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Where others had grovelled he had tied himself into knots.

From The Clicking of Cuthbert by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Within a second they had thrown down their arms and had grovelled on the floor of the boat.

From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

With a sound of love and misery impossible to describe, Zadok had leaped from the box and had grovelled at those dear feet, kissing the insensible hands and praying for those shut eyes to open.

From The House of the Whispering Pines by Green, Anna Katharine

Remembering the scene in the temple where he had grovelled before his god, uttering agonised, unanswered prayers for added days, I understood the reason of his wrath.

From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Haggard, Henry Rider

So fickle is popular favor that when the crowd saw that nothing happened, they spurned the god loudly before whom they had grovelled in the dust till then.

From Hero Tales of the Far North by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)