7 collocations for grovels

A miserable grovelling Earl Besought her approbation."

To noble deeds fair poesie lends wings; She lifts them up from grovelling earth to sky, And bids them sit in light, and live and never die.

It is a scheme of representation, which would make a specious appearance in a political romance, but cannot be brought into practice among us, who see every day the towering head of speculation bow down unwillingly to groveling experience.

In the corner of a dim, bare room groveled Glidden, bound so that he had little use of his body.

Beneath the footstool of this "dumb ox of Sicily," as he was called, grovel the heresiarchsArius, Sabellius, Averroes.

And when he had gone, she could control herself no longer and, forgetful of coming maid and approaching dinner, she groveled on the white bearskin rug before the fire, and gave way to passionate tearsonly to recollect in a moment the position of things.

"Webster's Dict. "Thus forced to kneel, thus groveling to embrace, The scourge and ruin of my realm and race.

7 collocations for  grovels