Domestic polity was still an undeveloped science, and their leisure fell to be spent upon intellectual objects, or in grovelling debaucheries.
Addressing themselves to the spirit rather than to the eye, they sought to delineate features with nought of "the earth, earthy," expressions purified from grovelling interests and mundane ties.
Be that as it will, no profession in Egypt was considered as grovelling or sordid.
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.
Pope's manuscript supplies various readings of this line: puzzled to flattered puzzling to blustering grovelling low-thoughted To working statesmen and ambitious kings.
His followers soon disregarded the means in their impatience to reach the end, and epicureanism became synonymous with grovelling sensuality.
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.
Open the pages of Salvian, and you will soon be convinced that mortal degradation has invaded every city and town, and that all classes of society are grovelling in the lowest depths of corruption.
Here it is grovelling in the veriest mire of abasement.
But one among the rest, being on the top thereof, spake to the tree; but presently came down much aghast, and lay grovelling on the earth, three hours speechless.
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.
New ways I must attempt, mygrovelling name To raise aloft, and wing my flight to fame.
O souls, in whom no heavenly fire is found, Flat minds, and ever grovellingon the ground!
We see him chewing Ashes, grovellingin the Dust, and loaden with supernumerary Pains and Torments.
But Gay was in such a grovelling condition as to the affairs of this world, that his Muse would not stoop to visit him.
Johnson wrote: "The effect of reality of truth became conspicuous, even when the intention was to show them grovelling and degraded.
Had Pope with grovelling numbers fill'd his page, Dennis had never kindled into rage.
We had no commerce with civilized nations, and how could you suppose that, so grossly mean and grovelling as we are in all our ideas and usages, we should have invented a system so refined and spiritual as that in question?
Gerard in a fury of excitement and agitation flung himself on it and delivered a tremendous blow on its nose with his axe, and the creature staggered; another, and it lay grovelling with Gerard hacking it.
She had never before looked upon a countenance where a grovelling and villanous soul had written in such broad and unblushing characters its own worthlessness.
Behind me Burns was muttering what might have been a prayer; when the thing groaned again, a hollow, awful moan, thrilling with agony, that sent me grovelling upon my face as nearly dead as one could well be and yet breathe and know.
Shakspeare desired to elevate the scenes in which suchgrovelling characters played the principal part by all the artificial graces of poetry, and to prevent them from degenerating into mere farce.
So imbued was she with that sense of honour and of reverence for the Cæsarship, that she would not dwell in thought on that awful sight of the Cæsar grovelling in abject terror at her feet.
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.
Mr Pecksniff made a bow; a submissive, not to say a grovelling and an abject bow.
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?
Whish went the stick through the air, and Bruff crouched at his feet, grovellingin the sand, and holding up his wounded and bandaged paw as he whined piteously, as if that injury were sufficient to exempt him from being beaten.
This woman had stood between him and fortune, and it would have been happiness to him to see her grovelling in the dust, a beggar and an outcast.
This last sentence was accompanied by a bitter laugh, and produced a decided effect on the grovelling George, who slowly raised himself upon his hands, and, lifting his head, looked his cousin full in the face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grovelling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
