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And there is Orson Welles as Falstaff, and Falstaff is grovelling for Henry V. He’s banished.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

No wonder the taste of the day is grovelling lower and lower, when people do not begin with the pure high air of his world!

From The Trial by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

For the age that Carlyle spits at and the great and good John Ruskin scorns is gross, Mr. Aylwin; the age is grovelling and gross.

From Aylwin by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

And, in the same manner, everything that is grovelling and venomous, everything that can hiss, and everything that can sting, would take sanctuary in the recesses of this new temple of wisdom.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

She is abominably rouged, and before me she is grovelling, as she must have seen some actress do upon the stage.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch