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
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
For there were plenty to fawn upon him and tell him he was quite right.
From My New Curate by Sheehan, Patrick Augustine
How long did I not fawn upon you, from the proud patrician down to the shoemaker and the pepper-seller, around whose necks you hang the magisterial insignia, like halters around asses?
From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry
Children adore her, dogs fawn upon her, young men bring to her all their troubles,—the evil behavior of their tailors and their mistresses are alike laid before her.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
