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grovel
«Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance»
Author: H. H. Munro
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abject, assistance, brace, braces, confront, frantic, grovel, groveled, groveling, submission
«The spirit that does not soar is destined to grovel»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
destined, grovel, groveled, groveling, soar
«By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling 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. He knows Nature but as a robber.»
«There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual»
«What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
antithetical, coarseness, dirt, grovel, groveled, groveling, mixed, Mixed Up, roughness
«Or, my scrofulous French novel / On grey paper with blunt type! / Simply glance at it, you grovel / Hand and foot in Belial's gripe.»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
| Keywords:
Belial, grey, gripe, gripes, griping, grovel, groveled, groveling, hand and foot, scrofulous, typing paper
«When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms of gifts, donations, for Spiritual guidance and Transmission.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
bargain, crude, donation, entities, grovel, groveled, groveling, Spiritual gift, sustain
