Grovellers

News, or is ot good old fashioned money in the form of some sinecure like so many other Beeb grovellers. ❋ Newmania (2008)

Varden, glancing at herself in a neighbouring mirror, and arranging the ribbon of her cap in a more becoming fashion — ‘mere worms and grovellers as we are!’ ❋ Unknown (2007)

But let us stoop to take the wretch as he is, and make the best of him, since you are destined to stoop, to keep grovellers and worldlings in countenance. ❋ Unknown (2006)

'Right,' I said, keeping the card and carefully not yelping with delight as Arcellano and his grovellers made to depart. ❋ Gash, Jonathan (1981)

They are grovellers, whose coarseness of taste is only fitted for the grossest food of life. ❋ Various (N/A)

Even then he always assumed a condescension towards me, an air as of one who temporarily stepped down from a pedestal to mingle with common grovellers. ❋ Various (N/A)

You are a race of money schemers, money grovellers, lacking in high ideals and genuine spiritual life without which patriotism is an empty word. ❋ Cleveland Moffett (1894)

How dare you speak of angels in connection with your sinful fellow-beings -- mere '-- said Mrs Varden, glancing at herself in a neighbouring mirror, and arranging the ribbon of her cap in a more becoming fashion --' mere worms and grovellers as we are! ' ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1892)

It is very hard, I know, for one who has mirthfulness strongly developed, to restrain himself on all occasions; and what is solemn to one may not be so to another; hence we should be very charitable to all; alike to the bigots, the dreamers, and the laughers; to the builders of theoretic Babel-towers, and the grovellers on the low earth. ❋ Various (1840)

The main rift, however, lies between the grovellers, who want an outpouring of woe for Labour's past sins, and the levellers, who think Mr Miliband should square up to limited errors, then move on. ❋ Mary Riddell (2011)

Among this lagging race of frosty grovellers he might still have risen into eminence, by producing something, which "they should not willingly let die." ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

Among this lagging race of frosty grovellers he might still have risen into eminence by producing something which ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)

It would be too hideous if they knew that the one-time heiress of Riverside -- the accursed gorgon or lamia whose hateful crinkly coil of serpent-hair must even now be brooding and twining vampirically around an artist's skeleton in a lime-packed grave beneath a charred foundation -- was faintly, subtly, yet to the eyes of genius unmistakably the scion of Zimbabwe's most primal grovellers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In high school, this education system swells the ranks of grade-grovellers, teenagers driven by blistering desire for numerical validation. ❋ Carolyn Byrne (2008)

Some smooth as eggs, others spiky as mines; giants and dwarfs; giggling popeyed popinjays; blind grovellers; many flat as pancakes, yet others puffy as profiteroles .... ") ❋ Joe Sullivan (2010)

He concluded that wealthy Paris was dominated by "frauds," and "only the cynics and grovellers can get a place at the banquet ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

-- why, all its brother flames are grovellers to it! ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

The [Grovellers] gave Fround [United] a [lesson] in football ❋ Dgfc.co.uk (2004)

I want to see [my bitch] grovelling at [my feet] for hours until i think he knows what his [done] wrong ❋ Hecticmanetic (2015)

shit, it took [a fifth] of [tequila] and [3 o'clock] in the morning to get her in bed! and i barely even grovelled her tits before she passed-out. to grovel ❋ Sandspit (2007)

He went out last night with the guys and didnt [come home] until 4:30am. She was out of [ambien] and only slept for like an hour. She ripped him the biggest asshole and told him hes a man child and she won't have children with him until he gets his [shit together] ... Now he is groveling at her feet. ❋ Hamboner08 (2015)

Wow, she is [so hot]... [I would] totally grovel at her [feet]. ❋ Pwrlftr12000 (2006)

1. Hamish: Have you seen, [Mal's] out [grovelling] and its like a fucking lake. Gav: Yeah he's king of the [grov]! 2. Mal: Mick, you coming for a grov? Mick: You gotta be fucking kidding!! ❋ Maldore (2009)

Husband went out last night with the guys and didn't come home until 4:30am. Wife was out of [Ambien] and only slept for like an hour. Wife ripped husband the biggest asshole and told him he's a man child and that she will not have children with him until he gets his [shit together] ... And now he is [groveling] at her feet. ❋ Hamboner08 (2016)

Man hes got a good [case] of grovel rash. [No chance] of a [bonus] this year. ❋ Kennyrg (2010)

Jack: man I screwed up and told her I like her John: man you just met her 2 days ago..what did she say? Jack: she said she didn't know how she felt so I told her off John: [you're stupid], you better [apologise]. Jack: already on it. Wrote her a [grovel novel] on facebook. ❋ Theidian (2009)

"Did you see Matt [whining] that they weren't serving his favorite lunch in the [cafeteria] today?" "I know! What a [Groveling Ninny]." ❋ Das Nooten (2022)