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  • Why was he groveling so much?†   (source)
  • Patsy bowed and groveled a bit when I turned to face him, but said nothing.†   (source)
  • Grovel?†   (source)
  • If she were bound for the gallows, she would most certainly not spend the last moments of her life in groveling submission.†   (source)
  • And the youngest was a groveler, a scrounger under the pews—I couldn't even remember what its sex was.†   (source)
  • We were in shaky transit that summer from the groveling status of Lower Middlers to the near-respectability of Upper Middlers.†   (source)
  • When I pulled into my driveway, I expected him to be there, ready to grovel and beg and provide me with even the smallest bit of an explanation, but he wasn't here.†   (source)
  • That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and grovel to it.†   (source)
  • Thinking of the conversation with Al, how he had groveled, still made him hot and cold by turns.†   (source)
  • In the final test, I faced that thousand-yard barren desert once again and began my journey, wriggling and scuffling through the dusty ground, my head well down, camouflage branches firm in my hat, groveling my way between the boulders.†   (source)
  • Dog goes down on his stomach, groveling about in the grass.†   (source)
  • Next date, he's really going to have to groveL But in the meantime, there's one other person who owes her one.†   (source)
  • The two creatures fell to the ground, groveling in the dirt, and I prayed like crazy that I really was invisible.†   (source)
  • THOO! and Vellya Paapen lying in the slush, wet, weeping, groveling.†   (source)
  • It was a brick wall surmounted with a huge boost from a mentor and some sincere groveling.†   (source)
  • "Do not grovel," he said.†   (source)
  • You couldn't endure seeing your Bene Gesserit witch grovel in Piter's pain amplifiers.†   (source)
  • Sloan continued to quiver, but he did not collapse and grovel as Eragon thought he might.†   (source)
  • His cane smacks a groveler, who leaps backward.†   (source)
  • Groveling, however, might not hurt.†   (source)
  • 'What joy it will be to grovel and abase myself before the Queen!†   (source)
  • (He straightens up and moves away from his mother, walking around the room) And maybe—maybe I'll just get down on my black knees … (He does so; RUTH and BENNIE and MAMA watch him in frozen horror) "Captain, Mistuh, Bossman—(Groveling and grinning and wringing his hands in profoundly anguished imitation of the slowwitted movie stereotype) A-hee-hee-hee!†   (source)
  • Hungry Joe snorted and pranced and pawed at the floor in salivating lust and groveling need, but the girl would not sell him the ring, even though he offered her all the money in all their pockets and his complicated black camera thrown in.†   (source)
  • He's also probably the first to get laid, groveling with a unit-mate after one of the first weekend's parties.†   (source)
  • Finding such a person, she would grovel and bow and scrape.†   (source)
  • She assured me I had a lot of groveling to do before we were totally good again.†   (source)
  • And a lot of my fantasies involve the ways in which Mia grovels for my forgiveness.†   (source)
  • We shook the governor's hand again and groveled our way out of the office.†   (source)
  • She turned her back on him and stared out the window, surprised by the satisfaction she felt at seeing him grovel.†   (source)
  • You will grovel before Imo when the Raiders come.†   (source)
  • He would grovel if that would convince her, if he could only somehow defuse the threat that she posed.†   (source)
  • Part of me wanted to whip out the papers and watch Mother grovel on her hands and knees as I ripped them to shreds.†   (source)
  • I could see myself leaping from my high tree and running on all fours through the crowd to her, howling, whimpering, throwing myself down, drooling and groveling at her small, fur-booted feet.†   (source)
  • "There wasn't much opportunity for groveling last…time."†   (source)
  • You'll bow down and raise my flag, you groveling little maggots," they growled.†   (source)
  • I feel pretty god-awful about that, but there's no point in groveling over it.†   (source)
  • If she'd lost, she wouldn't go down groveling.†   (source)
  • Lord, I was glad you never knew how I had groveled at your feet!†   (source)
  • He sends a rider, tells me I must leave my own keep to come grovel at his feet.†   (source)
  • No groveling.†   (source)
  • "Not so fast, Romero," I hear Kappy bark, and the sound of Roamer groveling almost makes the pain worth it.†   (source)
  • Shari had said something about groveling.†   (source)
  • Kessell asked as the goblin groveled and whimpered.†   (source)
  • With some you postured and with some you groveled and with some you were imperious.†   (source)
  • Maybe if I grovel, I can still get a job on one of the garbage scows he's going to buy from the Glatun since he can't trust Boeing.†   (source)
  • Belly to earth, he began to grovel toward her while his grimace widened into an expression of sheer idiocy.†   (source)
  • I'm gonna go do some groveling."†   (source)
  • Darkness grew on itself Well after midnight a warm fog groveled down the river, a great softness that drenched and covered him.†   (source)
  • "I think you mean groveling," I said.†   (source)
  • I haven't had a good grovel in weeks!†   (source)
  • They had the power to turn women into groveling slaves subservient to their wearers' vilest desires, or so I judged from the stories that came back on Sunday nights.†   (source)
  • I learned later that Piedmont liked his subordinates to grovel a bit before they presented a proposal, shuffle a bit before they offered a suggestion, and lie prone on their faces before they dared proffer a bit of advice.†   (source)
  • But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.†   (source)
  • How can he not be ashamed to grovel at her feet and plead with her?†   (source)
  • The Philadelphia Press said that in Ross "littleness" had "simply borne its legitimate fruit," and that he and his fellow recalcitrant Republicans had "plunged from a precipice of fame into the groveling depths of infamy and death."†   (source)
  • They groveled in the dirt under the bandstand hunting for lost money, but when they found a dead bird with its feathers cool as rain, they ran out in the sun.†   (source)
  • Then return in glory, and revel in the groveling you will get.†   (source)
  • God, it's making me sick to watch you grovel."†   (source)
  • Lay you a good solid groundwork for some groveling?'†   (source)
  • She approached the god, followed by Octavian, who was bowing and scraping like a champion groveler.†   (source)
  • The waiter groveled and generally looked terrified.†   (source)
  • She would be abject, she would cling and grovel.†   (source)
  • Now please, drag him off before he wakes up and starts groveling?†   (source)
  • "Oh"—he tried unsuccessfully to keep the tremor out of his voice—"grovel, I suppose."†   (source)
  • She wanted to tell him she wouldn't have dinner with him even if he groveled.†   (source)
  • Look, there's no doubt in my mind you're going to have to do some groveling," Shari says.†   (source)
  • He stumbled, then added evenly, "I am very good at groveling."†   (source)
  • Yes, groveling in front of a God who must be a monster, Stingo, if He exist.†   (source)
  • My grandmother believed that mining and quarrying, of all kinds, was groveling work—and that quarriers and miners were more closely related to moles than to men.†   (source)
  • They have to grovel for tips.†   (source)
  • But Kennerly did not turn away, merely stood as if searching for something further to say, grinning his groveling, hate-filled grin, and his eyes flicked up and over the gunslinger's shoulder.†   (source)
  • The goddess shooed away the frost giant, who did his best to cower, grovel, and retreat all at the same time.†   (source)
  • For three years Dowell had known the singular strain of the jockey's job, torturing his body to keep it at an inhumanly low weight, groveling for mounts in the mornings and enduring punishing violence in the afternoons, waiting in vain for the "big horse" that would bear him from poverty and peril.†   (source)
  • "Let it be for now," Fin said quietly, "and use some of this famous time and space to learn how to do a proper grovel."†   (source)
  • The dog whimpered and squealed in brute, dumbfounded hysteria at the end of an old Manila rope and groveled and crawled on its belly without resisting, but the man beat it and beat it anyway with his heavy, flat stick.†   (source)
  • Only if you grovel enough.†   (source)
  • Enough of this groveling! she declared.†   (source)
  • Groveling.†   (source)
  • I groveled.†   (source)
  • Seeing everyone in the squadron he didn't like afraid once again throughout the appalling, interminable Great Big Siege of Bologna reminded Captain Black nostalgically of the good old days of his Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade when he had been a man of real consequence, and when even big shots like Milo Minderbinder, Doc Daneeka and Piltchard and Wren had trembled at his approach and groveled at his feet.†   (source)
  • I won't grovel," he said.†   (source)
  • Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.†   (source)
  • Looking out for an instant from precarious holds, they took in sharply for memory's sake that berated figure, the mask formed and set on the face, one hand displayed, one jealously clawed under the waist, as if a secret handful had been groveled for, the spread and spotted legs.†   (source)
  • One moment he was dedicated and pure and devoted; the next he wallowed in filth; and the next he groveled in shame and emerged rededicated.†   (source)
  • —yes, grovel through the halls of the university like some newspaper vendor, once more doing what he said just because he said I must do it.†   (source)
  • But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy.†   (source)
  • It was at last coming clear to me that this man, this father, this man which gave me breath and flesh have no more feeling for me than a servant, some peasant or slave, and now with not a word of thanks for all my work was going to make me …. grovel?†   (source)
  • Then he makes a sharp right turn and continues on his way, his grovelers straggling behind.†   (source)
  • Then, as his grovelers duck for cover, he reaches out and claps August on the shoulder.†   (source)
  • His grovelers follow, jogging in nervous spurts to keep up.†   (source)
  • Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and groveling submission to those you can't.†   (source)
  • (Xing R. to proscenium) Mr. Webb is Publisher and Editor of The Grovels Corners Sentinel.†   (source)
  • There was always a place for it to land no matter where he ducked or writhed or groveled.†   (source)
  • And the preacher paced like a tiger, whipping the people with his voice, and they groveled and whined on the ground.†   (source)
  • She brushed it aside with that passionate and leashed humorlessness, almost inattention, talking as though to herself of men, names, to see, to grovel to or threaten, outlining to him a campaign of abasement and plotting.†   (source)
  • He was a hero who, by his courage in the fiery furnace, his unreadiness to break down and grovel before a popular conception of the character of the All Highest, had proven himself capable of facing a greater revelation than the one that satisfied his friends.†   (source)
  • Ellsworth Toohey said that the essence of exaltation was to be scared out of your wits, to fall down and to grovel.†   (source)
  • And when they were all in, waist deep in the water, and looking with frightened eyes at the master, he knelt down on the bank and he prayed for them; and he prayed that all men and women might grovel and whine on the ground.†   (source)
  • He groveled on the ground and then springing up went careering off through some bushes.†   (source)
  • An instant later he leaped at her, as she lay groveling at his feet.†   (source)
  • Either to be a hero or to grovel in the mud--there was nothing between.†   (source)
  • Are you to be happy while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness?†   (source)
  • 'Don't grovel on the ground there up, this moment!'†   (source)
  • What he knew of that under-world where grovel the beat-men of society (and he knew a great deal) had hardened his nature.†   (source)
  • RAGUENEAU: Groveling ant!†   (source)
  • Now he was seized with a desire to do horrible, sordid things; he wanted to roll himself in gutters; his whole being yearned for beastliness; he wanted to grovel.†   (source)
  • There in the dusk in the spring evening I crawled along the black ground to her feet and groveled before her.†   (source)
  • A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoiter the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make it prey and subject the proper penitent, groveling at a women's slipper.†   (source)
  • She knew exactly how to treat him, pay no attention to him, just pretend you didn't notice his tempers, leave him severely alone, and in a little while he was sure to grovel.†   (source)
  • He is very much embarrassed about the arms, as if they were inconvenient to him and he wanted to grovel, is very much in a perspiration about the head, and never speaks without first putting up his great hand, as delivering a token to his hearers that he is going to edify them.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • They are swindlers, only there the scoundrel wears polished boots and here he grovels in filth and sees no harm in it.†   (source)
  • He heard the hateful clank of their chains; he felt them cringe and grovel, and there rose within him a protest and a prophecy.†   (source)
  • Weucha led Asinus directly into the centre of the circle, and leaving them together, (for the legs of the naturalist were attached to the beast in such a manner, that the two animals might be said to be incorporated, and to form a new order,) he withdrew to his proper place, gazing at the conjuror, as he retired, with a wonder and admiration, that were natural to the groveling dulness of his mind.†   (source)
  • The truth was, the nation as a body was in the world for one object, and one only: to grovel before king and Church and noble; to slave for them, sweat blood for them, starve that they might be fed, work that they might play, drink misery to the dregs that they might be happy, go naked that they might wear silks and jewels, pay taxes that they might be spared from paying them, be familiar all their lives with the degrading language and postures of adulation that they might walk in…†   (source)
  • Conceit may be, that comes from youth, that will be corrected if need be, but, on the other hand, there is an independent spirit almost from childhood, boldness of thought and conviction, and not the spirit of these sausage makers, groveling before authority….†   (source)
  • I made about three passes in the air, and then there was an awful crash and that old tower leaped into the sky in chunks, along with a vast volcanic fountain of fire that turned night to noonday, and showed a thousand acres of human beings groveling on the ground in a general collapse of consternation.†   (source)
  • Women, not men! no Here is disgrace and groveling shame for us if none of the Danaans fight with Hektor!†   (source)
  • The humanity of the under-galleries of pipes, storage, and coal made an appearance, maintenance men, short-order grovelers; or a ducal Frenchman, in homburg, like a singer, calling himself "the beauty cook," who wrote down on his card without taking off his gloves.†   (source)
  • He found these exhibitions, these wild denunciations and cowardly grovellings in propitiation of a God none of them paid any attention to in health, ugly and abominable.†   (source)
  • Prone upon the floor lay Mr. March, with his respectable legs in the air, and beside him, likewise prone, was Demi, trying to imitate the attitude with his own short, scarlet-stockinged legs, both grovelers so seriously absorbed that they were unconscious of spectators, till Mr. Bhaer laughed his sonorous laugh, and Jo cried out, with a scandalized face….†   (source)
  • A hideous grovelling slave who flatters when he's kicked but treasures it all up and hopes to get his own back by egging on that horrible Tisroc to plot his son's death.   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use groveling.
  • Mustapha Mond tried to make him get up; but Bernard persisted in his grovelling; the stream of words poured out inexhaustibly.   (source)
  • But before death (nobody spoke of such things, yet everybody knew of them) there was the routine of confession that had to be gone through: the grovelling on the floor and screaming for mercy, the crack of broken bones, the smashed teeth, and bloody clots of hair.   (source)
  • I saw them gradually worn down, whimpering, grovelling, weeping — and in the end it was not with pain or fear, only with penitence.   (source)
  • He felt the smash of truncheons on his elbows and iron-shod boots on his shins; he saw himself grovelling on the floor, screaming for mercy through broken teeth.   (source)
  • 'Mercy, lord!' whined Wormtongue, grovelling on the ground.†   (source)
  • They fell forward, grovelling heedlessly on the cold earth.†   (source)
  • His horse bolted in terror, and he grovelled on the ground.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use groveled.
  • He grovelled on the ground and could speak no clear words but nice master.†   (source)
  • Men cast from the saddle lay grovelling on the ground.†   (source)
  • He kicked Wormtongue in the face as he grovelled, and turned and made off.†   (source)
  • His voice is heartier than he intends, the voice of a jolly and insincere uncle who can scarcely wait to bestow the expected quarter-dollar on the grovelling poor-relation niece, pinch her cheek, and then make his getaway to the opera.†   (source)
  • The rest of the terrified prisoners filled the glen with wails of horror as they grovelled on the ground, soiling themselves, begging for mercy.†   (source)
  • The two bound brothers grovelled in the dirt, rising to their knees in supplication, shaking their heads in denial.†   (source)
  • Our most experienced, dedicated men set a trap for our enemies that would have cut them down, ridding ourselves of Western criminals who see only riches to be won by grovelling in front of China's tormentors.†   (source)
  • Then crawling to Frodo's feet he grovelled before him, whispering hoarsely: a shudder ran over him, as if the words shook his very bones with fear.†   (source)
  • His eyes smouldered with anger, but he could not avenge himself: his miserable enemy lay grovelling on the stones whimpering.†   (source)
  • But what went on in his wretched heart between the pressure of the Eye, and the lust of the Ring that was so near, and his grovelling promise made half in the fear of cold iron, the hobbits did not guess: Frodo gave no thought to it.†   (source)
  • But no one paid attention when Ross tried unsuccessfully to explain his vote, and denounced the falsehoods of Ben Butler's investigating committee, recalling that the General's "well known grovelling instincts and proneness to slime and uncleanness" had led "the public to insult the brute creation by dubbing him 'the beast.'†   (source)
  • You see how grovelling, how unspiritual, how irredeemably vulgar He is!†   (source)
  • Occasionally, when they are too grovelling, it makes a man mad and then he kicks them.†   (source)
  • He rolled toward it, grovelled toward it, fell toward it when he was knocked down.†   (source)
  • The earlier animals, hot and weary with their grovelling, shot vicious glances at him.†   (source)
  • He grovelled so helplessly, she pitied him.†   (source)
  • He grovelled in the gloom, the eyes from out his drawn face riveted upon the intervening door.†   (source)
  • He was abject before Wolf Larsen and almost grovelled to Johansen.†   (source)
  • No grovelling jealousy was in her heart.†   (source)
  • You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!†   (source)
  • It was a grovelling fashion of existence: I should never like to return to it.†   (source)
  • And she fell to sobbing and grovelling about my feet, and still imploring.†   (source)
  • Do you see those grovelling and wandering eyes?†   (source)
  • Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?†   (source)
    editor's notes: Today we would write groveled.
  • Why, she might have moved among grovelling people for twenty years, and never heard of it.†   (source)
  • He grovelled in spirit before me, with his body doubled up insinuatingly and his hands hovering about my knees, as though he were ready to embrace my legs.†   (source)
  • The colour went from their six faces like enchantment; some leaped to their feet, some clawed hold of others; Morgan grovelled on the ground.†   (source)
  • White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission.†   (source)
  • When his swagger is exhausted he drivels into erotic poetry or sentimental uxoriousness; and the Tennysonian King Arthur posing as Guinevere becomes Don Quixote grovelling before Dulcinea.†   (source)
  • "I do not see the Leopard-man," said I. Presently Moreau sounded the great horn again, and at the sound of it all the Beast People writhed and grovelled in the dust.†   (source)
  • It must have been a pretty sight, the fierce industry of these beggars toiling on a motionless ship that floated quietly in the silence of a world asleep, fighting against time for the freeing of that boat, grovelling on all-fours, standing up in despair, tugging, pushing, snarling at each other venomously, ready to kill, ready to weep, and only kept from flying at each other's throats by the fear of death that stood silent behind them like an inflexible and cold-eyed taskmaster.†   (source)
  • Johnson must have joined him immediately, so that his abject and grovelling conduct on deck for the past few days had been no more than planned deception.†   (source)
  • Wolf Larsen it was, always Wolf Larsen, enslaver and tormentor of men, a male Circe and these his swine, suffering brutes that grovelled before him and revolted only in drunkenness and in secrecy.†   (source)
  • It was altogether unaccountable that a young gentleman whose imagination had been strangled in his cradle, should be still inconvenienced by its ghost in the form of grovelling sensualities; but such a monster, beyond all doubt, was Tom.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the really new people are very often unobserved by them, or even despised as reactionaries of grovelling tendencies.†   (source)
  • 'Juries,' said Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane tightly, as was his wont when working into a passion: 'juries is ineddicated, vulgar, grovelling wretches.'†   (source)
  • The latter quickly predominated in the bosom of one whose passions were proverbially grovelling; and scarcely a moment intervened between the flight of the animals and the swift pursuit of the guards.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Amrah grovelled sobbing in the dust.†   (source)
  • Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.†   (source)
  • But these dead-tinted, hollow-eyed, angular skeletons of villages on the Rhone oppress me with the feeling that human life—very much of it—is a narrow, ugly, grovelling existence, which even calamity does not elevate, but rather tends to exhibit in all its bare vulgarity of conception; and I have a cruel conviction that the lives these ruins are the traces of were part of a gross sum of obscure vitality, that will be swept into the same oblivion with the generations of ants and…†   (source)
  • He looked to the spot where Defarge the vendor of wine had stood, a moment before; but the wretched father was grovelling on his face on the pavement in that spot, and the figure that stood beside him was the figure of a dark stout woman, knitting.†   (source)
  • In another, the ground was cumbered with rusty iron monsters of steam-boilers, wheels, cranks, pipes, furnaces, paddles, anchors, diving-bells, windmill-sails, and I know not what strange objects, accumulated by some speculator, and grovelling in the dust, underneath which — having sunk into the soil of their own weight in wet weather — they had the appearance of vainly trying to hide themselves.†   (source)
  • By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives.†   (source)
  • But now his spirit was incapable of sustaining itself at the height to which the early enthusiasm of passion had exalted it; he fell down, grovelling among earthly doubts, and defiled therewith the pure whiteness of Beatrice's image.†   (source)
  • "The ladders are thrown down," replied Rebecca, shuddering; "the soldiers lie grovelling under them like crushed reptiles—The besieged have the better."†   (source)
  • Aristocracies often commit very tyrannical and very inhuman actions; but they rarely entertain grovelling thoughts; and they show a kind of haughty contempt of little pleasures, even whilst they indulge in them.†   (source)
  • And it was not from any interested motive that they grovelled, but simply because he had been favoured by the gifts of nature.†   (source)
  • I was not sure of the existence of one virtue in her nature: I had marked neither modesty, nor benevolence, nor candour, nor refinement in her mind or manners — and, I married her:— gross, grovelling, mole-eyed blockhead that I was!†   (source)
  • I gradually cheered her up by dwelling on the many things she would do for her unfortunate father and for Peepy when she had a home of her own; and finally we went downstairs into the damp dark kitchen, where Peepy and his little brothers and sisters were grovelling on the stone floor and where we had such a game of play with them that to prevent myself from being quite torn to pieces I was obliged to fall back on my fairy-tales.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • There are no reproaches I could heap upon your head which would carry with them one thousandth part of the grovelling shame that this assurance will awaken even in your breast.†   (source)
  • He twined his hands in his hair; and, with a loud scream, rolled grovelling upon the floor: his eyes fixed, and the foam covering his lips.†   (source)
  • —I stand upon the spot where, seven years since, I should have stood, here, with this woman, whose arm, more than the little strength wherewith I have crept hitherward, sustains me at this dreadful moment, from grovelling down upon my face!†   (source)
  • What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight, tell: it grovelled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing, and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face.†   (source)
  • Here was the young lord dead, his companion abroad and beyond his reach, ten thousand pounds gone at one blow, his plot with Gride overset at the very moment of triumph, his after-schemes discovered, himself in danger, the object of his persecution and Nicholas's love, his own wretched boy; everything crumbled and fallen upon him, and he beaten down beneath the ruins and grovelling in the dust.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The very dulness of this grovelling-minded savage, who continued gazing at the supposed conjuror with a sort of stupid admiration, opposed now the only obstacle to the complete success of his artifice.†   (source)
  • In truth, for our own part, we are disposed to look upon such gentleman as being rather incumbrances than otherwise in rising families: happening to be acquainted with several whose spirit prevents their settling down to any grovelling occupation, and only displays itself in a tendency to cultivate moustachios, and look fierce; and although moustachios and ferocity are both very pretty things in their way, and very much to be commended, we confess to a desire to see them bred at the…†   (source)
  • And so suddenly Beaumains pulled him upon the ground grovelling.†   (source)
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