grovellings

Nothing rewarded their grovellings except a few twigs, snapped or chopped into very small lengths, which Valentin lifted for an instant's examination and then tossed away.

The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

Tiki-pu pulled off his cap and threw himself down on the floor with reverent grovellings.

The Blue Moon Laurence Housman 1912

Nothing rewarded their grovellings except a few twigs, snapped or chopped into very small lengths, which Valentin lifted for an instant's examination and then tossed away.

The Innocence of Father Brown: The Secret Garden Gilbert Keith 1911

Nothing rewarded their grovellings except a few twigs, snapped or chopped into very small lengths, which

The Innocence of Father Brown 1905

May this trumpet call to a greatness of soul in keeping with its greatness of power, supplant the voice of Dixon the hater, summoning men to grovellings in the valleys of a thousand years agone.

The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist Robert E. [Illustrator] Bell 1902

"And will he go to India?" she asked, with laudable mental grovellings in the mire of her own ignorance.

From One Generation to Another Henry Seton Merriman 1882

Why forget essential business only in order to attack a class of plutocrats whom we have made, and whom our society worships with odious grovellings?

The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871

It were hypercriticism, it were pseudo-philosophy to expect from the soul of high-toned genius the grovellings of a common mind.

Sanditon 1817

Nothing rewarded their grovellings except a few twigs, snapped or chopped into very small lengths, which Valentin lifted for an instant’s examination and then tossed away.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Nothing rewarded their grovellings except a few twigs, snapped or chopped into very small lengths, which Valentin lifted for an instant’s examination and then tossed away.

The Complete Father Brown 2003