Example Sentences

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

From Crowded Out! and Other Sketches by Harrison, S. Frances (Susie Frances)

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."

From Moon Lore by Harley, Timothy

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!

From Antonina by Collins, Wilkie

Bitter is their denunciation of the poet's arrogance:   A man that's proud—vile groveller in the dust,   Dependent on the mercy of his God   For every breath.

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth

Few to the world their honest thoughts avow; the groveller policy robs justice now—      And none but Sampson dares to lift a hond      Against the curst corruption of the lond.

From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles