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Definition of Grovelers
1. groveler [n] - See also: groveler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grovelers
Literary usage of Grovelers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bertrams: A Novel by Anthony Trollope (1859)
"I don't like grovelers myself. I like men who can keep their heads up—who, ...
These are not grovelers. If I were you I would be one of them. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"Not so your mushrooms and other grovelers of the vegetable kingdom, which, having
no green about them, refuse to accept the cast-off products of the animal ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1817)
"... high above the stir and clamour of grovelers and earthly-minded multitudes,
inebriated with mean ..."
4. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"As to the clouds upon it, they must be mere grovelers of clouds, very much addicted
to low company, to hover so much about it: mountain indeed ! ..."
5. Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical by George Ellis (1845)
"... Whilst thou'rt but man turn'd groveling ant, Such grovelers seem but ants
turn'd men. Extempore in praise of drinking Wine. THE fountains drink caves ..."
6. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry Brewster Stanton (1849)
"... and oppression, made the grovelers at the footstool of power hide with fear
and shame. He was a statesman of the broadest and most liberal views. ..."
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