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
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
He painted a portrait of Marco Dolce, and when the picture was sent home, his dogs began to fawn upon it, mistaking it for their master.
From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub
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
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
