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
I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.
From How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition by Abbott, Edwin Abbott
Do not fawn upon me little man, I am too old to want women or money.
From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward
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
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
