1 Matvy Ilyitch Kolyazin, happening to be in temporary opposition, paid him a majestic visit; while the natives, with whom, however, he is very little seen, positively grovel before him.
2 Either to be a hero or to grovel in the mud--there was nothing between.
3 He heard the hateful clank of their chains; he felt them cringe and grovel, and there rose within him a protest and a prophecy.
4 It was a grovelling fashion of existence: I should never like to return to it.
5 His spirit rose, as it were, with a bound, and attained a nearer prospect of the sky, than throughout all the misery which had kept him grovelling on the earth.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE 6 He ended; and clung clasping our knees and grovelling at them.
7 In spite of superficial, fantastic and sham notions of honour and dignity, all but very few of us positively grovelled before Zverkov, and the more so the more he swaggered.
8 And it was not from any interested motive that they grovelled, but simply because he had been favoured by the gifts of nature.
9 It grovelled helpless on the ground, even while his intellectual faculties retained their pristine strength, or had perhaps acquired a morbid energy, which disease only could have given them.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER 10 An instant later he leaped at her, as she lay groveling at his feet.
11 He groveled on the ground and then springing up went careering off through some bushes.