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  • I don't want to sound like a begging, grovelling idiot, but I am genuinely in pain knowing that I cant go.
  • Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet. Across China on Foot
  • White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission. The Trail of the Gods
  • Grovelling is certainly no way to win employment—or at least no way to win employment for an organisation that I would want to work for.
  • Appeasement and compromise will turn enemies into friends, if groveling and self-abasement do not first drive friends into the enemy camp. Farewell to America's China Station
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  • I bet all the grovelling begins all over again next week.
  • They sent a grovelling email to the couple begging for forgiveness.
  • He gasped as he saw her, and fell to the ground, groveling at her feet, pleading with her.
  • I guess most of the Negroes in that area were kind of groveling creatures, you know. Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, July 28, 1976. Interview G-0056-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
  • I knocked over the bowl with all the beads in it and spent fifteen minutes grovelling on my hands and knees on the living room carpet painstakingly picking them up again.
  • ÂSome stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
  • Some preemptive grovelling can go a long way.
  • I do love a bit of gardening, though, and a raised border is much easier for me to get to than grovelling at ground level.
  • We are not quite sure just how much grovelling it is going to take to get Maria to forgive him.
  • We are not quite sure just how much grovelling it is going to take to get Maria to forgive him.
  • We resolved to show him and everyone else that the days for grovelling were over.
  • Personally, I'm wondering just how much he paid for the gross of grovelling apologies he's been using like there's no tomorrow…
  • Next time you communicate with your friend, express deep remorse and offer a groveling apology.
  • She was grovelling around on the floor, looking for her contact lens.
  • She was grovelling around on the floor, looking for her contact lens.
  • All the fawning and grovelling that goes on is very distasteful.
  • The duo had to offer grovelling apologies after the shameful end to the match.
  • Okay, that's enough of the grovelling—can I have your spare ticket please, Kate?
  • Why are you groveling in the dirt? Have you lost something?
  • If the rulers of other countries want to grovel, that is their privilege, but I don't want my country groveling before anyone. Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • He was not even gracious enough to apologise and did not do so until some time later when it became expedient, in terms of his public image, to offer a grudging and less than grovelling apology.
  • At first Bâtard would crowd himself into the smallest possible space, grovelling close to the floor; but as the music came nearer and nearer, he was forced to uprear, his back jammed into the logs, his fore legs fanning the air as though to beat off the rippling waves of sound. BÂTARD
  • How much more grovelling do we have to do for bad things done in our name?
  • that is, if you were a masochistic type who enjoyed grovelling on the floorboards and breathing diesel fumes in a rolling seaway. CORMORANT
  • Since the story first emerged last week, both of them have issued grovelling statements about their affair.
  • Then they lashed together many sad strokes, and traced and traversed now backward, now sideling, hurtling together like two boars, and that same time they fell both grovelling to the earth. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • Okay, that's enough of the grovelling—can I have your spare ticket please, Kate?
  • Alan Hansen's Match of the Day blunder in racism row Alan Hansen is forced to make a grovelling apology after using the word "coloured" as he debated racism in football on Match Of The Day Spurs fans also on trial at White Hart Lane John Terry's criminal charge is a long way from reaching judgement but that won't stop wags in the terraces from pronouncing their own... Evening Standard - Home
  • She says there was a lot of grovelling to lure her back to the competition.
  • The spectacle of an entire nation groveling in contentment is an infuriating thing. Mark Twain in The Atlantic
  • I find your grovelling sycophancy rather disgusting and a bit creepy.
  • Why are you groveling in the dirt? Have you lost something?
  • * At one level theres an easy reply to the accusations of grovelling, which is that Galloway took the decision to meet Saddam because he felt it could strengthen the chance for peace, and then had to follow the required degree of courtesy. What's Going On
  • How much more grovelling do we have to do for bad things done in our name?
  • They're not servile and grovelling like the English are.
  • ÂSome stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
  • Pete went on a long grovelling campaign and the two made up during a romantic spa weekend.
  • Total grovelling obeisance to Israel is a speciality, with much contempt for the Palestinians and support for Israel as they eviscerated Gazan children, and a manic scheme of extreme toadyish inventiveness, to attempt to arraign Ahmadinejad before the ICC for 'incitement to genocide' over his non-existent calls to 'wipe Israel off the map'. Dissident Voice
  • I bet all the grovelling begins all over again next week.
  • He sent a grovelling note of apology.
  • The company offered a grovelling apology via a blog post today and explained the issue.
  • After much grovelling, they were allowed to perform the song.
  • Ed tried to wriggle and in the end started grovelling to Neil, that he was probably the best informed political journalist on the economy.
  • Historically for blacks, this kind of groveling is normally referred to as "Uncle Tommish" - or "Aunt Jemimaism. Flip-flopping on Obama
  • There was no strength left for crawling or grovelling, let alone swimming.
  • It was the usual routine, after one of their spats Antony would go in angry at her, and come out groveling at her feet to take him back.
  • She says there was a lot of grovelling to lure her back to the competition.
  • In this respect he is indeed just like her: courageous and unbending when facing up to the weak, the workers and the poor; grovelling and sycophantic to the rich, the strong and the powerful.
  • Most ministers have to put up a convincing, grovelling case in the Budget round to get their cause across the line.
  • And grief and joy, nor can the groveling mine In the dark dungeon of the limbs confin Aflert the native Ikies, or own its heavenly Nor eling mine, t ifin'd, I ivenly kind. The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
  • The star has forgiven theatre him for heckling her during a play after he wrote a grovelling letter of apology.
  • She said it was ridiculous that Church leaders appeared to be 'grovelling' to a secular agenda. Of course, I could be wrong...
  • Next time you communicate with your friend, express deep remorse and offer a groveling apology.Sentence dictionary
  • All the fawning and grovelling that goes on is very distasteful.
  • He has a lot of grovelling to do to the fans.
  • He sent a grovelling note of apology.
  • The duo had to offer grovelling apologies after the shameful end to the match.
  • I am expecting a grovelling one over hotdogs on the 4th July as he cosies up to Syrian and Venezualan officials. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • However, it sometimes seems as though a mere public reconsideration is not enough: we instead demand an abject, groveling apology and a confession that those who opposed the war were right about every last thing.
  • The news comes out just two days after Weiner, a rising star within the Democratic party, made a grovelling televised apology in which he admitted he had sent semi-clad photographs of himself to at least six different women, some of which had occurred after his marriage. Anthony Weiner's wife Huma Abedin reportedly pregnant
  • The public also need to be immunised against propaganda from Muslims and their grovelling dhimmis by being made aware of taqiyya holy deception - the sacred Muslim practice of lying to further the cause of Islam . Why I support Israel.
  • He refers back to the Fish era as if in awe, and introduces the other Marillionauts with grovelling reverence.
  • Pete went on a long grovelling campaign and the two made up during a romantic spa weekend.
  • She should be groveling over her chosen incompetence and engaging in remedial studies, and nobody should be giving her the slightest respect until she does that. bob h Says: Matthew Yglesias » Question for Stimuskeptics
  • The great thing about all of this religious or "culty" guff, is that all the sheeple groveling in their steeple, they all have "opinions" about what their deity is "saying" and righteously so, but the deity in the last few thousands of years of "omnipotence", has never once put in a personal appearance. Computerworld News
  • Most ministers have to put up a convincing, grovelling case in the Budget round to get their cause across the line.
  • We belong to nobody else, and we need to end this grovelling, stand up, and acknowledge that we are grown ups now.
  • We belong to nobody else, and we need to end this grovelling, stand up, and acknowledge that we are grown ups now.
  • Hawkowl, I would gladly accede to the label curmudgeon, but I'll never be a snarkling, and I don't do groveling. Miss Snark resembles a Shar-pei
  • Grovelling is certainly no way to win employment—or at least no way to win employment for an organisation that I would want to work for.
  • But even that failed to satisfy the council and, last week, a grovelling apology had to be broadcast.
  • Since the story first emerged last week, both of them have issued grovelling statements about their affair.
  • The spectacle of an entire nation groveling in contentment is an infuriating thing … Humor
  • I found it grovelling along the ground, tangled and wild, and twining round every worthless weed, and it struck me as an emblem of myself: a mere scatterling, running to waste and uselessness. Tales of a Traveller
  • They also expected obeisance, deference, and acquiescence to their methods - even groveling - from me.
  • Lewis the Twelfth his death, tam subita mutatio, ut qui prius digito coelum attingere videbantur, nunc humi derepente serpere, sideratos esse diceres, they that were erst in heaven, upon a sudden, as if they had been planet-strucken, lay grovelling on the ground; Anatomy of Melancholy
  • In a sickening display of abject groveling he declared: ‘My behavior on this occasion was unacceptable and irresponsible.’
  • Some preemptive grovelling can go a long way.
  • Of all the varied methods, John Gunter, the fisherman, preferred the grub-and-grovelling method, and the favourite scene of his grovelling was a low grog-shop in one of the lower parts of Yarmouth. The Young Trawler
  • Here is the pretty official groveling in sentimentality.
  • The company offered a grovelling apology via a blog post today and explained the issue.
  • Imagine the kind of groveling Apple would have to do to pick up Yahoo or Microsoft Bing or some other vendor as its primary provider of search and maps. Google Should Make Apple Beg For Maps Navigation
  • Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
  • I was grovelling under the sofa, trying to find my contact lens.
  • When it came time to apologise, Ron Brown varied the text of his agreed apology, describing it as "grovelling" and "rubbish". Harry's Place
  • "I was as sullen and foul-tempered with my parents as I was cowardly and groveling at school," he says.
  • He has a lot of grovelling to do to the fans.
  • I don't want to sound like a begging, grovelling idiot, but I am genuinely in pain knowing that I cant go.
  • I find your grovelling sycophancy rather disgusting and a bit creepy.
  • Configuration got radically simpler—no more grovelling around for the system MDA and user's mailbox, no more worries about whether the underlying OS supports file locking.
  • The star has forgiven theatre him for heckling her during a play after he wrote a grovelling letter of apology.
  • Even Cicero became a groveling, craven bootlicker in the end. Matthew Yglesias » The Missing Faction
  • They sent a grovelling email to the couple begging for forgiveness.
  • Look, all we are saying is that unless Sen Obama crawls towards Sen Clinton on his knees through West Virginia in sack-cloth and ashes like Henry IV grovelling before Gregory VII in Canossa, we will know that he is not serious about uniting the country ... Clinton Camp: Obama Shouldn't Get Away With Writing Off West Virginia Loss
  • At first Bâtard would crowd himself into the smallest possible space, grovelling close to the floor; but as the music came nearer and nearer, he was forced to uprear, his back jammed into the logs, his fore legs fanning the air as though to beat off the rippling waves of sound. BÂTARD
  • Elections Systems & Software (ES&S) is now reportedly "groveling" and apologizing to state officials for not having done any better in the state. The Approaching 2006 E-Voting 'Train Wreck' - Are We Making Headway or Losing The Battle?
  • White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission. The Trail of the Gods
  • When Qualary spoke to her or of her, she said `Madam Domer ' in tones of absolute subservience and grovelling respect. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • My approach is to rarely ask him for anything if I can at all help it, since his granting of a favour requires about 3-5 years of effusive gratitude and grovelling.
  • Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
  • The new ardor which burns in his breast consumes in its glow the lower "noes" which formerly beset him, and keeps him immune against infection from the entire groveling portion of his nature. The Varieties of Religious Experience
  • Commentators accused Obama of "grovelling" and noted that protocol traditionally calls for an American president to bow to no one ... least of all a foreign potentate. Home - BostonHerald.com
  • After much grovelling, they were allowed to perform the song.
  • Miss Shields had not studied Mr. Matthew Arnold, and was mercifully unaware that not to detect the "pinchbeck" in the _Lays_ is the sign of a grovelling nature. The Mark Of Cain
  • He lent him his hand to help him, touched him, and set him upon his hands and knees (v. 10), else he would still have lain grovelling, touched his lips (v. 16), else he would have been still dumb; again he touched him (v. 18), and put strength into him, else he would still have been staggering and trembling. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • He issued a grovelling apology for his rowdy behaviour on the plane.
  • Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
  • Once he'd got the grovelling out of the way he was transformed.
  • Resilient than rubber, more sensitive than the world's best radar system and forever grovelling at the boss' feet, these modern Neros fiddle while the office burns.
  • The great thing about all of this religious or" culty "guff, is that all the sheeple groveling in their steeple, they al ... ARN News
  • Humility has nothing to do with grovelling, or apologizing for one's existence.
  • His intensely physical lead performance careens from raving belligerence to groveling abjection.
  • Actually "groveling" before AIPAC is what use to be done; the new posture requires that our AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • I was grovelling under the sofa, trying to find my contact lens.
  • He issued a grovelling apology for his rowdy behaviour on the plane.

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