of Grovel
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do. William Makepeace Thackeray
We had "suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that Nature renders." We had reached the naked soul of man. Ernest Shackleton