Try not to grovel when you ask the judge for a pardon. From LearnThat.org.
If the rulers of other countries want to grovel, that is their privilege, but I don't want my country groveling before anyone. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
The fact is he doesn't have to 'grovel' to anyone. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006 @ 6: 26 p.m. Hmmm, I haven't seen Not-Green-Eyed-Guy since he contacted me to "grovel". From Wordnik.com. [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference
Jeffries was ubiquitous; he led the "grovel" (as the scrum was called at Fernhurst), and kept it together. From Wordnik.com. [The Loom of Youth] Reference
He would grovel before a worm to avoid that again. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
And he said -- Dunleavy said, Taubman didn't grovel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2002] Reference
If they want me to get down and grovel on the floor, no. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2002] Reference
Except Kerry would grovel before France a little bit more. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2004] Reference
Yet even Gul knows that he needs to grovel to break the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of Deference] Reference
Do they want him to grovel, to apologize for the rest of his life?. From Wordnik.com. [The Betrayal] Reference
So, I let down my guard and began to grovel like a dog on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 7] Reference
I really am not surprised that these people all just grovel before him. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
With a round oath, he yelled, "I'll make you grovel and ask me to stop.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
And it's really rare to hear, you know, the star of the movie grovel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2003] Reference
Genius born may grovel in the dust; genius made will mount to the skies. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
BOYKIN: He's going to have to grovel like nobody's groveled before, Tony. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2008] Reference
GOODMAN: Is Madonna going to make Guy grovel for table scraps from her fortune?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2008] Reference
Don't insist that people shall grovel at your feet before you accept their apology. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
The very worst thing you can do is beg and grovel and plead and try to hold it together. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2002] Reference
The merchant would grovel in the dust at the side of the street as the daimyo rode past. From Wordnik.com. [The Japanese Corpse]
And they grovel before me on the floor, placing all this plaything of a meal at my feet. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
That's enough to help swing close elections, make politicians grovel and beg for your support. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Wimsatt: The 12 Week Plan: A Road Map to Not Getting Our A**es Kicked on November 2] Reference
Her eyes, as she stood waiting for the boy to come to the elevator, seemed fairly to grovel on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
They know anything about being pampered, and they watched their family grovel and fight over money and fame. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2009] Reference
Promoters grovel at his feet, and offer heaps of scads, if he will condescend to meet some other bruising lads. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
The former editor of "The Washington Post," Ben Bradlee, used to say, "When you make a mistake, do a 100 percent grovel?". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Will Florida Courts Decide Election 2000? - November 16, 2000] Reference
Everything from the snowballs to chunks of grovel to hockey pucks were thrown at the windows in an attempt to break that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2001] Reference
History and Mr. LEGGE suggest that he will be willing -- even enthusiastic -- to grovel in the dust to assist that occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919] Reference
It is amidst those moments of pain that we grope and grovel almost like a blind man feeling around in a room for something solid. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: David Crosby Discusses Activism; Karen Shanor Delves Into the Brain; Rosemary Altea Shows the Power Within; T.D. Jakes Maximizes and Motivates - March 25, 2000] Reference
"The youth," says Mr. Disraeli, "who does not look up will look down; and the spirit that does not soar is destined perhaps to grovel.". From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
Blind men sit in darkness by the wayside; cripples drag their maimed bodies wearily along; beggars grovel in their sores and raggedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
Si'Wren sat in her tent and fought hard not to cower or grovel before the storm, and would have passed the entire night in prayer to the. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
"Better perhaps fly fairly high, and come down now and again to rest, if one must, than grovel consistently and always," observed Ernest. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
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