groveller

1 It was a grovel supreme, a grovel incarnate, the ultimate groveller's grovel.

2 “You—you cold-blooded groveller, without soul to worship anything greater than that!”

3 Oh shade of Wordsworth, to think that so unutterable a grub and groveller as I am should dare call anything of thine Stodgy!

4 He who knows us infinitely better than we know ourselves, often puts a thorn in our nest to drive us to the wing, that we may not be grovellers forever.

5 Possibly some uninspired groveller, who has never climbed Parnassus, nor drunk of the Castalian spring, may murmur that this is very likely, for that all poetry is "moonstruck madness."

6 A classic cannot reveal itself to a groveller or to a critic.

7 I know I'm a fool and a groveller; but I'm going mad for love of you.

8 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.

9 And charm some grovellers to uplift their eyes And suddenly wax conscious of the skies.

10 Indeed from that day, her spirit being the spirit of the true snob, the hectorer of the humble, the devout groveller in the courtyards of the great, she was a much-changed woman.

11 They are grovellers, whose coarseness of taste is only fitted for the grossest food of life.

12 Have you no feeling for your profession, you groveller?

13 Among this lagging race of frosty grovellers he might still have risen into eminence, by producing something, which "they should not willingly let die."

14 You are a race of money schemers, money grovellers, lacking in high ideals and genuine spiritual life without which patriotism is an empty word.

15 Your brute, your beast, your groveller in ditches, is not nearly so dangerous.

16 If the cloud which Jupiter assumed was of the imperial tone and of the fascinating fashion which the groveller in the mud creates, Aegina would have been superfeminine had she not joyously surrendered.

17 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.

18 Because once a woman has climbed up with her children, she'll find plenty of grovellers ready to support her and suffocate any defiant spirit.

19 I must become a pander or a parasite—a hired tyrant over slaves, or a chartered groveller beneath nobles—if I would not starve miserably in the streets, or rob openly in the woods!

20 The squatter of half-a-century ago dominated his immigrant servants by moral force—no difficult matter, with a 'gentleman' on one side and a squad of hereditary grovellers on the other.

1 趴着的人

groveler

2 卑躬屈节的人

creeper groveler