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
How mean it shews, to fawn upon the victor!
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Scott, Walter, Sir
If they only knew, what sycophants would fawn upon him!
From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Fuhr, Ernest
He could have had half the town at his rooms to fawn upon him if he had cared for that sort of thing.
From Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Conrad, Joseph
Carry his lap-dogs; fondle his cats; fawn upon his spaniels: what care I?
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by De Quincey, Thomas
