II I struck him, hegrovelled of course-- For, what was his force?
The man grovelled on the ground, and hid his face from a being, whom, in some incomprehensible way, he regarded as an apparition from the other world.
He grovelled on the divan heavy in thought and with pendent arms.
Leonora could havegrovelled at Keller's feet, let him trample on her--make a carpet of her beauty.
Men renowned in Europe for their elegance--and their follies--have grovelled at my feet, and I have treated them worse than I have treated you.
Scarcely had he done so when there came a sudden fierce gust of wind that blew the Red Spirit through the window right to his very feet where he cringed and grovelled and fawned in the most abject manner.
The beasts grovelled and rolled over with pleasure when the Brownies playfully yanked and pulled their tails.
But two steps with the skis flung her headlong upon the snow, and while she grovelled there, struggling vainly to rise, she heard the awful blows above her like pistol-shots through the stillness.
Nap was standing just beyond the outspreading boughs of the cedar, a straight relentless figure, with the arrogance of complete mastery in every line, while at his feet grovelled and whimpered the great half-breed, Tawny Hudson.
And he grovelled on the earth weeping and tearing his hair.
He groaned and moaned under them, and grovelled on the floor.
Adrian fell upon the ground; he grovelled before his mother trying to kiss the hem of her dress, while Elsa sobbed aloud hysterically.
He rolled toward it, grovelled toward it, fell toward it when he was knocked down.
Wolf Larsen it was, always Wolf Larsen, enslaver and tormentor of men, a male Circe and these his swine, suffering brutes that grovelled before him and revolted only in drunkenness and in secrecy.
He was abject before Wolf Larsen and almostgrovelled to Johansen.
As he grovelled on his knees, the fat Mexican took him by the throat and said--"I am going to kill you!
The fat Mexican simply grovelled on his horse's neck.
Groups of these prisoners sat or grovelled on the ground, in attitudes expressive of the utmost sorrow and desolation.
He fell back screaming upon his couch, and for some time grovelled there--a heap of abject terror.
The Crop-eared one and the Black Bull Pup grovelled in an agony of terror.
This satisfactory part of the programme completed, Katie packed him off into the next room, and then, with the emotional and demonstrative nature of her people, literally grovelled in the dust before Dorothy.
Weak nations which abjectly sent tribute by commissioners who grovelled before the august Emperor of the Middle Kingdom, or barbarous tribes which the Chinese regarded about as Americans regard the aboriginal Indians.
In a few moments four of them lay stretched senseless on the deck, while beneath the rail grovelled the huge ruffian whom Owen had brought down, still hugging his shins, for one was broken.
She gazed wildly upon my face--she stretched out her arms as though to clasp me; then, in the agony of her despair, she cast herself at length and grovelled upon the ground.
I grovelled on the ground and wept tears of agony for the lost unchanging past--wept till I could weep no more; but no answer came from the silence--no answer but the echoes of my grief.
When detected, Ferdinand betrayed his associates, andgrovelled to his parents.
When at last the inevitable revolt came in 1820 hegrovelled to the insurgents as he had done to his parents, descending to the meanest submissions while fear was on him, then intriguing and, when detected, grovelling again.
He grovelledas the feet of Learmont—he sobbed—wept—prayed—implored for mercy!
She cast herself prostrate upon the stone floor, and grovelled there with weeping and with the bitterness of shame.
Grocott's ear and twisting it until the old rogue grovelled on the floor.
He grovelled before her; it may be that he was of a nature to benefit by the experience.
But Pettitt only grovelled lower on the floor, deaf to prayers, orders, threats.
One after another the recalcitrant members grovelled in the dust before him, and begged that he would show them mercy.
Before the common people Gustavus grovelled in the dust.
The owner of the house was present and asked for Rushton's bill, for which he at once gave them a cheque and Rushton and Misery almost grovelled and wallowed on the ground before him.
Instead of helping to do this, they abased themselves, and grovelled before their oppressors, and compelled and taught their children to do the same.
Devoid of every ennobling thought or aspiration, they grovelled on the filthy ground, tearing up the flowers to get at the worms.
And then the workers bowed down and grovelled before those who had robbed them of the fruits of their labour and were childishly grateful to them for leaving anything at all.
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