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grovelling
1. Death! What was death compared to the unearthly possibility of falling into the clutches of Henry Warren's grovelling ghost? One warm July evening the three of them were sitting under the Tree Lovers, feeling a little lonely
2. Johan leapt towards his other side and landed on the soldier’s left arm and the two of them fell grovelling to the snowy earth
3. The girl could not flee; a moaning cry escaped her as her knees gave way and pitched her grovelling to the sward
4. Without looking her in the face, he gave her a grovelling apology,
5. It is he who goes to and fro amongst fallen Churches, persuading them to throw aside the Bible, and satisfy people with formal worship or grovelling superstitions
6. So he ought to reject his grovelling feebleness and stand up for battle
7. By their unceasing demands and grovelling, by my unjustifiable capitulations and good intentions, I drove my wage costs to near suicidal levels and when the hard times appeared I was the beaten, harassed captain of a sinking ship
8. hate your enemy as your closest friend, but when worshipping, recognize that it is the fault of some gods, that in their feet are their ears, so be it that you shout at the gods, instead of having to bow down, like a grovelling dog
9. He looked to the spot where Defarge the vendor of wine had stood, a moment before; but the wretched father was grovelling on his face on the pavement in that spot, and the figure that stood beside him was the figure of a dark stout woman, knitting
10. Meanwhile the really _new_ people are very often unobserved by them, or even despised as reactionaries of grovelling tendencies
11. Ever since the job was started, every time Mr Sweater had visited the house to see what progress was being made, Crass had been grovelling to him in the hope of receiving a tip when the work was finished
12. His spirit rose, as it were, with a bound, and attained a nearer prospect of the sky, than throughout all the misery which had kept him grovelling on the earth
13. “People of New England!” cried he, with a voice that rose over them, high, solemn, and majestic,—yet had always a tremor through it, and sometimes a shriek, struggling up out of a fathomless depth of remorse and woe,—“ye, that have loved me!—ye, that have deemed me holy!—behold me here, the one sinner of the world! At last!—at last!—I stand upon the spot where, seven years since, I should have stood; here, with this woman, whose arm, more than the little strength wherewith I have crept hitherward, sustains me, at this dreadful moment, from grovelling down upon my face! Lo, the scarlet letter which Hester wears! Ye have all shuddered at it! Wherever her walk hath been,—wherever, so miserably burdened, she may have hoped to find repose,—it hath cast a lurid gleam of awe and horrible repugnance round about her
14. He was grovelling in abject terror before Sotillo, but he remembered that much
15. new people are very often unobserved by them, or even despised as reactionaries of grovelling tendencies
16. 'Mercy, lord!' whined Wormtongue, grovelling on the ground
17. His eyes smouldered with anger, but he could not avenge himself: his miserable enemy lay grovelling on the stones whimpering
18. that was so near, and his grovelling promise made half in the fear of cold
19. Men cast from the saddle lay grovelling on the ground
20. Presently a man came by and saw her, and stood still, for he thought it was the Evil One who was grovelling so
21. nor candour, nor refinement in her mind or manners— and, I married her:—gross, grovelling, mole-eyed blockhead that I was! With less sin I might have—But let me remember to whom I am speaking
22. It was a grovelling fashion of existence: I should never like to return to it
23. By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives
24. Napoleon gave orders that this officer should be shot, and it was only by grovelling at the Emperor’s feet that the wretched man managed to get off
25. Meanwhile the really new people are very often unobserved by them, or even despised as reactionaries of grovelling tendencies
26. In the last ranks was the grovelling, confused mass of convicts
27. Do you know when she lay there asleep beside me (he laughs shrilly) I would hear him, pushing open the door, crawling into the room, coming to me on his hands and knees, grovelling, whining, begging me (he is almost shouting) for her, for her, imagine it! And I, I had to get up and give my place to him
28. And are we to regard as nothing the patriotic offer so often made by the States, to spend their last cent, and risk their last drop of blood, in the preservation of our neutral privileges? Or, are we to be governed by the low, grovelling parsimony of the counting room, and to cast up the actual pence in the drawer before we assert our inestimable rights?
