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
It was his policy to fawn upon all and never permit himself to think that an insult was intended.
From The Girl of the Golden West by Belasco, David
They should recollect that literature may fawn upon the masses as well as on the aristocracy: and in these days the temptation is in the former direction.
From The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed by Helps, Arthur, Sir
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
