would pull him down. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 It was too grovelling a pursuit, too mean a vocation, to make and to hoard money. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Ragged urchins waylaid him, the girls and the old women put their heads out of the doors and gaped after him, while a group of children who were grovelling on the shore cheered him lustily. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel The highest advice I have heard on these subjects was grovelling. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 And now here they are grovelling before brute forms painted on the walls in a hole in the dark. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII That reminds me," said the Doctor, recalling himself from a downward look at the grovelling Browett, "she made me promise to be in at four o'clock. The Seeker Too frequently are great abilities coupled with a mean spirit, and transcendent genius underlaid with a low, grovelling nature; but these may be known by the peculiar form or development of the cranium. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Then, my thoughts once more returning to the Black Plague grovelling in the snow, I felt a shivering of horror. The Man-Wolf and Other Tales The poor grovelling worm turns under the foot of the pedestrian. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens Priests ascribe to Deity the low, grovelling, vindictive, feelings which agitate and disgrace themselves. Superstition Unveiled I do confess, without reserve or wheedle, I view that grovelling idea as one Worthy some parish clerk's ambitious son, A charity-boy, who longs to be a beadle. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood Then the Red Knight smote Gareth on the hand that his sword flew from his grasp, and with another blow he brought him grovelling to the earth. Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion Then out of a blue sky a voice said: "I'll get it for you," She was pushed firmly aside and a figure in a blue coat was grovelling adventurously beneath the trap. The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World His religion, in many places, put out the ineffectual fires of the fetich-house, and lifted the grovelling thoughts of idolaters heavenward. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens Judith, we are two upright minds in this Herd of grovelling cowardice. Emblems Of Love One of his delights was to return to a house which he had quitted years ago, to behold the excitement and bustle occasioned by his appearance, and play the good-natured autocrat over grovelling dependents. Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages "I—I—want you—to—to—love me," sobbed Chaldea, grovelling on the grass. Red Money Nay, put on, put on again, sweet sir; why should you be uncovered before the fop your master, the wretched wight, the mortal of a grovelling soul? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 It is to have faculties exalted beyond the comprehension of the multitude; to soar above the grovelling world. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times It wasn't so easy to continue humbugging—as from son to parent—after feeling one's self despised for not grovelling in mediocrity. Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages The Adoee is found, but always keeps at the bottom, the structure of its mouth pointing out its grovelling habits. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Far off, along the pathway of the morn, lay his former home, the States, the East, the fight, the combat, and the grovelling. Heart's Desire He is believed to have had in view Alleyn or even Shakespeare: Vile world that lifts them up to high degree, And treads us down in grovelling misery! A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Oft would she pray the God of grace His lofty spirit to abase; Upward his grovelling thoughts to raise, And teach him humble prayer and praise. Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI. For now at last it was huge, strong, insatiable, swollen and distorted out of all size, grown to be a monster, glutted yet still ravenous, some fearful bestial satyr, grovelling, perverse, horrible beyond words. Vandover and the Brute I humbly asked, grovelling unscientifically at his feet. The War of the Wenuses When I picked myself up, I saw half the men securing the crate and the other half grovelling around something on the deck. Jaffery The Muscovite temperament and the Muscovite climate naturally lead to idealist strivings against the hardships of life or a dull grovelling amongst them. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) The three servants still are grovelling on the floor. Five Little Plays Mr. Hume, a parsimonious economist, of niggard principle and grovelling sentiment, undertook the office of coercing the Irish. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 We rise above the grovelling creatures of earth, and aspire to the Infinite. Thrift How'd they know, the poor dubs, that a poet wasn't something a business man had ought to be polite and grovelling to? Somewhere in Red Gap Chantelouve and taken refuge under the bed, but had now advanced almost grovelling, to sniff the chair where she had sat. Là-bas It is this hero of the Neva and Lake Peipus, this vanquisher of the Scandinavians and Livonian knights, that we are presently to see grovelling at the feet of a barbarian. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) Your obeah charlatans are grovelling in their cellars. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories Virtue, throwing open heaven to those who deserve not to die, directs her progress through paths of difficulty, and spurns with a rapid wing grovelling cowards and the slippery earth. The Works of Horace The bottom of the pass was strewn with grovelling, shrieking bodies, trampled beneath the feet of their uninjured but insane companions. Nedra While the choir boys sprinkled holy water on the pontiff's nakedness, women rushed upon the Eucharist and, grovelling in front of the altar, clawed from the bread humid particles and drank and ate divine ordure. Là-bas The tendency of caste, you will hear it gravely urged, is to elevate the upper classes on the highest possible pinnacle, and keep the Pariah grovelling in the dust. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore "Appears to me the fighting these days is grovelling in the dirt and taking care nobody don't get hurt!" The Last Shot I found it grovelling along the ground, tangled and wild, and twining round every worthless weed, and it struck me as an emblem of myself: a mere scatterling, running to waste and uselessness. Tales of a Traveller Pie had fallen, and was grovelling, cursing, screaming, praying on the steps. Nedra It was with the greatest difficulty, and only after a grovelling apology, that he had succeeded in making his peace. Lady Connie Caste, then, seems naturally to have arisen from the idea that to associate in any way with people of bad habits and grovelling ideas is an intolerable degradation. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore He would not be grovelling at such grotesque shrines; no indeed. The New Jerusalem It may be said that all this argued grovelling inclinations. Tales of a Traveller As the sailors pushed off, he threw up his hands and wailed aloud; and then the whole tribe behind him fell grovelling in the sand. Nedra Within a week England was grovelling in the dust at the feet of her conquerors. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 1, 1891 Shall the soaring soul of a three-volumer be restrained by the debasing fetters of a grovelling exactitude? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 Even his detractors—those who count in letters—have admitted that his nature and his methods were too high-handed for grovelling and deceit, that the mettle of his courage was unsurpassed. The Conqueror Why should I not stamp the miserable life out of you as you lie grovelling at my feet? The Lord of Dynevor Nevertheless, though these Poems contain some detestable passages, the effect, as Dr Johnson well observes, 'of reality and truth became conspicuous even when the intention was to show them grovelling and degraded.' Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations In his shrinking, grovelling modesty, he made for his dark corner. Pardners If you fall, do not lie grovelling; but rise upon your feet once more, and struggle bravely on. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II Can the affections be so highly raised as mine are on these occasions, and the thoughts creep grovelling like one's ordinary self? Pamela, Volume II To the accusation that pleasure is a mean and grovelling object of pursuit, the answer is, that human beings are capable of pleasures that are not grovelling. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics Wrestling was, at an after period, I cannot say in what year, superseded by football; a grovelling and inglorious game in comparison. A Collection of College Words and Customs The old man, in a sudden revulsion of terror, was now grovelling along the floor, by one of the massive walls, clawing at the steel with impotent hands and screaming mingled prayers and oaths. The Air Trust So anon he thrust Sir Brewnor grovelling to the earth, and then unlaced his helm and struck off his head. The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights You can form no conception how much one grovelling in the city needs the excitement and impulse of literary example. Ralph Waldo Emerson Could the clear white flame that burned in the brains of the padres strike fire in their neophytes' narrow skulls, create a soul in those grovelling bodies? The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California Then I took to writing, but the motive was grovelling, for I aimed at gaining money and flattery. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters Rapt, absorbed, with yearning eyes and shining faces, rising, stooping, grovelling with their foreheads upon their praying carpets. The Tragedy of the Korosko Here it should be registered, in passing, that the resilience of Felicia Verity's inherent good-breeding saved her gratitude from any charge of grovelling, as it saved her many enthusiasms from any charge of sloppiness. Deadham Hard She became his very slave, grovelling at his feet. Love affairs of the Courts of Europe For this I would sacrifice the smiles of Courts, and incur the shallow sneers of the grovelling, chowder-headed horde of flunkeys who sit in high places. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890 But that is pure grovelling; no lively person ever does feel that—he says, 'Hang it, he has left some things out!' Father Payne Bart! what a poor, abject, grovelling thing you really are," he said bitterly, "when the word of a girl so overcomes you! when the slap of her little hand so benumbs and paralyzes you! Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio His uncle laid down the paper and fixed the young man with the gray, unsheathed keenness that had sent so many witnesses grovelling to the naked truth. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 King Louis spends half his time grovelling on his marrow bones before that saint and the Blessed Virgin. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy But as I gazed, a silent worshipper, Methought the cloud began to faintly stir; Then I fell flat, and screamed with grovelling head, 'If thou hast any lightning, strike me dead! The Wild Knight and Other Poems To live for mere money making is a grovelling existence, and utterly unworthy the aim of any man possessing the finer instincts of human nature and the intelligence with which it is endowed. A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California The soldier was on his knees, grovelling with face against the floor. Love under Fire The minds of the people, grovelling in superstition, and devoted, as St. Paul testifies of the Athenians, to the worship of unknown gods, were not prepared for the philosophic teachings of a pure theology. The Symbolism of Freemasonry In the good old days of the eighteenth century this generally took the form of a burst of grovelling adoration aimed at some most noble or otherwise highly important person. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil Leave thee there grovelling at their rusted greaves, These hulking cowards on a painted stage, Who, with imperial pomp and laurel leaves, Show their Marengo—one man in a cage. The Wild Knight and Other Poems To noble deeds fair poesie lends wings; She lifts them up from grovelling earth to sky, And bids them sit in light, and live and never die. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) Gentlemen of the Jury, I cannot believe that you will lend yourselves to such a grovelling prosecution—persecution, as this. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 The dedication seems absolutely grovelling when viewed from the present standards, but Mr. Rowe and his friends saw therein nothing more remarkable than respectful homage to one of the world's great men. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Borgia—It maybe so, or I should not be grovelling here. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832 The reader will remember that when the Periwinkle-girl was adored by two Dukes, the poet added— "A third adorer had the girl, A man of lowly station; A miserable grovelling Earl Besought her approbation." All Things Considered Pouring though it was, and grovelling admirer of footlight favourites as I am, somehow I never thought to offer either of them my umbrella. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917 Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a grovelling swine? Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook We cannot sufficiently censure such irreverence to "hoar antiquity," or the contracted and grovelling ideas which actuate such village Vandals. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828 Attend, my soul! the early birds inspire My grovelling thoughts with pure celestial fire; They from their temperate sleep awake, and pay Their thankful anthems for the new-born day. The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 Poetry, like Religion, must be free from all grovelling feelings; and above all, from jealousy, envy, and uncharitableness. Famous Reviews One great upright pyramid like this was worth a continent of grovelling acres. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Dennis was cheerful enough when he "turned off" others, but when he himself ascended the gibbet he showed a most grovelling and craven spirit.—C. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook She found her cottage surrounded, and her path beset, by a herd of grovelling pounds-shillings-and-pence hunters, whom her very soul loathed. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII |
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