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Such theories, if carried into practice, would reduce us to a nation of political dwarfs and puny drivellers, fit only to grovel at the footstools of tyrants." "I could better bear an insult to our flag than a deathblow to our nationality. And I feel that our nationality would not survive a struggle between the sections.
Will you grovel on in poverty the worst of all poverty, the gentleman's pittance? or will you make yourself possessor of the wealth which your uncle Oswald bequeathed to others? Look me in the face, Reginald, as you are a man, and answer me, Which is it to be wealth or poverty?" "It is too late to answer poverty," replied the baronet, in a gloomy and sullen tone.
Then you feel in your boots. You make everybody near you stand up to see if they are sitting upon it, and you go down on your knees and grovel for it under the seat. "You didn't throw it out of the window with your sandwiches, did you?" asks your friend. "No! Do you think I'm a fool?" you answer, irritably. "What should I want to do that for?"
An artist might grovel in this room grovel with delight!" "Well, go back and grovel over the dragons," exclaimed Susy, giving her friend a playful poke. Antonia hurried to obey. Her work instantly absorbed her; she saw nothing else. "Isn't she killing?" exclaimed Susy, addressing poor surprised Mrs. Lorrimer. "She's to be a sort of sister to Hester in the future; she's to live at the Grange.
"Why," I panted, "what do you mean?" "What do I mean? Why, you have hounded me about this city until I'm crazy. There's no place I can go to escape you. You come to my office, you come here, you come to my club! You have made yourself a perfect pest at the publishers to every one! Why " He stopped out of breath. Of course I have no courage or head with men I was ready to grovel at his feet.
This soft, sweet little white-robed thing that kneels on my knee, with its arms around my neck, lisping its Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child! Pity my simplicity! Suffer me to come to Thee! shames me by its very sublimity. It outstrips me, transcends me, and leaves me far behind. It soars whilst I grovel; it flies whilst I creep.
Or is he bound to howl and grovel on all fours because of the wholly unquestionable fact, that he was once an egg, which no ordinary power of discrimination could distinguish from that of a Dog?
As if it felt its insignificance, and dreaded to be arrested in some lower phase of its development, its instinct for obedience becomes almost a passion. As the vine must twine or grovel, so the child comes unconsciously to worship idols, and imitates bad patterns and examples in the absence of worthy ones.
Scamp, on the other hand, would hold it in his mouth for a moment till he had savoured it, then place it meekly on the floor, bow his head to the ground, and grovel flat with deprecatory white-eyed up-glances, and as clearly as dog could say, would murmur, "Oh, Man, Lord of all that go on four legs, forgive thy humble little servant in that he is unable with enjoyment to eat that thou hast of thy bounty tendered him!
The family had again fallen on evil days, and when the father died, his all went 'among the hell-hounds that grovel in the kennel of justice. This was no time for poetry, and Robert was too much of a man to think merely of his own aims and ambitions in such a crisis.
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