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He had been grovelling on earth, with no thoughts beyond its fleeting goods; the vision lifts his eyes from the low level on which they had been gazing.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Maclaren, Alexander

"Ah, my deliverer!" he cried as he rose from the floor, where he had been grovelling in heartrending paroxysms of grief.

From Dead Souls by Hogarth, D. J.

He had been grovelling, pleading, weeping, beseeching, but the utter uselessness of it at last came upon him and some of his courage returned.

From Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main by Crawford, Will

He is in bad shape—his clothes torn and dirty, covered with sawdust as if he had been grovelling or sleeping on barroom floors.

From Anna Christie by O'Neill, Eugene