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It was a grovelling fashion of existence: I should never like to return to it.
I received very grovelling letters in reply, on the bank's letterhead, and written to my address.
No grovelling jealousy was in her heart.
Wild wolf cubs beg for food from their mothers and also bark but they grow out of such grovelling behaviour.
"Hand me down my grovelling shoes."
Carla sent him a lawyer's letter, demanded that he pay her £500 and write a grovelling letter, which she now has framed.
His upper lip curled over rows of sharklike teeth as he addressed his grovelling underling.
The Court of Aldermen investigated these allegations, but before they had finished them they received a grovelling letter from the keeper of Whitecross Street Gaol tendering his resignation.
Greater Romania Party leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor called Macovei a "grovelling tool of Cotroceni Palace," which is the official office of President Basescu.
I begin to think I shall have strange experiences,' said I. 'I would not romance, if I were you,' replied the doctor; 'you will find, I fear, a very grovelling and commonplace reality.
He strongly criticised Ross's editing, but claimed the entire document was even more morally bankrupt than the published version: "A blacker, fiercer, falser, craftier, more grovelling or more abominable piece of writing never fell from a mortal pen," he wrote.
Parents sigh fatuously and mutter that it goes with the hair, and the one with red hair in the family explains how Great - Uncle Joe would mop up the floor with anyone in the barroom who said anything that was less than a grovelling compliment.
Are not you he, that filthy covetous wretch, With the three legs, that, here, in hope of prey, Have, any time this three years, snuff'd about, With your most grovelling nose; and would have hired Me to the poisoning of my patron, sir?
Moreover, it turns out that journalists, too, lay claim to a share in the groveling stakes.
IT is hard to imagine that even the most groveling of idolaters feels a need for more books on Shakespeare than are already on offer.
This is all part of a successful plan to conquer the Earth and the Calculator is left a groveling witness to various Libra-headed executions.
From the lofty perch, she surveys the groveling world with a look of supreme indifference that could be scorn, if it's not the effect of massive shots of Novocain.
Started in 1978, the Pun-Off gathers fans of wordplay to celebrate the pun, which English poet and literary critic John Dryden called "the lowest and most groveling kind of wit."
A groveling appeal by the crippled god Hephaestus to his mother, Hera, is high comedy, and a scrap between Zeus and Hera over what he has promised Achilles's mother, the low form.
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