Lexicographical Neighbors of Grovelingly
Literary usage of Grovelingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"... the sort who would render stolid, narrow-eyed regard, and move grovelingly to
her approach, for the sake of them. She gave simply what they came for, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"Hardly had they left the wharf, however, when he threw up the sponge, — and
several other things, — and even grovelingly implored the captain to stop ..."
3. Sea and Bay: A Poem of New England by Charles Wharton Stork (1916)
"... till spurred and checked, I yielded to her weakly, grovelingly, Owning myself
no match; whether she willed To keep me off, or with more mad caprice no ..."
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