One is sure to go fawning round some female, then they both enjoy giving each other away, and doing a new grovel before a woman again.
Men can't move an inch unless they can grovel humbly at the end of the journey.
You men grovel so in your ideas that you cannot understand the feelings of a true-hearted woman.
We are both here to see that justice is not made to grovel in the muck.
It would be," Emma admitted dryly, "with fifty or more unattached young men ready to grovel at your feet every time you make calf's eyes at them.
If you were lonely, very lonely, if you had searched through the years for companionship, and thought you might have found it, would it please you to have that companion drop to his knees, grovel before you?
Perhaps, by now, he would not prostrate himself and grovel in the dust, if someone said, "Hello!
Dear Mrs. Cotes, I grovel in the dust--so ashamed am I to have made no response to your so generous bounty and to have left you unthanked and unhonoured.
While Cæsar's chambers, and the Augustan halls, Grovelon earth in indistinct decay.
For they are as good antiquarians as any of those in Rome, who grovel amongst the ruins to bring to light the stump of a column, a fragment of a relief, an ancient inscription, a coin, or such matters.
Instead, I languish under the tyranny of a hundred thousand tyrants, before whom I groveland quake.
Swift then the vision changed, And he saw Stephen in the temple court Turn suddenly round on Saul his blinding face To threaten him with promise that, one day, He, Saul himself, should grovel in the dust Before the feet of Jesus crucified!
So I gratefully grovel for everything--and for your beautiful and generous inquiry of Skinner .
If thou showest her the cross, she will have to grovel and flee," said another.
Go and exist, and grovel like a toad or a slug, or any other noisome creature; you are not fit for the society of men!
Rend hearts and rend not garments for our sins; Gird sackcloth not on body but on soul; Grovel in dust with faces toward the goal Nor won, nor neared: he only laughs who wins.
He felt that he must speak, must grovel to her--repeat some of the things he had said in his letter.
Those who have it spurn dignities and honors, privileges and advantages, preferring, as I said in a former lecture, to grovel on the common level before the face of God.
Asceticism plays its part; and along with charity pure and simple, we find humility or the desire to disclaim distinction and to grovel on the common level before God.
They wish to mystify the mind, and make the soul grovel in sin and vice, from which condition the victims around whom they have woven their toils will only be permitted to escape by flying to the bosom of the Catholic Church.
I told you before, that it did not beseem you to grovel in the dust.
In order to maintain his very precarious position, Cromwell had been forced to grovel before a man, whom two years before he could have ordered about to his heart’s content.
We grovel in view of the vast distances of the fixed stars and their magnitudes, but these distances and these dimensions are a delusion.
A word from the Lord can cause the greatest to grovel in the dust!
If we suffer their minds togrovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
It makes you want to grovel on the ground--it makes you think you might crawl in the dust all your days, and well for you.
If so, gaze on, and grovelon thy face, Until thy head be circled with the same.
Mother Jourdain, be you prostrate and grovel on the earth.
Better perhaps fly fairly high, and come down now and again to rest, if one must, than grovel consistently and always," observed Ernest.
