fawn upon
Example Sentences
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Why do the hotelkeeper, the banker and the lawyer first fawn upon him, then try to threaten and bully him out of town?
From Time Magazine Archive
Marie Antoinette was beginning to realise that all France did not fawn upon her with the courtier's bended shoulder or pretty speech.
From Vigée Le Brun by MacFall, Haldane
Do not fawn upon me little man, I am too old to want women or money.
From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward
With this the young courageous child sprang on the bridge, and quickly passed the little dog, who immediately ceased his barking to fawn upon her.
From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig
They fawn upon me, all the lusts of the world, Bewildering my steps with straining close, And breathe their horrible spittle against me.
From Emblems Of Love by Abercrombie, Lascelles
