Yeah the pennywhistle is the worst kind of groundling humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond O'Brien] Reference

The modern-day Globe is located on the south bank of the River Thames a stone's throw from where the original theater used to exist and is built to similar specifications with an open-air stage, standing room in front of the stage for inexpensive "groundling" tickets and a thatched roof over the galleries for those willing to pay more for a seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Has anyone else noticed a lot more groundling crowd noise on The Daily Show and the Colbert Report?.    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 April | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference

Still, it is heart-rending to think I shall never rise above the sordid earth, always remain a mere groundling!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parables from Flowers] Reference

Having read the book, I know that it's a lot of fun perhaps a bit too bawdy for some, but in a past life I was a groundling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

There is no need to economize on size in a spacecraft; hence interstellar ships are roomy beyond the imagination of a groundling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Side Of Nowhere]

And there you were, like a lampost, willing to share your genius with us, to drop bits of wit and nearly other-worldly wisdom upon us groundling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The "Stupid" Dialogue.] Reference

Having established his pattern of mobility, Mouse might arrange a fatal encounter with Marya somewhere far from the usual groundling stomping ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfishers]

I felt that Anita was somehow the cause; but, even so, how had he succeeded in convincing Roebuck that I must be clipped and plucked into a groundling?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

I warmed up my voice shouting in the street before they opened El Museo del Barrio to those of us who had political connections or groundling tickets like me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reverend Billy: The Heckler] Reference

Forgetting time and the life of the world, they pass days in these inviolate stillnesses, watching a bird build its nest or brood over its young, or some little groundling at its gracious play.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

On the few occasions when I've seen a movie with the paying public, the experience struck me as a cross between being a groundling at Shakespeare's Globe and being Faye Dunaway at the end of "Bonnie and Clyde.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Holloway: Hollywood: Like Detroit, But Stupider] Reference

While a groundling held a basket up for the raken to gulp whole shriveled fruits by the double-handful at a time, one of the fliers would hand down their scouting report to a still more senior groundling, and the other bent on the other side to receive new orders from a flier too senior to handle reins personally very often.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Daggers]

Page 202 look down upon him as a menial, a groundling and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Negro and the White Man] Reference

She moves on far too high a plane for a groundling like me.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Friend Prospero] Reference

It is odd, too, that a bird which is so much of a groundling -- I use the term in a good sense, of course -- should also be so expert a sky-scraper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

A jewel had been left in the heart of every groundling trefoil and clover-leaf, and the long rays that twinkled to them were still just tinged with rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strangers at Lisconnel] Reference

I felt that Anita was somehow, in part at least, the cause; but, even so, how had he succeeded in convincing Roebuck that I must be clipped and plucked into a groundling?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deluge] Reference

Nor can one judge otherwise even when he stands before so humiliating an exhibition of groundling bigotry as is presented by some of the religious sects of the present day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference

I was wondering whether you could leave a health warning with the review, warning punters that guavas are liable to leave bruises when lobbed into the groundling populated floor ….    From Wordnik.com.  [West End Whingers] Reference

I don't think you got it, though - then or ever - because in your eyes you were risking the long fall from the top of the tent, and I was just another groundling hoofing it around the center ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

It is a pleasing sight to see the little creature, as he stands on his haunches, wondering, and the brain of a young Webster would naturally seek to let such a groundling have all his right of birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk] Reference

Realistic "effects," however speciously beautiful they may be, invariably tend to realism of that primal type, which satisfies the predilections of the groundling, and reduces drama to the level of the cinematograph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference

I cursed them in return for a pack of craven wretches, and threatening to ride down those who obstructed us, ordered my men forward; halting eventually a quarter of a mile farther on, where a wood of groundling oaks which still wore last year's leaves afforded fair shelter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gentleman of France] Reference

Forgetting time and the life of my own world, I sometimes come to inviolate stillnesses, where Nature opens her arms and bewitchingly promises embraces in soft, unending, undulating vastnesses, where even the watching of a bird building its nest or brooding over its young, or some little groundling at its gracious play, seems to hold one charmed beyond description.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across China on Foot] Reference

1609 -- "Your groundling and gallery commoner buys his sport for a penny" -- it is apparent that the charges for admission to the yard, where the spectators stood, and to the galleries, where they sat on benches, were the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference

"Your groundling and gallery commoner bays his (port by the penny.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plays of William Shakspeare ...] Reference

While the ground was gray, he was gray; but the ground changed to blue, and the groundling became a Yankee. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.] Reference

Man was not made to be a mere groundling.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada] Reference

With groundling sorrel: but white Coan neat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry] Reference

Of night-owls purring in their groundling flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgian Poetry 1913-15] Reference