Commentators accused Obama of "grovelling" and noted that protocol traditionally calls for an American president to bow to no one ... least of all a foreign potentate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home - BostonHerald.com] Reference

Of all earth's grovelling crew, the most accursed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference

Suddenly Morge fell grovelling to his one good knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regeneration] Reference

Or grovelling soiled their crested helmets in the dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

The white man had fallen prone and was grovelling weakly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

Chaturiká began to sob, grovelling upon the floor at my feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Substance of a Dream] Reference

He ended; and clung clasping our knees and grovelling at them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

The highest advice I have heard on these subjects was grovelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference

He will paint her as Circe, mocking at her grovelling herd of swine!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncanny Tales] Reference

"Yes, yes, I am Kano Indara," said the artist, almost grovelling on the stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Painter] Reference

At Ayudah I found the natives addicted to a very grovelling species of idolatry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

He stands scornfully erect amid the grovelling influences that would pull him down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference

She bends to grasp his hands and raise him from the grovelling adoration to her own level.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

It proves the Farnham blood in your veins, always sighing and grovelling after low objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

But Tzaritza had crawled to Peggy's feet and was literally grovelling there in abject misery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference

Ocean! tame is the soul that loves not thee! grovelling the mind that scorns the joys thou impartest!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

With every limb strained and distorted, the miners pursue their cramping labours, grovelling on the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

Shall the soaring soul of a three-volumer be restrained by the debasing fetters of a grovelling exactitude?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891] Reference

It is to have faculties exalted beyond the comprehension of the multitude; to soar above the grovelling world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference

Pleading guilty in front of a Texas judge in February 2008, the British bankers delivered grovelling apologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [NatWest Three claim guilty plea was extracted under duress] Reference

The Adoee is found, but always keeps at the bottom, the structure of its mouth pointing out its grovelling habits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

The heart of man has been made for something higher and more noble than these grovelling objects of sense and time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference

After the perplexing, and often low, grovelling duties of my profession, it was like sitting at the gate of heaven.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference

"Shame on Cameron for this reprehensible stab in Israel's back and his grovelling before the Islamist Turks," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cameron Gaza 'prison camp' comments divides conservatives] Reference

What were we there but grovelling vassals, and what hope had we ever to be independent, or to own even a house in which to die?.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Cuthbert's] Reference

Englishmen as an emanation and a proof of the most grovelling malignity, not less despicably silly than shamelessly calumnious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference

Lola's success was assured; and Herr Frays, who had started by refusing to let her appear, was now full of grovelling apologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

Red Knight smote Gareth on the hand that his sword flew from his grasp, and with another blow he brought him grovelling to the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion] Reference

Suddenly Sir Marhaus rose grovelling, and threw his sword and his shield from him, and so ran to his ships and fled his way, sore groaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference

The others met his grief with muttered curses, and one of them spurned the grovelling creature with his foot, showering fierce reproaches upon his carelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

But the sleek Puritan, at once grovelling and presumptuous, mingles with his sanguinary mood all the morbid sickly conceit, all the crawling affected humility of the conventicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference