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1. He had to grovel with Elmore to get him to swing the main scope and take a look for him as the moon came back around to their side of the planet
2. Doc got on to his hands and knees and pretended to grovel
3. “We can’t grovel in the ashes
4. Then he had to prostrate himself and crawl to within a few feet of the “august presence” at which point he had to grovel and beg sufficiently (with the aid of an interpreter) to be allowed to live
5. Jack was beginning to grovel now, his eyes gave away a desperate look; it would really cost him this time
6. grovel; it’s just that asking is a statement of faith
7. I had no special knowledge or talents to offer, so would I have to remain a ‘bottom feeder’ during my life there? How could I measure up to those who had training, schooling, connections, social standing, a family and a network behind them? Would I be marginalized as a reluctantly tolerated DP? Would I have to grovel or could I take my position among equals? I wasn’t looking for a place to sleep, I was searching for my future home that would last me to the end of my days
8. Washington Prince’s (and Princesses) of Grovel, (read; Congressmen and women, and Senators)
9. forgive me ” grovel ed the younger wolf
10. How easy is it to grovel and say, “I couldn't live a
11. to grovel before him
12. The Mongols razed China’s cities to the ground and forced the Chinese to grovel submissively at their feet
13. With 24 billion dollars in international aid frozen in the accounts of the common market nations because the relief organizations that need this money to feed the starving poor did not grovel enough, and act as properly servile slaves for the privilege of accessing a few thousand dollars of these billions
14. That is why rulers demanded all their oppressed subjects had to bow to them… kneel, kow-tow, grovel, and bend down in submission
15. I could have said yes then, but I wanted him to grovel some more
16. "Don't grovel on the ground there: up, this moment!"
17. These `charitable' people went into the wretched homes of the poor and - in effect - said: `Abandon every particle of self- respect: cringe and fawn: come to church: bow down and grovel to us, and in return we'll give you a ticket that you can take to a certain shop and exchange for a shillingsworth of groceries
18. For two and a half years, he’d been forced to grovel before sadists and imbeciles as he tried to protect his men
19. ‘Don’t grovel on the ground there up, this moment!’
20. We do not hide in pyramids or run from locust plagues to cower, grovel underneath the robes of Christ! We will stand forth
21. But before the torture you shall be mine for one short hour, and word of that too shall go forth to Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium, your grandfather, that he may grovel upon the ground in the agony of his sorrow
22. Are you to be happy while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness? You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains—revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food! I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery
23. He had to grovel before his ill-natured mother-in-law, to beg for the money for one bottle and then for another
24. Either to be a hero or to grovel in the mud—there was nothing between
1. "They say he appears and grovels on the ground and holds you by the legs and gibbers and moans like he did when he was alive
2. They are swindlers, only there the scoundrel wears polished boots and here he grovels in filth and sees no harm in it
3. His mother is now in the town; she is a delicate and ailing woman, aged beyond her years; she weeps and positively grovels on the ground imploring mercy for her son