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
Mr. Pickwick, who came to fawn upon him, the same being his doggish custom of a morning, found Richard tolerant but abstracted.
From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry
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
I would not fawn upon the hand that smote; I would not cringe beneath its cruel blow, Nor even let her know I cared for it.
From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox
